CKC Art Grade 7Early Abstraction and Expressionism

Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968

Duchamp took the traditional Cubist idea, “one moment, many views” and warped it, creating “one view, many moments.”

Marcel Duchamp,

Nude Descending a Staircase, #2

1912

Marcel Duchamp

Sad Young Man in a Train

1912

Marcel Duchamp

Readymade: Bicycle Wheel

1913

Marcel Duchamp

Ready-made: Bottle Rack

1914

Duchamp’s “Fountain,” exhibited at the Society for Independent Artists Exhibition in 1917.

Signed “R. Mutt.”

Marc ChagallRussian born, worked in France

(1887-1986)

Marc Chagall

I and the Village

1911

                                                                                                     

     Marc Chagall, Birthday, 1915

L’Apparition

1917-18

Marc Chagall

Liberation

1937-53

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian (1866-1944)

Improvisation 31

(Sea Battle)

1913

Wassily Kandinsky. Improvisation 26 (Oars). 1912

Composition VII

1913

Composition VIII

1923

Accent en Rose

1926

Composition IX

1939

Composition X

1939

Edvard MunchNorwegian (1863-1949)

Edvard Munch

The Scream

1893

Edvard Munch

Anxiety

1896

Edvard Munch

Death in the Sickroom

1895

Edvard Munch

The Dance of Life, 1899

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

German,

born in Switzerland.

Paul Klee

Senecio, 1922.

Paul Klee

Red Balloon, 1922.

Heroic Roses

1922

"Flora am Feld" - (1940)

Siblings - (1930)

Paul Klee is known for his off-beat sense of humor and the deceptively child-like nature of his art.

He once wrote, "I want to be as though newborn, to be almost primitive."

Working more and more child-like with paint, he eventually moved into a kind of painting that was solely about color, shape and texture.

Piet MondrianHolland (Dutch)

Piet Mondrian, Red Trees, 1908

Piet Mondrian, The Tree, 1908

Piet Mondrian, The Red Tree1909

Piet Mondrian, Gray Tree1911

The Flowering Apple, 1912

Piet Mondrian

Trees

1912

Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1913

Piet Mondrian

Composition in Brown and Gray

1913-14

Ocean and Pier #5, 1915

De Stijl - “The Style” in Dutch: An art movement that began in 1917 advocating pure abstraction and simplicity -- forms reduced to the rectangle and other geometric shapes, and color to the primary colors, along with black and white.

Piet Mondrian was the group's leading figure. He maintained that art should not concern itself with reproducing images of real objects, but should express only the universal absolutes that underlie reality.

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Gray and Light Brown

1918

Composition with Color Planes and Gray Lines, 1918

Piet Mondrian

Composition A: Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue

1920

Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1921

Mondrian’s mature technique was based on intuition but carried through with meticulous care.

The composition was first drafted with charcoal on paper or canvas.

Painted pieces of paper and strips of tape pinned and tacked to the canvas in a complex collage were used until the final composition was achieved.

They were then laboriously removed and replaced with non-textural oil paint to complete the work.

Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and

Black

1924-25

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue,

Red, and Gray"

1921

                                                                                         

                                      

Piet MondrianPlace de la Concorde1938-1943

Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie-Woogie

1942-43

Rietveld-Schroder House, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mondrian – Red, Blue, Yellow Chair

                                                                               

Robe "Mondrian", par Yves Saint-Laurent (1967)

Henri MatisseFrench (1869-1954)

Dinner Table. 1897

Henri Matisse

Studio under the Eaves.

1903

(mostly tints and shades of low-intensity colors)

Fauvism is style of painting that flourished in France from 1898 to 1908.

It used pure, brilliant color, applied straight from the paint tubes in an aggressive, direct manner to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas.

An art critic coined the term “Les Fauves” or “Wild Beasts” in referring to this group of artists and their wild, reckless use of intense color.

Green Stripe (Madame Matisse)

1905

Andre Derain

Portrait of Henri Matisse

1905

Henri Matisse

Open Window, Collioure.

1905

Henri Matisse, Interior at Collioure. 1905

Henri Matisse

Seated Riffian

1912

Harmony in Red, La Desserte

1908

Matisse's Fauvist years were superseded by an experimental period, as he abandoned three-dimensional effects in favor of dramatically simplified areas of pure color, flat shape, and strong pattern.

Henri Matisse, The Dance , 1909

Henri Matisse, The Dance II, 1910

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911

The Goldfish

1912

La Musique

1939

Icarus (Jazz)

1943-44

Henri Matisse, Polynesia, the Sea, 1946