IN PHOTOGRAPHY’S WAKE

ART 100UNDERSTANDING VISUAL CULTURE

MODULE 4.2

E.V. Day, Flesh for Fantasy, 2000Blow-up dolls, surgical wire, hooks

Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538Oil on canvas

Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787o/c, 51 x 77 ¼ inches, MET

Claude Monet, The Monet Family in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874, o/c, 24 x 39 ¼ inches, MET

Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, o/c, 51 x 77 ¼ inches, MET

Claude Monet, The Monet Family in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874 o/c, 24 x 39 ¼ inches, MET

Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1787o/c, 51 x 77 ¼ inches, MET

Claude Monet, The Monet Family in the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874, o/c, 24 x 39 ¼ inches, MET

"A picture, before being a war horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered by colors in a certain order.”

—Maurice Denis

Picasso, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, 1910

Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

Picasso, Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper, 1913,

Picasso, Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper, 1913

Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912

Duchamp, Bottle Rack, 1914

Duchamp, Tu M’, 1918

Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

Duchamp, Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics), 1925

Ferdinand Léger Woman with a Cat, 1921

Jean TinguelyHomage to New York, 1950

      “…if you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it, since we have this problem of doing it or not doing it. But then all of a sudden it was even more absurd not to do it. So I fear I have to follow my desires.”

—Willem de Kooning, in a 1962 radio interviewBorn in Holland, emigrated to the USWell-known abstract active 1940s-80s