We opened with some works by Picasso, and my favorite was debatably his most well-known: “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. There’s something almost eerie about the work; it’s confrontational, with the subjects in full frontal. Picasso’s works were not representational (in the sense that they were not a reproduction of reality, not “mimetic”, as Prof. put it.) Instead they are free from “real-world” restraints of line color, and plane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I found interesting Prof’s comment on the usage of stenciled text in analytic cubist works. As with newspaper clippings and bits of wallpaper, text serves as an element of reality snuck into the abstraction. We talked a bit about how this reflected Henri Bergson’s philosophy regarding the multi-faceted-ness of the experience. Cubism is painted from a multiplicity of vantage points, allowing the viewer to simultaneously experience individual perceptions of reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We moved onto Dadaism, and talked a bit about its upcomings. Following the first industrial war came the death of the ideal of progress through technological innovation, and the positive perception of industrialization in general. With this came an overall mistrust of human civilization and a retreat into the nonsensical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duchamp’s “Fountain” has been my favorite ever since I was little, but now even moreso. The way Duchamp took reduction to the extreme, reducing the role of the artist to pointing at a urinal and calling it art is incredulous and iconic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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