FAH246H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henri Matisse, Suprematism, De Stijl
6 Dec 2016
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The reductivist logic - abstraction and purity; materiality of painting and the spiritual. Piet mondrian, composition in red, yellow, blue and black, 1921. These three artists shared a spontaneous approach to art. Art that aims to synthesize the artist feelings, and expressive potential of pictorial elements. Gauguin is shown with his eyes closed which signifies the artistic withdrawal form the world. Memory and interior vision is a more important matter. The artist is considered as a superior being, as someone who has access to the spiritual world. You have the image of the avant-garde artist as the viewer as well as the creator. Georges braque, le portugaise (the emigrant), 1911, oil. Analytic cubism: opening up and deconstruction of the form. It is understood by many abstract artists as signifying the spiritual evolution from matter to spiritual. They see the dematerialization of form as the transition from matter to spiritual in a painting. Pablo picasso, guitar, sheet music, and glass, 1912.
