Urban Animals - Art Gallery of Alberta
Urban Animals - Art Gallery of Alberta
Urban Animals - Art Gallery of Alberta
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The <strong>Alberta</strong> Foundation for the <strong>Art</strong>s Travelling Exhibition Program<br />
The History <strong>of</strong> Abstraction: A Survey con’t<br />
Henri Matisse<br />
Harmony in Red, 1908<br />
André Derain<br />
Charing Cross Bridge, London 1906<br />
National <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Art</strong>, Washington<br />
The paintings <strong>of</strong> the Fauve artists were characterised by seemingly wild brush work and strident<br />
colours and, in their focus on colour over line and drawing, the subjects <strong>of</strong> their paintings came<br />
to be characterized by a high degree <strong>of</strong> simplification and abstraction.<br />
Pablo Picasso<br />
Les Demoiselles d/ Avignon, 1907<br />
Museum <strong>of</strong> Modern <strong>Art</strong><br />
New York, New York<br />
Pablo Picasso<br />
Portrait <strong>of</strong> Ambroise Vollard,<br />
1910<br />
While the Impressionists and Fauve artists are the direct ancestors <strong>of</strong> the abstract<br />
movement in 20th century art, the real creator <strong>of</strong> abstraction was Pablo Picasso. Picasso<br />
used primative art from Africa and Oceania as a ‘battering ram’ against the classical<br />
conception <strong>of</strong> beauty. Picasso made his first cubist paintings, such as Les Demoiselles<br />
d’Avignon, based on Cézanne’s idea that all depiction <strong>of</strong> nature can be reduced to three solids:<br />
cube, sphere and cone. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso continued his experiments and<br />
invented facet or analytical cubism. As expressed in the Portrait <strong>of</strong> Ambroise Vollard, Picasso<br />
created works which can no longer be read as images <strong>of</strong> the external world but as worlds <strong>of</strong> their<br />
own.<br />
AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479<br />
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