Primitivism & Modern Art
Primitivism in art involves the appreciation & imitation
derogatory, don’t call non-European art primitive
European artists inspired by African and Asian artist, yet still saw it as less than
The “noble savage”
character who may lack education, technology, and cultural refinement
but lives according to universal natural law and so is inherently moral and good
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Primitivism & Modern Art
Primitivism in art involves the appreciation & imitation
derogatory, don’t call non-European art primitive
European artists inspired by African and Asian artist, yet still saw it as less than
The “noble savage”
character who may lack education, technology, and cultural refinement
but lives according to universal natural law and so is inherently moral and good
Primitivism and Colonialism
late 19th century and 30th century
human zoos in which ethnic “specimens” would enact their cultural practices for spectators
aimed to show how more “advanced” Europeans are
framing other cultures as primitive
based images on words from travelers
Expressionism
art that seems to emphasize emotional impact, descriptive accuracy
Fauvism:
scenes of everyday life
bold distinct color
artists goal to invoke intense emotion
Open Window, Collioure
I room, looking out at a harbor with boats
thick brush work
no differentiation between outside and inside
no sense of 3rd dimension
complementary colors
expressionist vs. impressionist
looks like a memory rather than looking at it currently
Picaso: Les Demoiselles d’Avigon
cubism
from Spain, lived in Paris (at the time, art capital)
bodies so abstract that they became geometric shapes
looks like a college
breaking illusionism
culture appropriation
He had a collection of African mask
mask were looted
iberian /archaic sculpture
not giving credit
5 women are sex workers
Studies for Les Demoiselles D’Avignon
originallly had sailor looking for workers
then college student
no man in final
Picasso, The Old Guitarist
came from family of artists
pink + blue period cubeism
blue was poor, symbol for lower class
similar to expressionists using color to show motion
Analytic Cubism
Analytic: taking something apart, analyzing the parts of something
Pitcher and Violin
look at the violin from multiple perspectives
combining it somehow
combining it somehow renders the whole piece
Guernica
Spanish Civil War in 1937
he saw death and made a statement on tension
large, monochromatic
city was bombed by Nazi
showing mom mourning
suffering of animals + human beings
Synthetic Cubism
combinines the abstracted forms of Analytic Cubism with color, collage, and even sometimes naturalistic representations, to create a
complex whole