early twentieth-century art. pablo picaso (1881 – 1973) attacking conventional art history history...
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Pablo Picaso (1881 – 1973)
Attacking Conventional Art History
Commissioned by nobles and the wealthy to show power
Beauty Female nude as sensual,
alluring, & obliging Portraits
Ideal resemblance Photography
Cubism
A multiplicity of viewpoints instead of the traditional one-point perspective
Could also add the fourth dimension, time, by showing parts of same object at different times
Short, angular lines that make it look like the subject exploded and had been pieced back together
Nonobjective Art
Piet MondrianComposition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue1921, Oil on canvas
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright Influenced by Asian
architecture “Prairie School” of
architecture Rectangular and low
to the ground Fits into natural
surroundings
Bauhaus School The ideal of simplified
forms and unadornedfunctionalism.
The belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses.
Steel, concrete, chrome, glass.
Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightFallingwater, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA1936 – 1939. Reinforced concrete, stone, masonry, steel