2. 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.”
4. IS ABSTRACT ART ROOTED
IN REPRESENTATION…OR
IS IT PURE?
WHO DO YOU THINK MARCEL
DUCHAMP WOULD AGREE WITH?
KANDINSKY
PICASSO
5. ABSTRACT ART
PABLO PICASSO WASSILY KANDINSKY
“There is no abstract art.
You must always start with "Must we not then
something … even if the renounce the object
canvas is green—so what? In altogether, throw it to the
that case, the subject matter winds and instead lay bare
is greenness!” the purely abstract?"
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.”
6.
7. Piet
Mondrian
“Every true artist has been
inspired more by the beauty
of lines and color and the
relationships between them
Composition of Red,than by the concrete
Blue, Yellow, and subject of the picture.”
White: Nom II
(1939)
8. Piet
Mondrian
Back when it was known as the
“toothbrush moustache”
After seeing original Cubist works by
Georges Braque and Pablo
Picasso at the first Moderne
Kunstkring exhibition in 1911 in
Amsterdam, Mondrian decided to
Composition of Red,move to Paris. There, from 1912 to
Blue, Yellow, and 1914, he began to develop an
White: Nom II independent abstract style, that we
(1939) know today.
9. But he wasn’t always painting “abstract” art…
He used to make very representational paintings…
Avond (Evening): The Red Tree
1908-1910
11. How is this style
changing?
How would you
describe this
change?
Trees (1912)
12. How is this style
changing?
How would you
describe this
change?
Tableau no.
2/Composition no. VII
(1913)
13. How is this style
changing?
How would you
describe this
change?
Composition with Grey
and Light Brown (1918)
14. Piet Mondrian
Evolution of the art
Avond (Evening): Grey Tree (1911) Composition No. 12
The Red Tree (1908- Tableau no. with Blue, (1936-
Trees (1912) 2/Composition no. VII
1910 ) 1942)
(1913)
How would you describe this change?
18. Why do painters ALMOST ALWAYS make their artwork on an ordinary recta-
linear canvas?
Why would an artist choose to change this?
19. “The emotion of
beauty is always
obscured by the
appearance of
the object.
Therefore the
object must be
eliminated from
the picture.”
-Piet Mondrian
Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1943)
20. INFLUENCE INSPIRATION
one person’s effect on feeling moved to create. a
another flash of inspiration
COLLABORATIO
N
people working together to COLLECTIVE
create something a group of people all
belonging to something
27. Pablo Picasso
Evolution of his art
Still life with Liqueur Still life with a Bottle
Woman Ironing Woman Plaiting her Bottle of Rum
(1904) Hair (1906) (1909) (1911)
Meets Georges Braque
(1907)
28. “I believe my
picture is only
finished when the Georges
original idea is
completely
extinguished.”
Braque
“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.”
My shower curtain looks a lot like the ptg on the right, this could be a good Sophie Tauber-Arp tie-in…
My shower curtain looks a lot like the ptg on the right, this could be a good Sophie Tauber-Arp tie-in…
From guggenheim.org
From guggenheim.org
Might not need to show this today, I may not get to Cezanne, I think this will just get in the way. Perhaps bring this in AFTER you’ve shown his progression to abstraction…build up that idea that he’s slowly deconstructing the forms of our world…then bring in a counterclaim that “well,….he was also kind of lying and trying to create this IDEA of how he ‘discovered’ this type of deconstruction. Added, if this is true…what dates did he say they were from vs when tehy were really made?
Get some “ quote” thingies in there! Great quote though./
