FAH246H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wassily Kandinsky, Pop Art, Wild Beasts
Document Summary
Primitivism: picasso works with different faces that were considered primitive. Shows what artists were doing with other cultures. The focus is on the idea of a work of art rather than craftsmanship etc. 20th century art; abstract art is one of the truly new thing in western art. Any one can do, but not every work is a great piece of art. Imaginative space, projection of someone else on to you. Contemporary art starts in 1985 because that"s how museums are arranged. People were used to a kind of formality and decorum, schiles" portrait was revolutionary because they broke conventions. He went through a radical phase and came out with this decorative style. He shows that vienna secession is not all gore and guts. Might connect with schiles but we have to have good arguments. Matisse"s sculpture and its relationship with rodin. The struggle between individual artists get over dramatized. Matisse said he"s only a painter and not sculptor.
