Abstract and Non-Objective Art

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STYLE  ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• believe that all art is abstract (not real but a representation)
• abstraction: geometric/non-objective (Malevich, Kandinsky)
• Law of Inner Necessity: psychological aspect of color (Kandinsky), colors activate and are required by painting
• Suprematism: feeling is significant, basic
• movement between forms, tension
• De Stijl: created by vanDoesburg: want intrinsic to new world experience
  • believe art had power to change world for better
  • exalt truth, beauty avobe inanities of world
• primary colors
• relationship of lines (vertical, horizontal, diagonal)

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Suprematism and Constructivism (Russia)
De Stijl (Holland)

SUPREMATISM AND CONSTRUCTIVISM (Russia)
Kasimir Malevich Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying 1915
Vladimir Tatlin Monument to the 3rd International 1920 Russian
Naum Gabo Column 1923 Russian
DE STIJL (Holland)
Piet Mondrian Comporisition in Blue, Yellow, and Black 1936 Dutch
Hans Arp Human Concretion 1935 Alsatian
Constantin Brancusi Bird in Space 1928 Rumanian
Henry Moore Reclining Figure 1939 British

VOCAB

Law of Inner Necessity
Suprematism
De Stijl

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