MODERNISM/COLOLONIALISM

Gauguin Yellow Christ, 1889; Madonna, Like a Virgin, 1984

MODERNISMEXPRESSIONISMPRIMITIVISMCOLOLONIALISM

MODERNISM IS….1) A break with TRADITION2) When HISTORY becomes a problem3) Importance of ORIGINALITY4)The result of encountering non-Western art5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists

Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

Photograph of Gauguin, 1888

EXPRESSIONISMPaul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

IMPRESSIONISM, Claude Monet, Landscape: The Park Monceau, 1876

Gauguin, self-portraits made between 1889 and 1890

Gauguin, Matamoe/Peacocks in the Country, 1892

Gauguin, Matu Mua/ In Olden Times, 1892

MODERNISM IS….

3) Importance of ORIGINALITY

MODERNISM IS….

• Modernism’s ORIGINS

Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Gauguin, Copy of Manet’s Olympia, 1891

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

• RETORTS TO OLYMPIA

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Gauguin, Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892

Gauguin, In Olden Time, 1892

Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon

COLONIALISM

Gauguin, In Olden Time, 1892

Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon

MODERNISM IS….4) The result of encountering non-Western art

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

POST-GAUGUIN

Henri Matisse, Green Stripe/ Portrait of Madame Matisse, , 1905

FAUVISM

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nude Under a Japanese Umbrella, 1909

EXPRESSIONISM

MORE RETORTS TO OLYMPIA

Pablo Picasso, Demoiselles D’Avignon, 1907

MODERNISM IS….5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists

MODERNISM IS….5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists….which are played out on the female body

Gauguin, Sketch for Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1891-3

Faith Ringgold, French Collection, Part 1, # 7 In Picasso’s Studio, 1991

Gauguin, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Gauguin, Breton Girls Dancing, 1888