Week 9 (Nov. 13–19) Modern and Contemporary Art: What is Abstract?

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Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

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Domenico Veneziano Annunciation (predella panel from the St. Lucy Altarpiece)c. 1442-1445

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Gerrit Dou, Self-Portrait (1650).

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Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) 1913

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Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) 1913."

This picture is nearly in the shape of across. The centre-somewhat below themiddle-is formed by a large, irregular blueplane. Below the centre there is a muddy-grey, ragged second centre almost equal inimportance to the first one..."

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Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation No. 191911

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Jackson Pollock. Full Fathom Five. 1947

includes bits of materials from his studio

ie wood bits, bottle caps etc

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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

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jackson pollock describing his technique

On the floor I am more at ease. Ifeel nearer, more a part of thepainting, sine this way I can walkaround it, work from the foursides, and literally be in thepainting...When I am in mypainting, I'm not aware of whatI'm doing."

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Pollock, Going West (1934-5).

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Thomas Hart Benton, Hailstorm (1940

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12

Jackson Pollock, Mural (1943).

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Jackson Pollock

It's a stampede. Every animal in the American West,cows and horses and antelopes and buffaloes.Everything is charging across that gddamn surface."-

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14

Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891).

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Henri Rousseau, The Hungry Lion Throws itself on the Antelope (1905)

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colonial roots

deeply inspired by african tribal masks

african art and cubism

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17

Tthe tempest

To which of the following is Pollock’s Full Fathom Five an allusion?

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Malevich's Black Square

Gabo's Space Construction

According to Alfred Barr, which of the following works are "pure abstractions?

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Gabo's Space Construction

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Malevich's Black Square

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