ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vienna Secession, Marsden Hartley, Egon Schiele
May 8th, 2018
● Fin de Siecle
○ Term gains popularity with the Vienna Secession (1894-1905)
○ Secession is a political act of withdrawing
○ Artists ithdre fro Viea Austria’s ai art uio, collectiely uited
against traditional representation: portrait painting, landscape paintings, etc
○ Rise in abstraction and expressionism
○ Expressionism: a style of painting in which the artist seeks to depict emotion
(internal world). This is the opposite of impressionism, which sought to depict
impressions in the external world
○ A break with the art of the past-how to represent the modern human body
○ Anxiety over rise of industrialization, political turmoil, rising nationalism
● Egon Schiele
○ Known for producing works on paper
○ Self-portrait-depicts himself as a grotesque being
○ To Woe Ebracig 1913
■ Idea of illicit intimacy
■ His work has frank eroticism and sexuality
○ Four trees
■ Not true to life
■ Contrast between the dark landscape
■ Color variation
■ Version of fall, towards winter
■ Artist's interpretation of landscape, not true to life landscape
● Gustav Klimt
○ Died in 1918 due to the flu (epidemic)
○ Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer
■ Gold and silver leafing on the canvas on top of the oil paint
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Document Summary
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