Graphic Abstraction and Music
Audio: Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
Image: Mondrian The Flowering Apple Tree (1912)
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Debussy (1862-1918) L'Apres-midi d'un Faune (1894)
Frontispiece for L'après-midi dún
faune, drawing by Édouard Manet. These nymphs that I would perpetuate:
so clear
And light, their carnation, that it floats in the air
Heavy with leafy slumbers.
Did I love a dream?
My doubt, night's ancient hoard, pursues its theme
In branching labyrinths, which being still
The veritable woods themselves, alas, reveal
Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer.
My triumph as the ideal fault of roses.
Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer. Si clair, Consider...
Leur incarnat léger, quʼil voltige dans lʼair
Assoupi de sommeils touffus.
Assoupi de sommeils touffus. Aimai-je un rêve ?
Mon doute, amas de nuit ancienne, sʼachève
En maint rameau subtil, qui, demeuré les vrais
Bois mêmes, prouve, hélas ! que bien seul je mʼoffrais
Pour triomphe la faute idéale de roses —
Réfléchissons…
Leon Bakst, Nijinsky in The Afternoon of a Faun
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Graphic Abstraction
Turner Sun Setting Over a Lake (1840)
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Graphic Abstraction
Turner Shade and Darkness - After the Deluge (1840)
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Turner Rain Steam and Speed (1844)
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Turner Procession of Boats with Distant Smoke, Venice (1844)
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Graphic Abstraction Impressionism
Monet Impression: Sunrise (1872)
“Seulement un oeil, mais quel oeil!” (Only an eye, but what an eye!)
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Monet The Studio-Boat (1874) (detail)
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Graphic Abstraction Impressionism
Manet Boating (1874) (detail)
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Graphic Abstraction Impressionism
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Girl with a Watering Can (1876)
"Why shouldn't art be
pretty? There are enough
unpleasant things in the
world."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Renoir Les Canotiers de Chatou (1879)
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Renoir The Lunching of the Boating Party (1881)
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Graphic Abstraction Impressionism
Degas Absinthe (1876)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Schoenberg String Quartet Op 10 (1905)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh The Starry Night (1889)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh Wheat Field (1889)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh Road with Cypress and Star (1890)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh Village Street with Stair and Figures (1890)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh Village Street in Auvers (1890)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Van Gogh Wheat Field under Threatening Skies (1890)
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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) The Scream (1893)
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Angst (1894)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
George Grosz La Ville (1916-17)
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
The Triumph of Death (c1562)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Kathe Kollwitz Self-Portrait (1923)
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Graphic Abstraction Expressionism
Gorge Grosz Suicide (1916)
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Mahler Symphony No 9 (1910) - 1. Andante comodo
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Graphic Abstraction Modernism
Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935)
• Russian painter, designer, and writer, with Mondrian the
most important pioneer of geometric abstract art.
• By 1912 he was painting peasant subjects in a massive
‘tubular’ style similar to that of Léger, as well as pictures
combining the fragmentation of form of Cubism with the
multiplication of the image of Futurism
• The Knife Grinder, 1912
• Desire ‘to free art from the burden of the object’.
• Devout Christian, with mystical leanings
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Graphic Abstraction Modernism
Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935)
• He thought he could “break through to a deeper level of
meaning and swim in the white free abyss”.
• First abstract work was a backdrop for the Futurist opera
Victory over the Sun, produced in the Luna Park Theatre, St
Petersburg, in December 1913; his original drawing shows a
rectangle divided almost diagonally into a black upper
segment and a white lower one.
• He claimed that he made a picture consisting of nothing more
than a black square on a white field as early as 1913, but it
was first made public in 1915 (there is often difficulty in dating
his work and in knowing which way up his paintings should be
hung, photographs of early exhibitions sometimes providing
conflicting evidence).
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Malevich Notes
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Over the next few years Malevich moved away from
absolute austerity, tilting rectangles from the
vertical, adding more colours, and introducing a
suggestion of the third dimension by overlapping
forms (Suprematist Composition, c.1915, Stedelijk
Mus., Amsterdam); there is sometimes even a degree
of painterly handling (Yellow Parallelogram on
White, c.1917, Stedelijk Museum).
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Malevich Notes
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Around 1918 he returned to his purest ideals with a
series of White on White paintings - a tilted white
square is placed on a background of the same colour,
the difference between them being visible only through
variations in the brushwork (Suprematist
Composition: White on White, c.1918, MoMA, New
York).
