2/17/2017

Gustave Klimt
The Kiss (Lovers) Gustave Klimt
Gold in the background always represents eternity
Mom is a opera singer, dad is a goldsmith.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
Oprah owns the painting and sells it for 150 million

George Seurat
Young Woman Powdering Herself-George Seurat
Pointillism
Madeleine Knobloch
He loved her but parents HATED her. Seurat was and upper class family and
she was a lower class. Shame Shame.
Sunday Afternoon on the Island La Grande Jatte-Seurat-1884-1886
Important because it was one of the first times people had a day off. 7 day weeks
were common
Monkey?
Is this lady a mistress? Only a sunday afternoon lady?
Bathers on Asnieres (1884)
Parallels Sunday Afternoon
Working men and boys, no women. The poor side of the river.
Early painting of pollution

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Post Impressionist
Aristede Bruant at His Cabaret
Way to get you to spend money on a good time!
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (1881)
We know who all these people are
Moulin Rouge (1892)
Self-portrait in back of painting. The short guy
Can ID all these people too
Notice the mirrors. Look at yourself and others

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 Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Fauve
Only paints pleasure
The Joy of Life
Emotions
La Sardana circle dance in the back
Portrait of Madame Matisse
Green stripe? Not a bad thing.
The Chapel of the Rosary (Vence Chapel, Matisse Chapel)
Look at other pics for the midterm. Hes not using the stock photo
Irony of him creating this.
Spirituality. Joy in acknowledging a womans choice.
Madly in love with the nun. Poor guy. (But was actually honorable toward her. )
TDC: Total design concept. Such is my gratitude for how you restored me.
Picasso was pissed about this. Why didnt you design a brothel? Nobody asked.
Exterior not intriguing, but emphasizes the beauty on the interior (metaphor)

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1984)

Impressionism (on the edge of Realism)
The Floor Scrapers (1875)
Shows us the nobility of labor.
Mirrors the restoration of Paris
Paris Street: Rainy Day (1877)
Perspective is key here. It's like youre there
Les Mis all up in here
Everyone is in their own world under the umbrellas: concept of individualism
emerging
Young Man at the Window (his bro Rene) (1875)
Surveying Modern Paris
Ruckenfigur: looking from the back.

Alphonse Mucha (1960-1939)

Art Nouveau: art of the Youth
Job (look in the background) (1896)
Selling Job cigarettes
Whiplash curves: never go out of style
Moet & Chandon Dry Cremant Imperial (1899)

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 Advertising champagne
Allusion to sainthood, but not?
Work meant to make you purchase a product
F. Champenois (1898)
Flowers!
The whiplash curves are very art nouveau

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Russian Expressionist
Autumn in Bavaria (1908)
Naptime! Painting gets turned on side and he has a thought. You dont have to paint
representationally to be beautiful.
Moves on to Composition VIII (1923)
His epiphany with Autumn in Bavaria leads him to this.
Allows us to interpret it. Allows art to be what you need it be. Artists gift to you.
Color Study. Squares with Concentric Circles (1913)
Investigation of lines, color space
Holiness of thinking outloud
My kid could do that
Working through communism

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)

Expressionist
Visceral feeling literally.
Flayed Rabbit (1921)
Emotional flaying. Violent. Bloody
Other Bunny Painting: Adam Fuss Love
Woman in Red (1923-24)
Reality is messed up!
Were just slabs of meat. Pessimistic view of the world
How do we mangle the flesh. How do we psychologically torture people?
Le Valet de Chambre (1927)
Psychological portraits of distorted worlds. Distorted economies, social moraes.

Egon Schiele (1980-1918, Spanish Flu)

Expressionist
Portrait of Wally (1912)

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 She models for her until 1915 and marries someone else.
Self- Portrait, Standing (1910)
Tortured, Pessimistic view of himself
Looks flayed himself
Even face looks like hes in pain
Klimt influences him
Cardinal and Nun (Caress) (1912)
Scandalous
Very influenced by Klimts The Kiss

Otto Dix (1891-1969)

