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Henri Matisse, Red Room


France


1908-1909




+The use of bright and bold primary colours


+Play with the viewer's perception and assumption of perspective


+ The table and wall seems to be merging together only a line to separate


+The questioning of the background window or painting


+Joyous content to cheer up due to the turbulent French politics



Fauvism

Ernst Ludwig Kitchner, Street, Dresden


Germany


1908




+Painting reflect the anxiety due to nationalism


+Use unsettling colours to make the painting look very uncomfortable


+Half of the people in the painting are looking at the view


+This questions if the people are welcoming or staring in an unfriendly way


+Influenced by Munch with the flame-like rendering


+Use of random colours

Die Brucke

Vassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28


Germany
1912




+A non-representational art


+Based on Kandinsky's own belief in cleansing the world


+Make up his own colour symbols--> Purpose of each use of colour and their placement


+The series of lines are underletting in different directions


+A lot of energy

Der Blaue Reiter

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d' Avignon


France


1907




+A very scandalous painting


+An indication of artistic direction of Picasso


+Influenced by a lot of things e.g exotic items, Cezanne.etc


+A mixture of each influences


+Broken the plane and place them back together in an angular way


+Very flat


+5 prostitute: 2 in Venus pose, 2 with African masks and 1 w/ Iberian head


+Inside a brothel--> to Challenge 20th century morals


+Two perspectives used

Proto-Cubism

Gorges Braque, The Portuguese


1911




+A collaboration w/ Picasso


+Interest in Cezanne


+Analytical Cubism--> use of neutral colours and traditional subject matter


+Incorporate text-->Braque's innovation


+Trying to have the illusion of form merging outwards (3D)



Cubism

Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning


1912




+A multi-media painting/ Synthetic Cubism


+Used paint to paint the chair canings--> very realistic


+Incorporated an oil cloth


+Questioning out perception of what is real and what's not


+The rope is real

Cubism

Umberto Boccioni, Unique forms of Continuity in Space


Italy


1913




+Interested in movement


+The figure is flame-like and striding forward


+Emphasis on the legs--> the limb that moves forward


+Striding towards the future


+Strong abstract form

Futurism

Gino Severini, Armored Train


Italy


1915




+Severini embraced nationalism and military


+The train is seen as "Progress"


+The machine is seen as a 'new weapon'


+A flat style


+The soldiers has no face


+Overlapping to create the illusion of depth

Futurism

Marcel Duchamp, Urinal


New York, USA


1917




+Create a controversy


+Created the 'Ready-made' art


+Caused rejection and drama between Duchamp and the Art Administrator


+'R. Mutt' is the company of the urinal


+Question that should we appreciate the creators of the urinal because it could be art


+Used a more intellectual way to approach art and developed the artistic concept


+Created a shift in Art

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