Modern Artists

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Modern Artists

• Sister Wendys Story of Painting
• Modernism
• Remember, these are just my notes on the video.
  None of these slides is intended to represent an
  exhaustive study of the artist. I thought you
  might find it helpful to make your comparisons to
  the literature if you could access the art.

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Paul Cezanne

• Still Life with Apples, 1890
  Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1900
• Art what is meant, not what is seen
• Relationships are everything.
• Nothing exists in isolation.
• Blocks of color carry meaning.

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Pablo Picasso

• Art Tearing up the world and putting it back
• Art must Abolish perspective.
• Art must destroy beauty.
• The artist must believe in The ferocious power
  of the ugly.
• Cubism not just what the eye sees but what the
  mind knows
• Les Damoiselles dAvignon, 1907

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Henri Matisse

• Art color and shape
• Art JOY!!!!
• La Chute dIcare, 1943

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Wassily Kandinsky

• Art violence and collision
• Color is the swirl of passion He heard and felt
  colors
• Landscape with Church, 1913

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Piet Mondrian

• Art The desire for order
• Tableau 2, 1922

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Salvador Dali

• Art the world inside
• Everything we feel certain of, collapses.
• The Persistence of Memory, 1931

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Paul Klee

• Art Painting like a child, but a wise child
• Senecio, 1922

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Jackson Pollock

• Art Abstract Expressionism
• You can see the bones, the making of the art.
• His Art produces its own record of creativity.
• Lavender Mist, 1950

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Willem de Kooning

• Art a rage of lust and creativity
• Art frenzy
• Art the Female
• Great comedy has an element of pathos.
• Two Women with Still Life, 1952

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Mark Rothko

• Art the recreation of timeless emotion, for
  example, how we feel about death and courage and
  ecstasy
• Color is everything.
• Untitled, 1970

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Andy Warhol

• Art the ordinary
• The boring can be absorbing.
• Art bridges the gulf between low brow and high
  brow.
• Marilyn, 1967

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Jasper Johns

• Great art deep visual satisfaction
• 3 Flags, 1958

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Agnes Martin

• Art the minimum, always the same, but always
  different
• Looking can produce beauty, happiness, and
  innocence.
• She doesnt seek to paint nature, but the feeling
  of being in nature.
• 1997

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Lucian Freud

• Art the battle with dishonesty
• Every painter stands naked on the grounds of his
  own reality.
• Painter Working, Reflection, 1993