ism ppt
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Abstractionism is…“Art that makes no direct, immediately
discernible reference to recognizable objects”
Subjects are exactly what you see: color, line, shape.
Movement began around 1911 with artist Wassily Kandinsky. This movement was mostly concentrated in Europe.
Wassily (Vasily) Kandinsky“For me, the province of art and the province of nature thus became more and more widely separated, until I was able to experience both as completely independent realms.”
Timeline of Kandinsky 1866: Born in Moscow to a highly educated family.
1896: Moved to Munich, Germany and studied art. (Art School of Anton Azbe and The Academy of Fine Arts.)
1909: Moved towards abstraction.
1911: Founded “Der Blaue Reiter” group
1912: Concerning the Spiritual in Art was published(foundation of abstractionism)
1920: Founded Moscow institute of Artistic Culture.
1923: Taught at Bauhaus
1933: Moved to Paris
1944: Died
Influences (Kandinsky)Influences on Kandinsky
Influences caused by Kandinsky
Paul CézanneClaude Monet
William BaziotesArshile GorkyHans HartungHans Hofmann
Post-ImpressionismFauvismCubism Expressionism
Action Painting Color Field PaintingSurrealism
Developments in science, philosophy, and political and social changes were also influences on Kandinsky’s work.
Kasimir Malevich
"Feeling is the determining factor ... and thus art arrives at non-objective representation through Suprematism."
Timeline of Malevich 1878: Born in Ukraine to a middle class family.
1895: Studied at the Kiev School of Art
1904: Studied at the Stroganov School of Art
1907: Shift to more Avant-Garde art
1915: Found the Suprematism movement
1915: Beginning of Black Series, White on White followed
1918: Worked for Government Fine Arts Dept. Taught Abstractionism.
1919: Completed manuscript of his book On New Systems in Art
1935: Death
Influences (Malevich)Influences on Malevich Influences caused by Malevich
Paul CézannePablo PicassoHenri MatisseEl Lissitzky
El LissitzkyWassily KandinskyMarcel DuchampPaul KleeAd Reinhardt
FauvismCubismExpressionismByzantine ArtTransrational PoetryFuturism
ConstructivismAbstract ExpressionismMinimalismPop ArtConceptual Art
Malevich also had an interest in aerial photography and aviation, leading to aerial landscape inspired paintings.
Piet Mondrian "The emotion of
beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture."
Timeline of Mondrian 1872: Born in Holland to a cultured family
1892: Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam
1905: Painted in Dutch Luminist Style
1908: Netherland’s Theosophical Society. (Evolution
1911)
1912 - 1914: Lived in Paris. Cubist influence. 1917: De Stijl Journal (The Style). Idea of total
abstraction, modernism, led to Neo-Plasticism movement.
1920s: Most abstract period
1938: London. 1940: Because of WWII moves to NYC (Broadway Boogie
Woogie 1943)
1944: Death
Influences (Mondrian)Influences on Mondrian Influences caused by
Mondrian
Vincent van GoghPaul CézannePablo PicassoTheo van Doesburg
Ilya BolotowskyLeon Polk SmithTheo van DoesburgPeggy Guggenheim
PhilosophyBuddhism/Theosophical studiesCubismImpressionismFauvismLuminism
De StijlAbstract ExpressionismColor Field PaintingMinimalism
"All the time I'm driven to the spiritual. Through Theosophy I became aware that art could provide a transition to the finer regions, which I will call the spiritual realm."
Georgia O’Keeffe“I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.”
Timeline of O’Keeffe 1887: Born in Wisconsin and received art lessons at home
1905: Art Institute of Chicago, then Arts Students League in NYC
1908: Won William Merritt Chase still-life prize
1912 - 1916: Taught art at various schools
1916-1946: Husband Stieglitz supported her art and organized exhibitions at different galleries.
1929: New Mexico landscape paintings
1970s: Though going blind, still produced abstract pieces
1986: Death in New Mexico
Influences (O’Keeffe)
Influences on O’Keeffe Influences caused by O’Keeffe
Arthur Wesley DowAlon BementAuguste RodinWassily KandinskyAlfred Stieglitz
Judy ChicagoAndy Warhol
Asian ArtArt NouveauModernism
American Modernist PaintingPrecisionismAbstract Expressionism
She was also influenced by the architecture of NYC and the landscapes of New Mexico.
Political and Social Climate Political and Social changes in Europe.
Ex: Russian Revolution, Communism World War I & II. Caused relocation of
artists. Science and Philosophy. Ex: Freud,
Einstein Avant-Garde Movement and creative
independence = a reaction to industrialization and political conflict
Reactions “The Nazis confiscated 57 of
Kandinsky’s canvases during their purge of "degenerate art" in 1937”
Stalinist regime was against abstract art and banned much of Malevich’s work as well.
Many males perceived O’Keeffe’s work as over sexualized and “shameless.”
Public opinion of Mondrian’s work was divided; ranging from “aesthetically pleasing” to “a child could do it.”