VIC101H1 Lecture Notes - Juan Gris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Mondrian
14 Apr 2013
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Breaking conventions of the actual technique of painting from his era. Le dejeuner sur l"herbe + olympia edward manet. In your face > naked woman in public park painter really pushing disturbing content. Confrontational, subject is looking out directly out of painting. A mythological nude character is acceptable to be painted (venus and adonis) Avant garde: open pathways through new cultural or political terrain for society to follow promotion of radical social reforms manifestation of modernism associated with movements art for art"s sake . Flattens figures onto 2d form, without using shading, opening it up. Using the techniques of what people were trained not to do at the time. **exorcism ridding yourself of an evil spirit/person/place. Manet and picasso responding to new push social by woman to enter as equals into society. Three main artists of cubism (1) picasso (2) juan gris (3) braque. Intellectual revolt, rejects traditional art forms: emotional charge, movement, atmosphere, etc.
