ARTH 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mary Louise Pratt, Georges Braque, Hans Hofmann
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Kolkata) when it was still the indian british capital, early reception of modernism. Paris, where picasso came from spain and where an artist like. Kandinsky passed as well in an imp time in his career. Ppl like picasso, kandinsky, tagore and hans hofmann. Ideas like cubism, expressionism and the bauhaus (as much an idea as an actual place) How these are some of the most successful ideas in modern art. A(cid:396)gues that (cid:449)e should(cid:374)"t look at (cid:449)o(cid:396)ks like this as failed pi(cid:272)asso"s. Plays an imp role in the history of modern art. Supposed to give you many diff pov of seeing the picture in one frame. Observation is very linear, grid of sorts is created, diff structure. Picasso talks about it like an intellectual exercise, like they are searching for something. Many artists will associate him w/anarchic pol, that painting this way is like a pol stance.