ARH 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Georges Braque, Paul Gauguin, Contrapposto
28 Apr 2016
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Essentially he will take a motif or a still life or something and usually normal motif and look at it almost through a prism that deflects the light and uses muted color scheme. Les demoiselles d"avignon: in a brothel and we have seen many depictions of brothels by now with olympia by. Manet and degas and lautrec: fragments the poses, some sort of classical underpinning by using similar pose as women in classical paintings and similar themes, center figures have contrapposto but simplifying facial features to basic use of line. Like gauguin and yellow christ with simplified facial features: bottom right figure ambiguous (ambiguity hallmark of modernity, not trying to create volume. Picasso was interested in primitivism (non-industrialized like africa) Ma jolie: super abstract, pushing the boundary on stuff, reference to human figure to the hand and title of the piece.
