ARTH 3419 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Watercolor Painting
1 Sep 2016
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Cubism: war against perspective, what we are familiar with. We are looking at the suggestion of a face. Portrait of a german man because they were more willing to accept cubism. A flask and table in the right corner which alludes to the fact that this is still life. In the top left corner, there is a reference to the african mask. Picasso was set free by african art because it was something we had never seen before. Denies perspective for shifting, fleeting, difficult surface with multiple evasive, elusive planes. We still don"t know much about african art which represents a newness. Cubism is like an owl that lives in a state of unaproachibility, we cannot see them immediately like we can"t see cubism immediately. Figure placed in the center of work and is looking down. Nude is a mainstay of art and by including this reference he is linking the past.
