MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tennis Court Oath, Piano, Auto Racing

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Pamela Radcliff

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Lecture 5: the revolution of modern art a visual (cid:862)crisis of mea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) Idea of humans taking up the great causes and moving forward. Interpreting the society around him instead of trying to reproduce it in some way. Six versions of the rouen cathedral series, monet: high impressionism, gives you a sense of the aesthetic transition of the impressionist paintings, goal to interpret reality rather than reproduce it. It shifts depending on the time of day or the light. Gauguin (1897: post-impressionism, artist is developing their own emotional connection with the object, art is(cid:374)(cid:859)t just a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou are o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, it(cid:859)s a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou feel a(cid:271)out the object. Implies a subjective perspective: almost cartoonist, not a realistic ethnographic rendering, more about his relationship to the exotic. The crows in the wheatfield, van gogh (1890: the artist(cid:859)s o(cid:449)(cid:374) e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al relatio(cid:374)ship (cid:449)ith the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t is (cid:373)ore po(cid:449)erfull(cid:455) de(cid:448)eloped i(cid:374) va(cid:374) gough(cid:859)s (cid:449)ork.