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31 Cards in this Set
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Ch-E Jeanneret, Project for hydroelectric plant and dam, Isle Jourdain, France, 1917 |
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Ch-E Jeanneret, Cité Ouvrière Saint-Nicolas d’Aliermont, France, 1917 -Worker’s housing for clock-makers Duverdrey and Bloquel -His early work in France reflects vernacular style, per the client’s request |
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Ch-E Jeanneret, Slaughterhouse, Challuy, France, 1917 + Begin to design buildings for mass production (conveyor belts) + Engineers + Axial alignment and proportionality (sense of composition, beyond the merely utilitarian) |
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Ch-E Jeanneret, Slaughterhouse, Garchisy, France, 1918 |
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What career does LC do while in Paris in 1920? |
works as an antique trader |
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Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, oil on canvas, 1910 |
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Antonio Sant'Elia, perspective drawing from La Città Nuova, 1914 |
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, oil on canvas, 1907 |
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George Braque, Maisons à L’Estaque, oil on canvas, 1908 -Proto-cubist painting, influenced by Cézanne |
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Pablo Picasso, The Architect's Table, oil on canvas mounted on panel, 1912 -Analytical cubism, complex overlays of spaces and visual fragmentation |
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Fernand Léger, Contrast of Form, oil on canvas, 1913 -Conceptual and colorful depiction of the chaotic aspect of urban life |
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Juan Gris, The Sunblind, gouache, paper, chalk and charcoal on canvas, 1914 -Synthetic cubism, which readily integrates fragments of everyday life |
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Why is Amédée Ozenfant (1886 – 1966) important and what was his relationship to Jeanneret? Who introduced then and when? |
-Ozenfant first coins the expression “purisme” -Teaches Jeanneret how to become a more proficient easel painter -The two develop a very close bond for the next several years -They met through A. Perret, Winter 1917 |
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What magazine did Amédée Ozenfant found? Who did he find it with? When? |
L’Élan, with Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, 1915-16 |
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What is the title of the book that Guillaume Apollinaire wrote? Give date. Why is he important? What was the name of the famous essay he wrote? |
Calligrammes, poetry book, 1918. -Major art critic -cubism -poems in forms of pictures - L’Esprit Nouveau et les Poètes, essay, 1918. |
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What is the name and date of the book Ozenfant and Jeanneret write together? what 3 key points about painting does it make? |
Ozenfant and Jeanneret, Après le Cubisme, 1918
Painting functions on three levels: (1) Through primary sensations (depiction of primary elements of form) like a cylinder. (“Universal” for everyone) (2) Through secondary perceptions, aka the “narrative aspect”, where the cylinder becomes a wine bottle with other properties—colour, material etc.. (Individual-determined by culture etc..) (3) Through revealing something about its content—the broader subject of the painting, ie, Bars, Bordeaux, red wine etc… |
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Ch-E Jeanneret, La Cheminée, oil on canvas, 1918 + Can be read as a “transitional” work + According to Brooks, the painting’s concepts reveal that which LC would build his reputation as an architect + Molding (ornamental detail typical of architecture up to this time)—soon to disappear from Jeanneret’s architecture + Shelf’s vanishing point is off on the left, with two books and a white cube on a horizontal plane/shelf. + Whole white cube – critique of Cubist deconstruction (not fragmented) |
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Artist, Name, Materials, Date, What artistic style does this image convey? Give 4 points. |
Ch-E Jeanneret, Nature morte puriste: bol, cube, papier à plat et roulé graphite pencil and coloured pencil on paper, 1919 Purism: + use of Golden Ratio and modules to “regulate” the painting +as little evidence of the artist’s hand as possible in the final painting + multiple perspectives + “privileged aspect” (to avoid Cubist fragmentation) + wish to guide the viewer’s gaze and fix it at strategic points. |
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Ch-E Jeanneret, Nature morte à l’oeuf, oil on canvas, 1919. + everyday objects, and a more complex approach to space: exploring balance between volume and surface, figure and abstraction + iconography of “object types”—glasses, bottles, carafes, plates, pitcher—and stylization of their forms + egg = perfect shape, mystical symbol, and joins other small forms, such as seashells that LC would use to to isolate spaces on the canvas (objets à réaction poétique) + objects outward structure/ form and views them from above. |
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Paul Théophile Robert, Nature morte à la cafetière et au journal, oil on canvas, 1919 -contrast between modern and traditional objects. |
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Artist, Name, Materials, Date, What artistic style does this image convey? 5 points. |
Ch-E Jeanneret, Nature morte à la pile d’assiettes et au livre, oil on canvas, 1920 + “distinguished by the architectonic presence of objects in space.” (S. Von Moos) + objects grouped around a central axis, which coincides with vertical spine of open book and neck of guitar + four planes: book, then plates and carafe, then guitar, pipe and glass, then bottle in background with profile of second guitar. + three dimensionality through shading and raised viewpoint, allowing axonometric perspective (like architectural elevation) + refined the formal language, and formulated the plastic vocabulary that he would develop and use for his further works
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Ch-E Jeanneret, Nature morte au siphon, oil on canvas, 1921 |
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Amédée Ozenfant, Still Life with Bottles, oil on canvas, 1922 |
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Amédée Ozenfant, Glasses and Bottles, oil on canvas, 1922 |
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Amédée Ozenfant, Fugue (Accords), oil on canvas, 1922 |
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Amédée Ozenfant, The Vases, oil on canvas, 1925 |
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Fernand Léger, Still Life with a Beer Mug, oil on canvas, 1921-22 -masculin still life |
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Artist, Commissioned by and for, Street. Location, Date. What does this image convey? |
Le Corbusier, Home and studio of Amédée Ozenfant, 53 avenue Reille (corner of Square du Montsouris), Paris, France, 1922 |
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What is L'Espite Nouveau? What was the date of the first issue? |
Le Corbusier wanted to launch the magazine “L’Esprit Nouveau” with the indisputable basic foundations of all the plastic arts: forms that the eyes can see. Positive attitude; clarity of reading; clarity of conception; action.” - 1920. |
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When did LC and Ozenfant split up? |
1923. |
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When did LC start using his creator name? Give some possible reasons for the choice of name? 4 points. |
Le Corbusier in 1920 Possible reasons + maternal grandfather's name, Lecorbésier + Le C – Le Christus (Les Grands Initiés?) + Corbu = corbeau (raven) + four syllables, like a right angle square |
