Monday, 26 October 2009

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 1

Modern Art Retrospective

Gietto Di Bondone - The Massacre of the Innocents, 1302-05

Revolutionary brought the 3D perspective to images.

Modern art is not as straight forward as a time line. Modernism - Mid 19th C

Raphael - The Triumph of Galatea, 1511

After this it became stylized, idolized

deliberate break from the past

Cararaggio - Doubling Thomas, 1602-03

at this time there was lots of religious paintings

shown jesus with flesh and blood, darkness

Chiaroscuro - difference between lightness and darkness

Claude Lorrain - Coast Scene with Europa, 1634

Jan Van Goyen - Windmill by a River, 1642

at this time most artists thought paintings should be for Gods eyes

Johan Vermeer - The Milkmaid, 1748

it was frowned upon in them times to paint everyday life, art was very decorative

Francois Boucher - The Fountain of Love, 1748

very popular by painting images that could go into houses, non religious

They wanted art to teach, inspire upstanding victorian times, clean duties to God.

At the same time underground evil prostitution and drug rings ran.

Jean Honore Fragonard - The Swing, 1767

adored by everyone, didn’t have to think much. Titillating

art had been stuck in a rut

Pre-Raphalite (not acknowledged as modern artists)

Rossetti - Venus Verticordia, 1864-8

repect detail of nature

Red House William Morris

Modern Art - Avante Garde - Looking Forward

Pre-Raphalite - Looking Back because they thought art had got to the high point.

Gustave Coubet - ABurial Ornam, 1849-50

Realist, dark, used black tar. ‘only paint what people actually experienced’

No beautiful flowers, rolling hills

Made his own little Gallery

Edward Manet - Olympia, 1863

No fernes, roughly drawn

prostitute, looking straight at the viewer

he wanted to be accepted but his paintings were refused and caused outrage.

Modernism starts at this?

Claude Monet - Impression Sunrise, 1872

looseness of brushstrokes, joke at that time

artists began to see more than the object, light , colour etc

start of paint in a tube

cameras were beginning to take hold

Georges - Pierre Senrat - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

shadow - the colour tinged by its complimentary colour

application of paint became as big as the scene

new scenes - city parks, train stations etc

Impressionists held exhibitions so critics had to start accepting the changes.

art in the street - everyday man

Paul Cezanne - Still life with apples and oranges 1899

not a perfect image, what the artist wants you to see

Van Gough - Bandaged Ear, 1889 - £90 million

Bohemian, only sold one painting

Dark/hardworking people

colour could express a mood/ feeling

making art about them selfs

an expression of himself, picks the colours to express himself.

At this time more self portraits were done than in any other time.

Max Ernst - Approaching Puberty, 1921

Surrealism broke down quickly, to obvious

Freud disliked them

Picasso - Les Demoiselles d’Arignon 1907

when people pick an image to represent modernism this is sometimes it because of the angular figure, moving away from the traditional figure its all about composition.

Jackson Pollock 1912 - 56

Modern art is functional, political non decorative but may be beautiful

Abstraction fundamental core to modernism.

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