Expressionism, New Objectivity
Very angry at a world that systematically destroys youth
Portrait of Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926)
Manly features. Seeing a psychological portrait.
Monocle: about perception. What can she see?
Isolation. Alone in the Corner
Trailblazer for women making their own decision about what is beautiful
Salon (1927)
Even grandma has to be a prostitute. Supposed to creep us out a little bit.
We live in a society that isnt always kind or concerned
The War (1929-1932)
Shape is allusion to
Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, 1512-1526

George Grosz (1893-1959)

Dadaist, Expressionist (New Objectivity)
Hard pencil line. Editorial cartoonist
Work literally gross to look at.
Drawing, rather than painting
Poverty is great radiance from within (Rilke)
Rilke is a poet
Poverty is a great radiance from within?
Poverty is as bad as it gets. Woman cant take care of them. Not mocking them.
Rescue them by creating this drawing.
Considered a porographer and arrested.
Parallel to the famous Dust Bowl Photo (32 years old)
Notice the baby and that shes pregnant
Florence Owens (1903-1983)
We just existed...we survived.

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 Migrant Mother, 1936
Dorthea Lange took photo

Homeless: Careful dont trip
Showing us the gross world we live in
Measure the morality of society by who lives in the street
Whoever can, swims, whoever cant goes under
Perspective from above. Birds eye or Gods like view.
Starving child :(

2/20/2017
**Midterm. Maybe explain in the Joy of Life whether it is sensuous or sensual

Paul Klee
Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delight:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/El_jard%C3%ADn_de_las_De
licias,_de_El_Bosco.jpg/550px-El_jard%C3%ADn_de_las_Delicias,_de_El_Bosco.jpg
Maybe if we want to survive as a nation we need to recover our childhood
Child-like, not childish
Need to get rid of our filters to appreciate it.
Pixels precursor
Fish Magic (1925)

Death & Fire (1940)
Child-like
May Picture

Franz Marc (1880-1916)

Expressionist
Artist dies as a soldier in WW!
The Large Blue Horses (1911)
The Fate of Animals (1913)
Concerned about the bombing, fires. That were slaughtering all the animals.
Animals cant change anything. Thats all us.
See animals screaming
The Fox (1913)

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 Inspired by the cubists, picasso.
Show us all sides of the fox!

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Cubist/ Modern Genius
About celebrating all the intricate parts of something
Intimate images
Man with a Clarinet (1912)
Guernica, (1937)
Dripping paint
Horse is screaming. Whos gonna pick on an animal
Noble youth, even the eyes are out of whack
Screaming, wailing
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932)
Marie Therese Walter (1909-1977)
Double portrait of her.
Picassos mistress from 1927-1935
Dad is a trained artist. Classically trained by Dad!
Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907) (the women of Avignon)
Classic picasso
Inspired by african masks (top right)
Looking outside his culture to see other ways of imaging.
All prostitutes
Open-minded. Looking beyond his bit of the street. Thinking globally.

George Bellows (1882-1925)

American Ashcan Artist
Sensitive to emerging america
immigrants
Both Members of This Club (1909)
Sometimes we survive by being cruel. Were even amused by this.
Faces of the crowd distorted.
Pleasure and pain?
What type of society are we?
Cliff Dwellers (1913)
Tenements
No privacy
Paddy Flanagan, (1908)

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 Kid whos learning how to survive on the street
Survive by his fists

Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)

Orphist
All about musicality and art. Art can be lyrical
Electric Prisms, 1914
Theory that theyre airplane propellers
Translates her paintings into textiles
Mad art skills to become a businesswoman
Paint automobiles to match your outfit
Fashion Designs, 1925
Couverture de Berceau, 1911
Baby blanket for her son, Charles
Nothing narrative, may be the origin of her own aesthetic

Gino Severini (1883-

Futurist
Move into the future fast.
Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, 1912
Everything that exists under the womans dress
Decadent, fantasy
Freud going on

Giacomo Balla
Futurist
Dynamism of a dog on a leash (1912)

Umberto Boccioni
Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913

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Marcel Duchamp
Dadaist, Surrealist, Conceptualist
Granddaddy of all weirdness
L.H.O.O.Q. (know it for MIDTERM)
Postcard he picks up at Louvre
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912
Showing us how we move. One woman walking down the steps.
Ideas of her moving.
Fountain, 1917
Doesnt even sign his real name.
Replica, original thrown out
READY MADE

Jean Arp (1886-1966)

