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LEADING UP TO ABSTRACTION
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
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
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 …
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.
REALISM ART – COURBET & MILLET
RUE TRANSNONAIN -DAUMIER
THE THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGE - DAUMIER
MANET (1863) VSPICASSO (1907)
HAUSSMANIZATION
Transformation of medieval Paris into the present modern city (began in 1852)
New: Street lights Water & sewer systems Residential & commercial buildings Avenues Paris
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.
IMPRESSION: SUNRISE -- MONET
VAN GOGH
INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF ABSTRACTION
Gauguin Turns traditional & Impressionable paintings into
abstract primitivism
Paul Cézanne Geometric shapes
Kandinsky & Malevich Abstract paintings
PAUL GAUGUIN
Experiment to transform (use of color) Search for provocative subjects Moves to Tahiti Fascination with primitive life and brilliant
color
GAUGUIN
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
CÉZANNE – GEOMETRIC SHAPES
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.
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
KANDINSKY VS MALEVICH