FAH246H1 Lecture Notes - Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Scott Munter
Document Summary
Primitivism is modernism"s troubled rejection of modernity, or perhaps much of modernity was possible only bc of deeply racist + hegemonic practices of colonialism, whose traces we see in primitivism. Not so much rejection as it is return of the repressed . It is also modernism"s attempted flight from modernity. Matisse has been burned in effigy because his works outraged public so much. Originally looked at iberian sculptures, then used african masks, to model their. Picasso shows he is not just a straight trajectory into cubism. Colour brutal colouring => mirrors matisse/s work. Early example of knight figures, picked up from st. george sense of spirituality. Trains eye to see colour by itself, as he slowly accustoms eye to see abstract works. Book that showed many different works from everywhere, used by eg. picasso as examplar. Kandinsky explores this overlap through syntesthesia a movement begun in music which explores different mixed expressions of senses.
