ART 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Black Model, Academic Art, Paul Gauguin
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Themes of urbanism and growth of cities. 1905 -1920 same time as fauves. Artists under attack from government and respond with a sense of anxiety in their work. The bridge functioned like a commune, aggressive but authentic community in response to super cial society, not a utopia like fauvism. Closed in, too close to one another, claustrophobic. Directness and authenticity of primitive and african art. Compared to spirit of death watching by. Woman in front of a vase of flowers, 1906. People overdressed, not communicating with each other. No connectivity or warmth emotional isolation. Psychological terror of war even though not in germany. City is alienating and a frightening place. Never of cially joined de burke, but did exhibit with them twice. Takes religious themes and makes them psychological. Christ and the woman taken in adultery, 1906. Nolde goes to tahiti and nds violence which he represents using color. Witnessed wwii and incorporated it into his work.
