CKC Art Grade 7
Early Abstraction and Expressionism
Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968
Duchamp took the
traditional Cubist idea,
“one moment, many
views” and warped it,
creating “one view,
many moments.”
Marcel Duchamp,
Nude Descending a
Staircase, #2
1912
Marcel Duchamp
Sad Young Man
in a Train
1912
Marcel Duchamp
Readymade: Bicycle
Wheel
1913
Marcel Duchamp
Ready-made: Bottle Rack
1914
Duchamp’s “Fountain,” exhibited at the Society for
Independent Artists Exhibition in 1917.
Signed “R. Mutt.”
Marc Chagall
Russian born, worked in France
(1887-1986)
Marc Chagall
I and the
Village
1911
Marc Chagall, Birthday, 1915
L’Apparition
1917-18
Marc Chagall
Liberation
1937-53
Wassily
Kandinsky
Russian (1866-1944)
Improvisation 31
(Sea Battle)
1913
Wassily Kandinsky. Improvisation 26 (Oars). 1912
Composition VII
1913
Composition VIII
1923
Accent en Rose
1926
Composition IX
1939
Composition X
1939
Edvard Munch
Norwegian (1863-1949)
Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893
Edvard Munch
Anxiety
1896
Edvard Munch
Death in the
Sickroom
1895
Edvard Munch
The Dance of Life, 1899
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
German,
born in Switzerland.
Paul Klee
Senecio, 1922.
Paul Klee
Red Balloon, 1922.
Heroic Roses
1922
"Flora am Feld" - (1940)
Siblings - (1930)
Paul Klee is known for his off-beat sense of humor and the
deceptively child-like nature of his art.
He once wrote, "I want to be as though newborn, to be
almost primitive."
Working more and more child-like with paint, he eventually
moved into a kind of painting that was solely about color,
shape and texture.
Piet Mondrian
Holland (Dutch)
Piet Mondrian, Red Trees, 1908
Piet Mondrian, The Tree, 1908
Piet Mondrian, The Red Tree
1909
Piet Mondrian, Gray Tree
1911
The Flowering Apple, 1912
Piet Mondrian
Trees
1912
Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1913
Piet Mondrian
Composition in Brown
and Gray
1913-14
Ocean and Pier #5, 1915
De Stijl - “The Style” in Dutch: An art movement that
began in 1917 advocating pure abstraction and
simplicity -- forms reduced to the rectangle and other
geometric shapes, and color to the primary colors,
along with black and white.
Piet Mondrian was the group's leading figure. He
maintained that art should not concern itself with
reproducing images of real objects, but should express
only the universal absolutes that underlie reality.
Piet Mondrian
Composition with
Gray and Light
Brown
1918
Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines, 1918
Piet Mondrian
Composition A:
Black, Red, Gray,
Yellow, and Blue
1920
Piet Mondrian,
Composition, 1921
Mondrian’s mature technique was based on intuition
but carried through with meticulous care.
The composition was first drafted with charcoal on
paper or canvas.
Painted pieces of paper and strips of tape pinned and
tacked to the canvas in a complex collage were used
until the final composition was achieved.
They were then laboriously removed and replaced
with non-textural oil paint to complete the work.
Tableau No. IV; Lozenge
Composition with Red,
Gray, Blue, Yellow, and
Black
1924-25
Lozenge Composition
with Yellow, Black, Blue,
Red, and Gray"
1921
Piet Mondrian
Place de la Concorde
1938-1943
Piet Mondrian
Broadway
Boogie-Woogie
1942-43
Rietveld-Schroder House, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mondrian – Red, Blue, Yellow Chair
Robe "Mondrian", par Yves Saint-Laurent (1967)
Henri Matisse
French (1869-1954)
Dinner Table. 1897
Henri Matisse
Studio under the
Eaves.
1903
(mostly tints and
shades of lowintensity colors)
Fauvism is style of painting that
flourished in France from 1898 to 1908.
It used pure, brilliant color, applied straight
from the paint tubes in an aggressive, direct
manner to create a sense of an explosion on
the canvas.
An art critic coined the term “Les Fauves”
or “Wild Beasts” in referring to this group
of artists and their wild, reckless use of
intense color.
Green Stripe
(Madame Matisse)
1905
Andre Derain
Portrait of Henri
Matisse
1905
Henri Matisse
Open Window,
Collioure.
1905
Henri Matisse, Interior at Collioure. 1905
Henri Matisse
Seated Riffian
1912
Harmony in Red, La Desserte
1908
Matisse's Fauvist years were superseded by
an experimental period, as he abandoned
three-dimensional effects in favor of
dramatically simplified areas of pure color,
flat shape, and strong pattern.
Henri Matisse, The Dance , 1909
Henri Matisse, The Dance II, 1910
Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911
The Goldfish
1912
La Musique
1939
Icarus (Jazz)
1943-44
Henri Matisse, Polynesia, the Sea, 1946