20th c critics

Welch

All art is the product of the society in which it was made

Tarkovsky

art is never created in a vacuum

Appolinaire (coined term Orphism) 1

The subject no longer counts

Appolinaire 2

If painters still observe nature, they no longer imitate it

Appolinaire 3

An entirely new art is thus being evolved

Kirchner 1

The light of the modern city together with the movement of the streets, continuously gives me a fresh stimulus

Kirchner 2 (Die Brucke manifesto)

We want to wrest freedom for our actions and our lives from the older, comfortably established forces

Kirchner 3 [the painter creates]

A new appearance of things

Hegel

Zietgeist/ man has broken with the old order of things

Nietzche

The old truths are coming to an end

Picasso (discovered in African masks)

What painting was all about

Gus Casely-Hayford (director of National Museum of African Art)

[primitivism] gives birth to the idea of modernity

Gaugin

The abominable error of naturalism

Bergson

Time is an invention and nothing else

Brancusi 1

What they call abstract is what is most realistic

Brancusi 2

The essence of things

Brancusi 3 (base)

Just as it is/ the look of an amputation

Matisse 1

Exactitude is not truth

Matisse 2

A means of soothing the soul

TJ Clark MMIH

The hat is far from being an innocent symbol

Duchamp 1 (coined term ‘readymades’)

Create a new thought for that object

Duchamp

Art is either plagiarism or revolution

Laurens

A statue that isn’t polychromed is affected by the alterations of light and shade on it and changes all the time

Dali 1

My father Freud

Dali 2

Surrealism is destructive

Dali 3

Today, the exterior world and that of physics has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg

Breton (founder of Surrealism)

Pure psychic automatism

Gropius (founder of Bauhaus 1919 and architect of Bauhaus building)

The new building of the future that will bring all into one simple integrated creation

Marinetti

The World’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed

Loos

Ornament is crime

Le Corbusier

The house should be a machine for living in

Jonathon Jones

Whatever else he is, Dali is Spain’s landscape artist