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C O U R S E
Art History for Artists, Animators and Gamers
Jeannene Przyblyski, California Institute of the Arts
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C O U R S E L E C T U R E The Importance of Artist Communities and Networks Notes taken on August 25, 2014 by Edward Tanguay |
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communities and networks
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artists and creative people need communities and networks in order to flourish
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the history of much of modern art is a history of people who either found their community and their networks or they didn't
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this wasn't always the case
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Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware
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Willem Claesz Heda, 1635
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Netherlands
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is painting in a world in which most of the people who look at the painting are going to agree that this is a valuable, desirable and maybe even just world
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the middle class is rising into power in Holland in the 17th century
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wealth and the ability to be successful in the world is founded upon trade and the ability to be able to manage money, and hard work
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good food, beautiful glassware, lemons, oysters, all signs that you have arrived in the world of wealth through hard work
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Heda knows who his audience is and paints for them
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the audience knows how to read this work and there is mutual congratulation
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the period with modern art is fraught with different kinds of stories
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Oleanders
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Vincent Van Gogh, 1888
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Van Gogh is remarkable not for how well he fit into his world, but how well he didn't fit into his world
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he's painting in the same still life genre as Heda 250 years early in which they both highlight and find beauty in ordinary things
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the heroic myth of the misunderstood genius, someone who didn't receive a lot of recognition during his lifetime even though many years after he died his painting became extremely valuable
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during his lifetime, if you read his letters, he hear him longing for just one other person to see the beauty in the colors he painted with and his obsessive working of surfaces
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this is typical of artists who are pushing the boundaries of what is known and how things can be represented
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Picasso and Braque
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living together in tenement building in Montmartre, Paris
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Picasso from Spain, Braque from south of France to Bohemian culture
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they found each other in Le Bateau-Lavoir
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Pablo Picasso, The Poet, 1911
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Georgs Braque, Man with a Guitar, 1911
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these paintings are more comfortable to look at as abstractions
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when you say they are paintings of something, you have to do the work of figuring out the spatial relationships
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they believed that Cubism was a new language of representation and to be a language, you needed at least one other person to speak it
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husbands and wives in modern art
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Diego Rivera
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1933: Man, Controller of the Universe
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mural
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Mexico City
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painted on a monumental scale
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bent upon taking on major themes of modern life
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married at the time
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to artist
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she had a tragic life
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her place in art history was because she found her community
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feminist practice of art
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theme: artists going after artists like them
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a collective might be as small as two people or any size
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husband and wife
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group of sisters
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helps an artist feel that their work is recognized and appreciated in his lifetime
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artwork:
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Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware (1635)
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Willem Claesz Heda
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a painting which reflects the middle class having risen into power in Holland in the 17th century where wealth and the ability to be successful in the world is founded upon trade and the ability to be able to manage money, hard work
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the good food, beautiful glassware, lemons, oysters, all signs that you have arrived in the world
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most of the people who look at the painting are going to agree that this is a valuable, desirable and maybe even just world
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Heda knows who his audience is and paints for them
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#..#stilllifewithoysters
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Oleanders (1888)
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Vincent Van Gogh
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a painting that shows the same still life genre as Heda 250 years early in which they both highlight and find beauty in ordinary things, yet Van Gogh is remarkable not for how well he fit into his world, but how well he didn't fit into his world
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heroic myth of the misunderstood genius, someone who didn't receive a lot of recognition during his lifetime even though many years after he died his painting became extremely valuable
•
during his lifetime, if you read his letters, he hear him longing for just one other person to see the beauty in the colors he painted with and his obsessive working of surfaces
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this is typical of artists who are pushing the boundaries of what is known and how things can be represented
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#..#oleanders