Marcel Duchamp

“Eroticism is close to life…

…closer than philosophy, or anything like that, it’s an animal thing that has many facets….

….and it is pleasing to use, as you would use a tube of paint.”

Marcel DuchampThe Passage from Virgin to Bride (1912)

IS ABSTRACT ART ROOTED IN REPRESENTATION…OR

IS IT PURE?

WHO DO YOU THINK MARCEL DUCHAMP WOULD AGREE WITH?

PICASSOKANDINSKY

ABSTRACT ART

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something … even if the canvas is green—so what? In that case, the subject matter is greenness!”

PABLO PICASSO

3RD PERIOD ART HISTORY STUDENTS“Abstract art has very few ties to reality”

“It doesn’t have to make sense!” “There are as many different interpretations as

there are people to look at it.”

"Must we not then renounce the object altogether, throw it to the winds and instead lay bare the purely abstract?"

WASSILY KANDINSKY

PietMondrian

Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow, and White: Nom II(1939)

“Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.”

PietMondrian

Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow, and White: Nom II(1939)

 After seeing original Cubist works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the first Moderne Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 in Amsterdam, Mondrian decided to move to Paris. There, from 1912 to 1914, he began to develop an independent abstract style, that we know today.

Back when it was known as the “toothbrush moustache”

Avond (Evening): The Red Tree 1908-1910

But he wasn’t always painting “abstract” art…He used to make very representational paintings…

Grey Tree (1911)

Trees (1912)

How is this style changing?

How would you describe this change?

Tableau no. 2/Composition no. VII (1913)

How is this style changing?

How would you describe this change?

Composition with Grey and Light Brown (1918)

How is this style changing?

How would you describe this change?

Piet MondrianEvolution of the art

How would you describe this change?

Tableau no. 2/Composition no. VII (1913)

Trees (1912)

Grey Tree (1911)Avond (Evening): The Red Tree (1908-1910 )

Composition No. 12 with Blue, (1936-1942)

Piet MondrianEvolution of the

moustache

Beginnings...

Amarylis (1910)

Dying Chrysanthemum (1908)

Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black (1924-1925)

Why do painters ALMOST ALWAYS make their artwork on an ordinary recta-linear canvas?

Why would an artist choose to change this?

Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1943)

“The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object.

Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture.”-Piet Mondrian

COLLABORATION people working together to create something

COLLECTIVEa group of people all

belonging to something

INSPIRATIONfeeling moved to create.

a flash of inspiration

INFLUENCE one person’s effect

on another

WHO’S THAT

ARTIST?

Diego RiveraYoung Man in a Gray Sweater (1912)

WHO’S THAT

ARTIST?

Pablo PicassoFemme à la mandoline(Woman with mandolin)(1910)

WHO’S THAT

ARTIST?

Georges BraqueViolin and candlestick(1909)

Pablo PicassoEvolution of his art

Still life with a Bottle of Rum

(1911)

Woman Ironing(1904)

Woman Plaiting her Hair (1906)

Still life with Liqueur Bottle

(1909)Meets Georges Braque

(1907)

Georges Braque

“I believe my picture is only finished when the original idea is completely extinguished.”

“Objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909.

this for me was a way of getting closest to the object…Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.”

Georges Braque

House behind trees(1906)

Georges Braque

Man with guitar(1911)

Georges Braque

Soda(1912)

Bowl of grapes (1926)

Georges BraqueEvolution of his art

House Behind Trees (1906)

Soda (1912)Man with guitar (1911) Bowl of grapes (1926)

Paul Cezanne

Bibémus

(1894)