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Leading up to Abstraction. 19 th Century push for modernism. Avante-garde Post-impressionists Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh & Gauguin Rejected the past and trangressed boundaries of conventional artistic practice. Realism- painting of modern life Impressionism & Haussmanization of Paris - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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LEADING UP TO ABSTRACTION
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19TH CENTURY PUSH FOR MODERNISM Avante-garde
Post-impressionists Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh & Gauguin Rejected the past and trangressed boundaries of
conventional artistic practice. Realism- painting of modern life Impressionism & Haussmanization of Paris Abstract Art
Expressive patterns of line, shape, and pure color
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GUSTAVE COURBET Leading figure of Realism Confusion about what “realism” is
Only things of one’s own time are “real” Focus on experiences & sights of everyday life Disapprove of traditional & fictional subjects
because they were not of the present world Realists were able to focus on the world
around them. Subject matter that had been deemed unworthy of depiction until then
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COURBET- REALISM To be able to translate the customs, ideas,
and appearances of my time as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim … The art of painting can consist only in the representation of objects visible and tangible to the painter…, who must apply his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives …
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COURBET - REALISM I hold also that painting is an essentially
concrete art, and can consist only of the representation of things both real and existing … An abstract object, invisible or nonexistent, does not belong to the domain of painting … Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.
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REALISM ART – COURBET & MILLET
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RUE TRANSNONAIN -DAUMIER
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THE THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGE - DAUMIER
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MANET (1863) VSPICASSO (1907)
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HAUSSMANIZATION Transformation of medieval Paris into the
present modern city (began in 1852) New:
Street lights Water & sewer systems Residential & commercial buildings Avenues Paris
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IMPRESSIONISM Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the
contingent-- Charles Baudelaire
An attempt to capture a fleeting moment, through conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.
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IMPRESSION: SUNRISE -- MONET
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VAN GOGH
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INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF ABSTRACTION
Gauguin Turns traditional & Impressionable paintings into
abstract primitivism
Paul Cézanne Geometric shapes
Kandinsky & Malevich Abstract paintings
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PAUL GAUGUIN Experiment to transform (use of color) Search for provocative subjects Moves to Tahiti Fascination with primitive life and brilliant
color
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GAUGUIN
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PAUL CÉZANNE - PROPHET OF ABSTRACTION Precursor of Cubism Rejected Impressionism
Thought its depiction of nature lacked substance and weight
Sought a new way to portray nature and reveal its underlying solidity & order
Concluded nature was composed of geometric shapes
Opened up a new way of painting
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CÉZANNE – GEOMETRIC SHAPES
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KANDINSKY VS MALEVICH Kandinsky
Experimental artist-imprecise visual goals, trial & error, innovations appear gradually
Woe to the artist whose reason interferes with his “inner dictates” while he is working.
Malevich Conceptual innovator-use art to express ideas &
emotions, planned paintings, appear as sudden innovators
The new complexity in the modern development of art, the necessity for the conscious use of scientific geometric methods become clear in the creation of a system of movement for new classical structures.
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KANDINSKY VS MALEVICH Kandinsky
Dreamed of abstract art that would originate in nature
“Woe betide him who relies on mathematics - on reason.”
Compared to Cézanne Malevich
Dreamed of abstract art that rejected nature, instead through mathematics as a systematic approach
“Nowhere in the world of painting does anything grow without a system.”
Compared to Picasso Founder of Suprematism
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KANDINSKY VS MALEVICH