ARTH 176A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Henri Matisse, Maquette, Fauvism
30 Apr 2018
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20th Century France // Italy
Salon d’ Automne - The societe des artists décorateurs
● 1853
● Print culture move quickly
● Arts and crafts within great britain
● Creating salons, trying to do is promote an idea of modernism
● Modernity - impact on culture and industrialization - happening mid 1900-1950.
● Trying to reconcile of the impact of technology
● Modernism align with sub group like cubism…
● What is the impact like speed on your everyday life
● Anti-consumerist
● Modernism taken over by industry and become a consumer impulse
○ Unknown artists, Exposition des Arts Decorateurs et industriels modernes, 1925,
lithographs
■ Classism
■ Engagement with nature
■ 2 dimension
■ Engagement with industry on the left
■ What art and industry can be
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Cubism and Abstract Art, 1936
● Cubism & abstract art
● Artistic group express in black
● Implusers are in red
● Makes an argument that all groups are intertwine
● WW1 1914-1918
Fauvism - Henri Matisse, Nasturtiums with the Painting “Dance” 1912, oil on canvas
● Bright use of color
● Short lived group
● Decorative patterning of an interior
● Fauvist (little beasts)
Cubism - Pablo picasso, Guitar maquette, 1912
● Impact of 3D in art
● See the failing of realism
● Quote “we all know that art is a not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least
the truth that is given us to understand
● Can and cannot see
Orphism
Guillaume Apollinaire
● 1912
● Embrace non representational art
● Abstract
● Use bright color
● Part of the french army
● Part of the dada movement
● See the failing of technology
● Dada, reject the logic of culture.
○ Calligram, La colombe
■ Word becomes the form of the idea
○ IL pleut from calligrammes, 1918
■ It is raining women’s voices as if they had died even in memory. And it’s
raining you as well marvelous encounters of my life O little drops…
■ Encapsulating the grief
■ Poem, internal nature of rain
■ Consistency of the pain
■ Thought, you are connected to the land and your family
■ Slow fracturing of what you think you know
■ You knew all of your neighbors, however people change addresses and
people move.
■ Allows you to reinvent yourself, something new and what you are born to
be
○ Pochoir method - 1913
■ Used a stencil for watercolor
■ What is necessary or essential in a book
■ 4 sheets glued together
■ Memories of childhood, hopes of the future, experience on the train.
Going out to Asia
■ Past, present, and future in this composition
■ Recreate the emotion of lost, love, memory with the uses of red, blue,
and green.
■ Text became part of the image
■ Colors are an emotional response to the poem
Futurists - Le Figaro, Paris, February 20, 1909
● Well known in france
● Filippo marientti - crashed his fiat into a ditch
● Embrace the future, idea about technology
● Pushing against museum and academia
● Want everything new, want a madness
● Pushed against the idea of good taste and elevating
● Reject libraries and traditional grammar / syntax
● Sometimes people are afraid of change, but this group isn't
● Called for a typographic revolution… (Quote)
○ Umberto Boccioni, Unique
○ Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a dog on a leash
○ Giacomo Balla, Movimento Futurista, 1918
○ Filippo T. Marinetti Zang Tumb Tumb, 1914
■ Produce mass produce that use industrial type
■ Skew the idea of craftsmanship
■ Anybody could afford
■ Visually representing onomatopoeia of the war
■ Hearing the bullets, marching, whizzing
■ Sound is graphic / is visual
■ My thought: Thuuumb is the bomb dropping down while liberta is the
cloud from the bomb
■ Represent the war, Balcon War, before WWI.
■ What a book should be with the fold out.
■ Sound of train, cars, weaponry
Vorticism 1914-1916? - Wyndham Lewis, Blast: War Number, no. 2, July 1915 Art Journal
Woodcut
● Out of great Britain
● Coming disvowed to the futurists
● Want to blast old fashioned british art / culture
● Think that technology will allow them to deconstruct british art / culture
● Argued that they are not related to cubism
● Abstract
● Soldiers that are blasting themselves
○ Compared to: Max Pechstein, Arbeitsrat für kunst, 1919, woodcut
○ Edward Johnston, The redesigned roundel of the london underground, UK, 1918
■ Designing san serif for the underground
■ Trajan
■ Argument for Sans Serif and Times New Roman
■ Continuation of classism
■ San Serif, all about readability
■ Hired in 1919 by frank pick? Commercial manager
■ Student Eric Gill, Gill Sans typeface, 1928
■ Compared to: Josef Albers, Stencil typeface, 1925, universal because of
readability
○ Edward Mcknight - Kauffer, Power, the Nerve centre of london’s underground,
lithograph, 1931
■ First poster of moma
■ Blue = water, river allowing you to have electricity
■ Straight lines
Document Summary
Salon d" automne - the societe des artists d corateurs. Creating salons, trying to do is promote an idea of modernism. Modernity - impact on culture and industrialization - happening mid 1900-1950. Trying to reconcile of the impact of technology. Modernism align with sub group like cubism . What is the impact like speed on your everyday life. Modernism taken over by industry and become a consumer impulse. Unknown artists, exposition des arts decorateurs et industriels modernes, 1925, lithographs. Alfred h. barr, jr. cubism and abstract art, 1936. Makes an argument that all groups are intertwine. Fauvism - henri matisse, nasturtiums with the painting dance 1912, oil on canvas. Quote we all know that art is a not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. Word becomes the form of the idea. It is raining women"s voices as if they had died even in memory.
