FAH270H1 Lecture Notes - Luser, Snowmobile, Color Photography
Document Summary
People got confused because pollock changed styles a few times. Relatively new technique for matisse at this time. Explores the relationship an artist has between them and what they are actually depicting. Important theme for picasso and western art is the theme of the artist in his or her studio. Is it support to politically challenge or revert to its classical roots. Represents art the tries to start over because of the question of what is art supposed to do that was posed after the carnage of war. Generation of artists that tried to wipe the slate clean so to say. Kind of anti-cultural or anti-high society art. Mix of materials, use of oil paints but also mud, dirt, working of surface. Not a painters working of the surface, more brutal. Most critics did not have a clue to what dubuffett was trying to accomplish. Not very well understood at the time.