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After this he seems to have realised he could go no
further along this road and virtually gave up abstract
painting, turning more to teaching, writing, and making
three-dimensional models that were important in the
growth of Constructivism.
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Malevich Notes
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In 1919 he started teaching at the art school at
Vitebsk, where he exerted a profound influence on
Lissitzky, and in 1922 he moved to Petrograd
(Leningrad), where he lived for the rest of his life.
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He went to Warsaw and Berlin in 1927 and during this
trip he visited the Bauhaus.
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In the late 1920s he returned to figurative painting,
but he was out of favour with a political system that
now demanded Socialist Realism from its artists and
he ran into trouble with the authorities.
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Malevich Notes
• He remained a revered figure among artists and after his
death he lay in state at the Leningrad Artists' Union in a
coffin - which he had designed himself - bearing
Suprematist designs.
• In Cubism and Abstract Art (1936) Alfred H. Barr gave
the following assessment of his significance: “In the
history of abstract art Malevich is a figure of fundamental
importance...He stands at the heart of the movement
which swept westward from Russia after the war and,
mingling with the Dutch De Stijl group, transformed the
architecture, furniture, typography and commercial art of
Germany and much of the rest of Europe.”
"Malevich, Kasimir" The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Ed. Ian Chilvers.
Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
Stoke-on-Trent Libraries. 9 January 2007
<http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t2.e2174>
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Mother (1904)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
On the Boulevard (1903)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Apple Trees in Blossom (1904)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Flower Girl (1903)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Garden in Bloom (1904)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Landscape with Yellow House (1906)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Portrait of a Family Member (1906)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
River in the Forest (1908)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Self-Portrait (1908-9)
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Self-Portrait (1910-11)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Bather (1911)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Floor Polishers (1911-12)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Harvest (1911-12)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Head of Woodsman (1912)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Knife Grinder (1912)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Black Square (1913)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
Suprematist Painting (1917)
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Graphic Abstraction Malevich
White on White (1918)
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Graphic Abstraction Picasso
Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Graphic Abstraction Picasso
Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Picasso’s Bulls (1945)
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Graphic Abstraction Picasso and El Greco
Portrait of Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos (c.1600)/Portrait of a Painter after
El Greco (1950)
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Graphic Abstraction Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider
Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider
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Graphic Abstraction Webern
Concerto Op 24 (1934)
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Graphic Abstraction Mondrian
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Woods Near Oehle (1908)
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Red Tree (1908)
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The Gray Tree (1912)
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The Flowering Apple Tree (1912)
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Graphic Abstraction Mondrian
Composition No 3 (1912-13)
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Oval Composition (Trees) (1913)
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Oval Composition (1913-14)
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Composition No 6 (1914)
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Composition No 10 Pier and Ocean (1915)
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Composition with Lines (1917)
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Composition in Colour A (1917)
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Composition 3 with Colour Planes (1917)
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Colour Planes with Gray Contours (1918)
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Graphic Abstraction
Igor Stravinsky Agon (1957)
Miguel Covarrubias
(1904-1957)
[Igor Stravinsky]
published in Vanity Fair,
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay (1885-1941)
La flache de Notre-Dame (1909)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Eiffel Tower with Trees (Tour Eiffel aux arbres)
(1910)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Study after the Eiffel Tower (1911)
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Eiffel Tower (1911)
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Eiffel Tower (1911)
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The Red Tower (1911-12)
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Sun, Tower, Aeroplane (1913)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Les Tours de Laon (1910)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
The City of Paris (1913)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Window
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Simultaneous Windows (1912)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
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Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Windows Open Simultaneously 1st Part, 3rd Motif (Fenêtres ouvertes
simultanément 1ère partie, 3e motif) (1912)
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Window on the City No 4 (1912)
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Homage to Bleriot (1914)
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Marché au Minho (1916)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Helix (1923)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Electric Prism
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Circular Forms (1930)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Rhythm (1934)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Endless Rhythm (1934)
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Circular Forms (1930)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Joie de Vivre (1930)
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Graphic Abstraction Delaunay
Relief Rhythms (1932)
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Rhythm (1938)
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Saint-Séverin No.3 (1909)
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Links
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Norman MacLaren Begone Dull Care (1949)
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