Dadaist
Why have a standard template for everything
Minimalist. Conceptualist, Idea person.
What is it?
You decide
Seuil Configuration (fr. Threshold), conceived 1960
Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Law of Chance), 1917
Art wants us to think about the power of chance
Threw paper in the air and painted where they landed
Some three dimensional items.
Constellation with Five White Forms and Two Black, Variation III, 1932

Hannah Hoch
Dadaists (collagist)
Cutting magazines and creating a woman
Untitled (Large Hand Over a Womans Head) (1930)
Note the edges
Untitled (From an Ethnographic Museum,) (1930)
Challenging Notions of Beauty
Dompteuse (fr. Lion Tamer) (1930)

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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Dadaist (Collagist)
Murdering Airplane (1920)
War (bombs)
9/11
The Immaculate Conception (Marys conception)
Did this to strike a nerve. Didnt like the Catholic Church
1854: dogma
What do you believe in?
The Blessed Virgin, Chastising the Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul
Eluard and the Artist, 1926
She knocks his halo off

Quiz Wednesday

Sunday in the Park with George-Broadway Show

http://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sunday.htm
The Poky Little Puppy
Little Golden Book are 75 Years old--Founded 1942
For Baby Boomers, this book was their first experience with art
In those editions, theres some magic between the words and images
Something about the kind of primary nature of the images and how those colors just
explode off the pages
I think that may have been the first time I became aware of art
George Saunders
When was your first experience with art???(totes gonna ask)

Adrian Piper (1948)

Value of staying quiet
Censorship. Whose voice is too dangerous to hear.
Philosopher: Harvard Ph.D
You dont want to hear what I have to say about times right now
Motto: Declare who we are at all costs!
My Calling Card #1 (1986)

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 African American women that is so white, that she was often mistaken for being
white.
All about essential identity
Golden Lion 2015

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Anish Kapoor
Born in India
Ai Weiwei
8 Mile walk for compassion and solidarity with refugees across the globe (2015)
London
We are demanding creativity of others, recognizing that those who leave their country and go
on a journey across the water full of danger or who walk hundreds of miles across land are
also making a creative act
The blankets are a symbol of the need that faces 60 million people

Subway Train
Jared Nied, No1. Subway Train, 4 Feb 2017.
Train covered in anti-semitic graffiti: Jews belong in the Oven (Swastika)
Hand sanitizer got rid of it w/i 2 minutes
Whos an artist? He or she that jumps in and does what we cant do ourselves.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
Buchenwald, April 1945 (concentration camp)

Marina Abramovic (1946)

The Artist is Present. MoMA, 14 March-31 May, 2010
736.5 hrs
I will be present as long as that person needs me.
Art transcends language
Look in the eye: dehumanize everyone
Go down for the kids level
Sat in silence, inviting visitors to take the seat across from her f or as long as they
chose.
Ive been looking into 1,565 pairs of eyes
Former Partner
Breakup Story on Great Wall of China
Slapping: investigate domestic abuse
The only time she presents herself to someone
Performance Art
Being acknowledged
Amnesty International Poland, Look Beyond Borders 2016
Aims to break down barriers between refugees and native Europeans

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 Four minutes of eye contacts brings people closer to each other better than
everything else

Marco Anelli (1968)

Photographed each of the 1565 visitors

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Circumstances of death debatable
Shot by someone else
Moved North of France to South of France
Drawn to the light like sunflowers do
Loved the scent of Lavender
For three years he tries to enter the protestant seminary, but rejected by everybody
Plagued by the notion of failure
Nature never disappoints him. Looks to nature for companionship
Sunflowsers!
Fantasy
7 different versions
Sunflowers twist and move
Acknowledges diversity
The LIGHT of Arles (Provence Southern France)
VVG hoped the light of Arles would fill his painting with a chromatic intensity strong
enough to act on the soul and to speak to the moral faculties
Favorite Color: Naples Yellow
POISONOUS
He eats it...toxic lead :(
Yellow House in Arles (ruined in WWII)
His use of color CHANGED the history of art
Emotions revealed and worked out though color (expressionism)
Locates emotion in a vase of sunflowers
Light and color had psychological and moral weight
Expressive of pleasure and plain
The utterance of a religious heart
Thick oil painter
Sunflowers, 1888
7 images of sunflowers in vases
The most popular still-lifes in the history of art
The botanical answer to the Mona Lisa-Robert Hughes
Impasto: Thick application of paint

