Week 15: Expressionism Cubism

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Primitivism & Modern Art

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  • 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

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The “noble savage”

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  • 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

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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 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

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Expressionism

  • art that seems to emphasize emotional impact, descriptive accuracy

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Fauvism:

  • scenes of everyday life

  • bold distinct color

  • artists goal to invoke intense emotion

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<p>Open Window, Collioure </p>

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

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<p>Picaso: Les Demoiselles d’Avigon</p>

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

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<p><span>Studies for Les Demoiselles D’Avignon</span></p>

Studies for Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

  • originallly had sailor looking for workers

  • then college student

  • no man in final

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<p><span>Picasso, The Old Guitarist</span><br></p>

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

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Analytic Cubism

  • Analytic: taking something apart, analyzing the parts of something


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<p><span><br>Pitcher and Violin</span></p>


Pitcher and Violin

  • look at the violin from multiple perspectives

  • combining it somehow

  • combining it somehow renders the whole piece

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<p><span> Guernica</span></p>

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

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Synthetic Cubism

  • combinines the abstracted forms of Analytic Cubism with color, collage, and even sometimes naturalistic representations, to create a
    complex whole