MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vienna Secession, Victor Horta, Joseph Maria Olbrich
17 May 2016
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Roots from japanese but also from medieval times stained glass. Mango gatherers, martinique: notion of non-western world as a paradise; painting bought by. La belle angele: mayor"s wife; radical for its time; circularform; split into three parts; attention to the flatness of the canvas; reference to three cultures; polonesian sculpture; japanism; tondo references classicism; puts them all at a par. Van gogh painting sunflowers: from the art, we can tell that gauguin didn"t think much of van. Spirit of the dead watching: his own take of the reclining nude; revisits native beliefs; they believed that sleeping in the dark left them vulnerable to evil spirits; old woman represents death. Nevermore, o tahiti: title comes from poe"s the raven; more traditional nude; not as openly positioned; more self-awareness; more about her emotional state or imagination; play on the interaction of curval-linear forms and geometrical formation.
