Mar 10, 2022
Randall talks to Chris about the transition to modernism in painting.
slideshow download:
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Timeline:
1863 -- Salon des Refusés
1874 -- Impression, Sunrise by Monet
1875 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler paints Nocturne in Black and
Gold -- The Falling Rocket
1877 -- John Ruskin published his attack on the paintings of James
McNeill Whistler exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery
1878 -- Whistler v Ruskin trial (https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24650)
1881 -- Paul Gauguin moves to Tahiti. His avowed intent was to
escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and
conventional"
1884 -- Georges Seurat founds theory of chromoluminarism,
divisionism
1886 -- Symbolism coined
1888 -- Cloisonnism coined
1889 -- Synthetism coined
1890 -- Whistler publishes The Gentle Art of Making Enemies with
full transcript of case
1903 -- Gauguin dies
1903 - 1906 -- Gauguin retrospectives in Paris
1903 -- Kandinsky paints the Blue Rider
Topics discussed include:
"alternative" art
alternative music
Camille Pisarro
Impressionism
Eugène Delacroix
Islamic art
Zen art
Alexander Cozens inkblots
traditional African art
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Positivism
recorded March 7, 2022
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