Art 150 Midterm

Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1863 

Modernist,

Painted on woman, collaged,

tipping of ground upward

tumbling man, basket of fruit tipping

linear perspective not followed (woman in middle)

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Plaster Cupid,1889 

Modernist

Tipping up of ground

everything pulled to side

call attention to 4 sides

Paul Cézanne, Basket of Apples, 1893 

Modernist

multiple views

table at different perspectives, tablecloth showing break in perspective, games

breaking representational space

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 

Modernist

no world in painting

no interior space

ground tippled full 90 degrees

flattness

multiple views at same time

reclining nudes, standing, etc.

Pablo Picasso, Violin, 1912

Modernism

comparison to rauschenburg

collage vs Combine

Norman Lewis, Twilight Sounds, 1947

Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1952 Doss, 136-137

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, Number 30, 1950  

closed out space from Picasso

paint on canvas

3 essential elements of painting

only surface, fluid medium

congestion of paint, gap from edge, literal canvas

not physical illusionism, optical illusionism

Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, 1959

Modernist

Think Fried

Lines relate to one another

Reverb of edge and literal shape

Painting Base Components (Greenberg)

Flat

Paint

4 sides

Modernism (Greenberg)

Paintings will continue to remove from itself that is not unique to painting. Removing narrative, linear perspective, 3 Dimension

Rauschenberg, Rebus, 1955

Combine

Time based perception

Defies Greenberg modernist rules, includes narrative, language

Collapse painting into linguistic arts

Photograph as language

Rauschenberg, Allegory, 1960

Includes 3D arts

Syntax

Sculpture in painting

Difference in 3d from renaissance

Nonlinear perspective

Umbrella as flat and 3D

Robert Morris’s, Three L Beams, 1965

Sculpture

tony Smith, Die, 1962

Post Modernism

Matthew Kenyon and Douglas Easterly, Notepad, 2007

Post Modernism, Social Minimalism

Design for Social Change and activism

Morris Louis, Saraband, 1959

Held Frankenthaler, Canal, 1963

Ken Nolan’s, Trans Shift, 1964

Anthony Carl, Midday,1960