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Recommended Readings
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Theories of Modern Art : A Source Book by Artists
by Herschel B. Chipp
Editorial Reviews -- San Francisco Chronicle
The richest, most thorough and authoritative anthology of theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Czanne.
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Abstract Art (World of Art)
by Anna Moszynska
An excellent introduction to Abstract Art, this book is a great refresher course for those of us who have forgotten everything we were supposed to have learned in Art Appreciation classes.
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Concepts of Modern Art : From Fauvism to Portmodernism (World of Art)
by Nikos Stangos (Editor)
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
In the summer of 1906, during Picasso's stay in Gosol, Spain, his work entered a new phase, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian, and African art. The key work of this early period, is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).
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Le Grand Nu
Braque's monumental nude is a variant on one of the Demoiselles figures, no less bold in distortion, more severely sculptural. This is his first response to Picasso, after viewing his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Analytical Cubism
Cubists rejected such subject as remote and often incomprehensible and insisted instead that art should deal with the real everyday world: natural or man-made and with a common, everyday human experience.
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Cubism examples
Facet Cubism: Girl with the Mandolin
Girl with a Mandolin is not only one of the most beautiful, lyrical and accessible of all Cubist paintings, but is also a valuable document of the period. For the fact that at the time Picasso saw the work as unfinished, allows us an insight into his aesthetic intentions and his technical procedure.
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Still Life with Chair-caning
When early in 1912 Picasso created his Still Life with chair-caning, using extraneous objects stuck to the picture surface -- the first collage painting -- he introduced reality literally and physically. Picasso's collages were a development of Braque's experiment in the same year with papier colles, pasted cut-papers which acted both as formal elements of the composition and representationally...
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Speed and the Machine
The particular conditions of the 20th century introduced the heady intoxication of speed and the power of the machine as new material to draw upon. The sense of excitement was encapsulated in the fourth point of the first Italian Futurist manifesto, published in Le Figaro (Paris, 1909): The declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched with a new form of beauty, the beauty of speed.
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The Age of Machinery
Delaunays: Robert Delaunay moved from a Cubist technique in which colour and construction were all-important towards non-objective colour compositions which foreshadow later developments. Duchamp and Picabia: In 1912 he developed, with Picabia and Apollinaire, the radical and ironic ideas that independently prefigured the official founding of Dada in 1916 in Zurich... also info on Futurism and Malevich.
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Machine Age features in Cubism and Futurism
The machine and the revolution of mechanical industry took Europe by storm. Many new structures made of steel and glass were constructed, mass production of automobiles and other vehicles progressed, new materials never before readily available were suddenly everywhere.
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Russian Art - Suprematism
In Malevich's later development of Dynamic Suprematism (1915), smaller geometric forms are superimposed upon larger elements. Consequently, a sense of floating movement becomes more evident than in the previous works, and a much greater spatial tug is established between the shapes, although the white ground remains consistent with the earlier paintings.
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