Early Twentieth-Century Art

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

History

Diego VelasquezPhilip on a Horse

Pablo PicassoBoy with a Horse

Beauty

Paul RubensThe Three Graces

Pablo PicassoLes Demoiselles d’Avignon

Beauty

Etoumbi MaskCongo

Portraits

Pablo PicassoAmbroise Vollard

Pablo PicassoMan with a Violin

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

Marcel DuchampNude Descending a Staircase, No. 21912, Oil on canvas

Alexander ArchipenkoWoman Combing Her Hair1915, Bronze

Futurism

Giacomo BallaStreetlight1909, Oil on canvas

Futurism

Umberto BoccioniUnique Forms of Continuity in Space1913, Bronze

Henri Matisse – Fauvism

Henri MatisseMadame Matisse1905, Oil on canvas

Henri Matisse – Fauvism

Henri MatisseDance 1

Henri MatisseThe Snail1953, Gouache on paper9.5 x 9.5 feet

Nonobjective Art

Kasimir MalevichSuprematist Composition: White on Whtie1918, Oil on canvas

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 WrightRobie House, Chicago, IL1909. Brick, glass, natural rock

Wright

Frank Lloyd WrightFallingwater, Kaufmann House, Bear Run, PA1936 – 1939. Reinforced concrete, stone, masonry, steel

Bauhaus