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

Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

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

Gerrit Dou, Self-Portrait (1650).

Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) 1913

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..."

Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation No. 191911

Jackson Pollock. Full Fathom Five. 1947

includes bits of materials from his studio

ie wood bits, bottle caps etc

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

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."

Pollock, Going West (1934-5).

Thomas Hart Benton, Hailstorm (1940

Jackson Pollock, Mural (1943).

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."-

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

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

colonial roots

deeply inspired by african tribal masks

african art and cubism

Tthe tempest

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

Malevich's Black Square

Gabo's Space Construction

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

Gabo's Space Construction

Malevich's Black Square