JAV120H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp
Name
Artist
Time
Description
Movement
Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon
Pablo Picasso
1907
This painting is the
symbol of pre-cubism.
“Demoiselle d’Avignon”
painted in 1907, the
beginning of the art
movement cubism, it’s
main idea is about
women right. In this
painting. There are 5
prostitutes, they cannot
claim for themselves, but
Pablo Picasso can. By
using an artwork, he
claims about the absent
of women power in the
society. Their face was
inspired by the African
Mask, which is a symbol
of dangerous spirits and
disease that represent the
illness of the society.
Pre-Cubist:
Started: 1907
Ended: 1909
Under the effect of the pre-
cubism, artist try to explore their
painting in more angles, by open
the figure out and applying
shading. This art movement starts
by Pablo Picasso. He wants to
open a 3-demential subject in to a
2-dementional plan.
Still Life with Fan
Pablo Picasso
1911
Oil painting
Analytical cubism: Analytical
cubism is the early phase of
cubism which characterized by a
fragmentary appearance of
multiple viewpoints and
overlapping planes.
Started: 1909
Ended: 1912
Characteristic:
- Structure dissection of the
subject (结构解剖)
- Viewpoint-by-viewpoint
- Multiple viewpoints and
overlapping planes
- Simplified palette of
colors, in order to prevent
viewers from getting
Pedestal Table
Georges Braque
1911
Oil painting
interesting about how
based in the vision that
how the vision of light
hitting in different part
of an object
Man with a guitar
Georges Braque
1911
Oil painting
Mandolin Player
Pablo Picasso
1911
Oil painting
Man with a Violin
Georges Braque
1911-
1912
Oil painting
Nude Descending a
Staircase No. 2
Marcel Duchamp
1912
“Nude Descending the
staircase” is an oil
painting created by
Marcel Duchamp
inspired by Eadweard
Muybridge’s motion
photography. It is the
advance pieces of
cubism by including
movement and time.
This leads audience into
a 4-dementional space
from 2-dementional
space.
distraction from the
structure of the form and
density of the image
Main mediums:
- Oil on canvas
Important artists:
- Pablo Picasso
- George Braque
Still life with Chair
Caning
Pablo Picasso
1912
Collage of oil
Oilcloth and Pasted
paper
Synthetic cubism: Synthetic
Cubism presents collage into 2-
dementional form.
Started: 1912
Ended: 1914
The WWI begin in 1914-1918.
During the art movement
synthetic cubism, there are many
elements in the artwork is about
the society and the social
environment.
Characteristic:
- Different surfaces
- Different textures
- Collage elements
- Merged subject matter
- Collage materials
Main mediums:
- Collage of oil
- Pasted paper
Important artists:
Guitar, Sheet Music,
and Glass
Pablo Picasso
1912
Pasted paper
Charcoal(木炭)
Art is like a mirror it
reflects the real social
environment.
Still Life (Au Bon
Marche)
Pablo Picasso
1912-
1913
Oil on pasted paper
Fruit Dish and
Glass
Georges Braque
1912
Charcoal and pasted
paper
Fruit Dish,
"Quotidien du Midi"
Georges Braque
1912
Oil and sand
Newspaper, Bottle,
Packet of Tobacco
(Le Courrier)
George Braque
1914
Collages
Glass of Beer and
Playing Cards
Juan Gris
1913
Oil and paper collage
- Pablo Picasso
- George Braque
- Juan Gris
Breakfast
Juan Gris
1914
Paper collage
Crayon and oil
Juan Gris works are
more colorful than
Picasso and Braque.
PL 248 Sitting down
on the ground
Eadweard
Muybrige
1886
Photography
20th Century Modernism
Important artist:
Eadweard Muybrige
Eadweard Muybrige use chimera
to capture a series of movement
and present them by combining
images together in order to give
audience a strong visual impact of
how to generate motion in
photograph.
Daisy Jumping a
Hurdle
Eadweard
Muybrige
1887
Galloping Horse,
Eadweard
Muybridge
1878
Guaranty Building
Dankmar Adler &
Louis H. Sullivan
1894-
1895
By using the steel to
hold the building up and
the invention of elevator
gives this building the
ability to build up. The
walls in the building
cannot support the roof,
therefore the structure
inside of this building is
what does matter which
are the steel skeletons.
This building symbolize
how architect take
advantages of vertical
space by using modern
technologies.
Chicago Style Architecture:
Started:1832
Ended:1907
They were among the first to
promote the new technologies of
steel-frame construction in
commercial buildings, and
developed a spatial aesthetic
which coevolved with, and then
came to influence, parallel
developments in European
Modernism.
Characteristic:
- Commercial style
- New technologies
- Steel frame (skeleton)
Important artist:
- Louis H Sullivan
Document Summary
Under the effect of the pre- cubism, artist try to explore their painting in more angles, by open the figure out and applying shading. He wants to open a 3-demential subject in to a. Demoiselle d"avignon painted in 1907, the beginning of the art movement cubism, it"s main idea is about women right. There are 5 prostitutes, they cannot claim for themselves, but. By using an artwork, he claims about the absent of women power in the society. Mask, which is a symbol of dangerous spirits and disease that represent the illness of the society. Oil painting interesting about how based in the vision that how the vision of light hitting in different part of an object. Analytical cubism: analytical cubism is the early phase of cubism which characterized by a fragmentary appearance of multiple viewpoints and overlapping planes. Simplified palette of colors, in order to prevent viewers from getting. Nude descending the staircase is an oil painting created by.
