FAH246H1 Lecture Notes - Josef Albers, Willem De Kooning, Elaine De Kooning
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Sculpture & surrealists, two variations with construction: formal abandon cubism"s idea of drawing in space, technical refine high culture and rationalism of modern technology. Also surrealists (unlike cubists) saw construction as bricolage (primitive form of irrational associative thinking) Primitive and pure, expresses formal and technical ambivalence in 40s. Evolved out of collage from picasso, and julio gonzalez. Julio gonzalez (1876-1942: woman combing hair (1936) visual openness, called drawing in space . Pablo picasso: head of a woman (1929-30) ordinary metal object of calendar incorporated. Smith + totems: pillar of sunday (1945) constructed sculpture between craft basis of traditional and industrial (modern manufacturing). Ambitions, desire for abstraction/technology: totem is figurative, real object or animal that has human significance of identity that depends on it, taboo. Voltri-bolton xxiii (1963) primitive setting of sacrificial table and sacrificial figure of 3 elements. Only one person can look through: differs from transparency of russians; exploitation of viewpoints.
