MODERNISM COLOLONIALISM Gauguin Yellow Christ 1889 Madonna Like

MODERNISM/ COLOLONIALISM

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

MODERNISM EXPRESSIONISM PRIMITIVISM COLOLONIALISM

MODERNISM IS…. 1) A break with TRADITION 2) When HISTORY becomes a problem 3) Importance of ORIGINALITY 4)The result of encountering non. Western art 5) A series of ARGUMENTS between artists

Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

Photograph of Gauguin, 1888 Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889

Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ, 1889 Claude Monet, Landscape: The Park Monceau, 1876

Gauguin, self-portraits made between 1889 and 1890

Gauguin, Matu Mua/ In Olden Times, 1892 Gauguin, Matamoe/Peacocks in the Country, 1892

MODERNISM IS…. 3) Importance of ORIGINALITY

MODERNISM IS…. Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon • Modernism’s ORIGINS

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 Gauguin, Copy of Manet’s Olympia, 1891

Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 Gauguin, Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892

Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon Gauguin, In Olden Time, 1892

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

POST-GAUGUIN Henri Matisse, Blue Nude: Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nude Under a Japanese Umbrella, 1909

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