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 Sold it on VVGs birthday
Tokoyo Museum of Modern Art
Sunflowers & Frozen Liquid Silicon
Goodland, KS
VVG on giant easel
Artist:
100,000,000 Porcelain sunflower seeds
Became toxic. Opps
Do we see a label that says Made in China and inwardly shrug at the thought of
millions of faceless factory workers
860 oil paintings
1300 watercolors, drawings, sketches, and prints
LEFT ear was damaged 23 dec 1888
All that was left of his ear
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889
Newspaper article written about it
Gave someone a piece of his ear
Dr. Felix Rey, 1889
Vincents doctor
However, witnesses who saw van Gogh after Dr. Rey, including his brother
Theos wife, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the artist Paul Signac and van
Goghs doctor in Auvers-sur-Oise, Dr. Paul Gachet, said that not the entire ear
was missing.
Pyotr Ravlensky, Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow
Protest against the forced psychiatric treatment of dissidents in russia
Sits on edge of hospital, naked and cuts part of ear
The knife severs the earlobe from the body
The granite wall of the psychiatric institute separates the sane from the insane
The police give themselves the power to determine the threshold b etween reason
and madness.
Protest and Performance Artists
Using physical pain and violence to explore and confront societal concerns
and fears
Wrapped himself in barbed wire
Sewed his lips shut
Nailed his scrotum to Red Square
A metaphor for the

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Vincent Van Gogh P2
The Bedroom, 1889
Walls are actually purple
Three versions of the painting
James Mollison
Where Children Sleep, 2010 (book)
What type of space is it? How does it affect you?
What can you tell about a person by what is in it?
Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1828-1909), 1890
Sold for 82.5 Million
Foxglove, from which the heart medication for digitalis is derived.
The Church at Auvers, 1890
Looks warped
There's a soul in here. Its alive
He doesnt give up on the church, even though it gives up on him
The Starry Night, June 1889
Dreamscape
Vincent painted this while he was in asylum/hospital
Checked himself into a space he felt safe and secure
Color shape and texture to influence (today color therapy)
Tree in front
Cyprus tree. Often found in cemeteries. Symbol of death.
Death is closest to us.
How do any of us reach the stars? Death.
Poignant yet powerful.
East meets west with VVG
Swirls are japanese
Mt. fuji in japan wave painting inspires him
The Great Wave, c 1883 AIC
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
What inspires VVG? The art of Japan
Committed himself to Saint-Paul-de-Mausol and ASYLUM at St. Remy in May, 1889 for
one year and 8 days
I wish to remain shut up, as much for my own piece of mind, as for other peoples
Painted 150 canvases at St. Remy
Liza Lou
Beads as her medium
Swirls are VVG swirls
Kitchen, 1991-1995 (168 square feet), Whitney
Ultimately the artist wants to delight you.

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 Many different renditions of this painting
Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888 (VVG)
Fantasy. Two people at the bottom.
Joseph Cornell
Box constructions and collages
La Mousme, 1888 (NGA, DC)
Jessica Chastin
VVG was named after his still-born brother
Im just a replacement
Haunts him
Born one year later on the same date
Without his pain he could never have created the work the world loves
His anguish was inextricably linked to his talent
Stay weird, stay different, Graham Moore
Unmarried, no children, unsuccessful in love
Loved by the girl next door, but he rejected her.
Fell in love with a cousin: self-injury because love isnt returned
1880 became an artist
Would beat himself with sticks to make himself study harder
This world was never meant for someone as beautiful
The Potato Eaters, 1885
My intention was that it was (my work) should make people think of a way of life
entirely different from that of our refined society.
Theyre poor, so its all theyve gt
Considers it the best thing hes ever done
Detail in back
Crucifixion of Jesus painting in the back.
Faith never leave vincent
Eat Dem Taters, 1975- Robert Colescott
Red Vineyard Near Arles, 1888 (moscow)
The one someone actually purchases!
For $1000
Purchases by the painter Anna Rosalie Boch in 1890

Midterm Review

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