Henri Matisse. Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life).
1905–1906.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Street, Berlin.
1913. 47 1/2 × 35 7/8‖.
Vassily Kandinsky. Improvisation 28 (Second Version).
1912. 43 7/8 × 63 7/8‖.
Analytic Cubism
Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. 1910.
Synthetic Cubism
Pablo Picasso. Glass and Bottle of Suze.1912.
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913
Russian: Cubo-Futurism, Seprematist
Kazmir Malevich, Seprematist Painting (8 red rectangles). 1915
COLLAGE and PHOTOMONTAGE
The first collage was created by Pablo Picasso in 1908 at the age of 26. He created
The Dream, which was an ink drawing on newsprint with a piece of paper from a
department store advertisement attached to the drawing with white gauche, on
the paper was another small drawing of a female fisherman. This was in essence
the first time anyone had used a found object from everyday life and attached it to
an artwork, thus the first collaged work.
Pablo Picasso: Bottle of Vieux Marc,
Glass, Guitar and Newspaper, 1913
Georges Braque: Violin and Pipe, 1913
Jean (Hans) Arp: Collage with Squares Arranged
According to the Laws of Chance. (1916-17)
Raoul Hausmann: ABCD, (self-portait), 1923-24
Hannah Hoch: Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife
through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural
Epoch in Germany, 1919
Robert Rauschenberg: Charlene, 1954
Richard Hamilton: Just What Is It that
Makes Today's Homes So Different, So
Appealing?, 1956
Alexander Rodchenko: 1920 & 1919
Hugo Ball performs Karawane, a sound poem based on pure sound and the unspoken
word. A critical avoidance of language, language spoiled by the lies and excesses of
journalism and advertising
Art should appeal to the mind
rather than the senses!
Marcel Duchamp’s
Fountain signed R. Mutt
from 1917 NYC
―Readymade‖ rejected for not
being art.
―The only works of art
America has ever given are
her plumbing and bridges.‖
Duchamp
―Whether Mr. Mutt with his
own hands made the fountain
or not has no importance. He
CHOSE it. He took an
ordinary article of life, placed
it so that its useful
significance disappeared
under the new title and point
of view—created a new
thought for that object.‖
El Lissitzky. Proun Space, 1923. (exhibition installation)
Piet Mondrian. Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, 1927.
Gerrit Rietveld. Red-Blue Chair for Schroder House, 1925.
Gerrit Rietveld. Schroder House, 1925.
Exam II Review: Take Next Week:
12 Points: Matching Terms
1. Les Fauves: ―Wild Beasts‖ French art movement used bright colors and contour lines,
expressive freedom
2. Die Bruke: ―The Birdge‖ German art movement, explored the contradictions between
progressive modern society and immoral primitivism in society.
3. Der Blaue Reiter: ―The Blue Rider‖ based on the Russian symbol of the Blue Knight. German
art movement started by Kandinsky, he wondered if painting could work without a subject, it
explored music as inspiration for improvising painted abstraction
4. Cubism: Picasso and Braque invented abstraction of objects and subjects of art
5. Synthetic Cubism: 3D-ish, collage, mixed-media art surfaces
6. Analytic Cubism: 2D used drawing materials on flat art surfaces
7. Futurism: Italian art movement based on modern machines, speed, masculinity, and violence.
They were against all things old, safe, and feminine.
8. Cubo-Futurism: Russian art movement based on Cubist abstracted shapes and bright forceful
Futurist styled compositions
9. Dada: European art movement, Hugo Ball & Tristan Tzara, Anti-WWI, anti-art, playful, fun,
absurd. Dada radically changed what art could be. It began new possibilities for art.
10. Constructivism: Russian art movement, inspired by Cubism and Kazimir Malevich abstraction.
It was an art and design movement that worked towards constructed abstraction in painting and
sculpture related to De Stijl.
11. De Stijl: ―The Style‖ Dutch art & design movement toward pure art based upon Piet Mondrian’s
paintings
12. Bauhaus: German architecture, art and design movement developed inspired by
Constructivism and De Stijl work. Function is more important than form—how things operate is
more important than how they look—the look of function can be nice looking!!!!
8 Points: Identify the Styles
There will be 8 artworks and you must label the styles of each.
10 Points: Essay
Discuss 2 artworks
What are the artist’s names.
What is the style being used?
Describe why this style is important.
Describe how the style was invented (was it a reaction to something?).