ARTH-UA 9662 Study Guide - Final Guide: Maurice De Vlaminck, Juan Gris, Georges Braque
5 Jan 2019
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1st of the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Reflect the artist"s state of mind rather than the reality of the external world. Reflected a deep spiritual unrest about the destruction of the traditional relationship of trust between man and the world. Was a radical turning point in the history of art. The dismissal of pictorial illusionism that had dominated w art for centuries. Never defined nor can be called a style. Braque reduced it to geometric schemes and cubes". Breaking an object down viewpoint by viewpoint into a fragmentary image. Not distracted from the structure of the form, and the. Density of the image at the centre of the canvas. Removing any illusion of a 3d space. Experimenting with collage newspaper print and patterned paper. The scream by edvard munch (symbolism leaning toward expressionism) Took inspiration ancient arts--tribal masks from africa. Glass on a table georges braque (analytical cubism) Not to copy something but to reconstruct something.
