FINE112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jacob Epstein, Umberto Boccioni, Topness
5 Oct 2014
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The bloomsbury group, the english and canadian war art programmes footage of the vimy memorial. Paris tries to reinstate itself after ww1 but faces issues in ww2. England and western europe: emphasis on modernism is not so pronounced (ex. Warsaw: certain centers in europe were not looking at modernism, e anton mauve 1885, homeward bound- many people were looking for relaxing, nostalgia, pastoral scene without a hard primitive eye, england was pretty conservative, ex. The ha ain (constable) this is a typical example of the conservative art in england- renaissance art etc. was being collected. Many of the most prominent scholars studying matisse, c zanne, etc. were from england- the are assessing and criticizing modernism in an educated articulate way. Robert fry was from the upper middle class, which is well to do and when to a private school- studied to be a scientist and then became an art critic. Categorizes and defines art- well-bred and knowledgeable.
