Art History: Impressionism to Early Modernism (AHIS 206-

Winter)

Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30

Instructor, Danielle Hogan

Email: hogan_danielle @shaw.ca

Futurism

Abstract Speed + Sound1913–1914Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash1912 Giacomo Balla

Omaggio a Betuda Futurista1915Carlo Carrà

Interventionist Demonstration1914Carlo Carrà

Funeral of the Anarchist Galli 1911Carlo Carrà

The City Rises1910Umberto Boccioni

The Development of a Bottle in Space1913Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space1913Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space on the 20 cent euro coin

Umberto Boccioni

Vorticism

Planners: Happy Day 1912-3Wyndham LewisPen, gouache and pencil on papersupport: 311 x 381 mm

Two Mechanics circa 1912Wyndham Lewis

Composition 1913Wyndham Lewis

Workshop circa 1914-5Wyndham Lewis

Vorticist Composition 1915Wyndham Lewis

Russian Avant-Guard

"On White II“1923Wassily Kandinsky

Kandinsky and Blue Rider

Der Blaue Reiter1903Wassily Kandinsky

1908-1914From 1908 on, Kandinsky’s painting ceased to be that of a dilettante, making its way towards an invention that would prove determinant for the history of painting: abstraction. Supported by a theoretical basis, the works of this period moved further and further away from reality, and, to the question that he formulated in one of his texts – “what must replace the object?” – Kandinsky replied with the impact of colours and lines.

-Centre George Pompidou

The Garden of Love (Improvisation Number 27), 1912Wassily Kandinsky Oil on canvas

Kandinsky at the Bauhaus 1922-33

Decisive Rose1932Wassily Kandinsky

1922-33: BauhausIn 1921, Kandinsky was director of the physical-psychological department of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences, a structure set up after the revolution. With the artistic climate deteriorating, an official mission to Germany offered him the opportunity to flee his country. A teaching position at the Bauhaus enabled him to pursue his work, even though his position as an abstract painter, in a school that was moving closer and closer to industry, was contested.

Point Line

Plane

Contrasting Sounds1924Oil on cardboard, 70x49.5cmWassily Kandinsky

Composition VIII1923Oil on canvas, 140 x 201 cmWassily Kandinsky

Yellow, Red, Blue1925Wassily Kandinsky

In the Blue1925Oil on board, 80 x 110 cmWassily Kandinsky

1934-44: ParisIn Paris, where he spent the last eleven years of his life, Kandinsky painted and drew prolifically, putting together an important body of work in which the common factor is the inspiration of images from biology, forms resembling embryos, larvae or invertebrates, a minuscule population embodying the living.

Composition X1939Oil on canvas, 130 x 195 cm Wassily Kandinsky

Landscape 471912Natalia Goncharova

The Cyclist1913Natalia Goncharova

Rayonism, Blue-Green Forest1913Natalia Goncharova

Rayonism, Blue-Green Forest1915Mikhail Larionov

Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge, lithograph1919El Lissitzky

Dance. An Objectless Composition1915Alexander Rodchenko

Suprematism

Black Square1913Kazimir Malevich

Black Circle1913Kazimir Malevich

Suprematist Composition: White on White1918 Kazimir Malevich