FA 77b Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caraballeda, Kazimir Malevich, Mimesis
6 Feb 2017
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Something happens on or around 1910s, a break, in terms of the culturalprogression of man. The interest in an effect passed to the viewer, rather than just a reality recounted. During the time of blanes in the 1870s, there were many thing going on in europe, modernism. A first wave of modernism ends in 1910, and the avant garde begins. Men become alienated of themselves and the aesthetics of daily life. The goal is to reunite human beings, the modern subject, with aesthetics. Art back to the people during the russian revolution. Go back to the most basic shapes and colors. Lived by himself on the beach, and live with creepy dolls. There is so much light that it blinds you. He was interested in the elements of the earth, outside the city, and focuses on light. It is the local element, the whiteness of the caribbean light, used as a central expressive tool.
