art

A beginner’s guide to 20th century art

• Representation + abstraction: Millais’s Ophelia and Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis
• Art + context: Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich’s White on White
• An Introduction to Photography in the early 20th century

An introduction

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

• Street, Berlin, 1913 (video from MoMA)
• Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915

Wassily Kandinsky

• Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912
• Brief film of the artist painting

Alexej von Jawlensky,  Young Girl in a Flowered Hat, 1910

Egon Schiele

• Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1910
• Portrait of Wally Neuzil, 1912

A beginner’s guide to Fauvism

Henri Matisse

• Bonheur de Vivre The Joy of Life), 1905-06
• Dance I, 1909
• The Red Studio, 1911
• Goldfish, 1912
• Conserving Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool, 1952 (video from MoMA)

Pablo Picasso (early)

• Early Work
• Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1905-06
• Reconstruction of Stein’s Paris studio
• Inventing Cubism,  quiz
• Picasso and the new language of Cubism
• Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
• Reservoir, Horta de Ebro, 1908

Georges Braque

• Viaduct at L’Estaque, 1908
• The Portuguese, 1911,  quiz

Pablo Picasso (later)

• Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912
• Guitar, Glass, and Bottle, 1913
• Guitar, 1912-14
• Guernica, 1937

Fernand Léger,  Contrast of Forms, 1913

Italian Futurism, an introduction

Carlo Carrà,  Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, 1910-11

Giacomo Balla,  Street Light, c. 1910-11

Umberto Boccioni

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
• Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913

Dada  quiz

• Introduction to Dada ( essay)

Marcel Duchamp

• Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2
• In Advance of the Broken Arm, 1915/1964
• The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23
• Fountain, 1917/1964,  quiz

Raoul Hausmann,  Spirit of the Age: Mechanical Head, 1919