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Category: Art and Illustration

  • Sir Herbert Read: Modern Artists Index List

    Paul Gauguin The Spirit of the Dead Watches. 1892 Raoul Dufy Ste-Adresse. 1906 Albert Marquet The Pont Neuf. 1906 André Derain Still-life. c. 1907 Georges Rouault Aunt Sallies. 1907 Henri Matisse The Blue Nude. 1907 Paula Modersohn Becker Self-portrait. 1907 Kees van Dongen Woman with Hat. 1908 Wassily Kandinsky Landscape with Tower. 1908 Pablo Picasso…

  • Paul Klee – Pedagogical Sketchbook (TRM’s notes)

    Introduction  By Sibyl Moholy –Nagy ‘For the artist communication with nature remains the most essential condition. The artist is human; himself nature; part of nature within natural space.’ This statement, written in 1923 by Paul Klee, was the Leitmotif of a creative life that derived almost equal inspiration from painting and from music. Man painted…

  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Kandinsky (TRM’s notes)

    Concerning the Spiritual in Art                         W. Kandinsky Preface Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on December 4th, 1866 an aristocratic family father – a successful tea-merchant many years of study Academic success Odessa in the Crimea 1892 appointed lecturer in jurisprudence at Moscow University…

  • History of Western American Art – Prof. Levine – (TRM’s notes)

    History of Western American Art Professor F. Levine (CSU) a journey The nature of the spiral Never can see center Art as philosophy Tells you what you’re about Your culture Association Cyclical Products of culture – product of earth Clouds Spiritual breath Spiritual rain – growth Sky – father Earth – mother Wherefrom you come…

  • Illustration by J. Hillis Miller (TRM’s highlights)

      Illustration        by J. Hillis Miller Dartmouth School of Criticism and Theory Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ Fascism Communism Jean Joseph Goux Aestheticization Politicization Katmandu , Nepal – VCR movies – L.A. Law, Miami Vice Althusser Impensee’ A blindness What Are Cultural Studies? New historical studies as applied…

  • A Concise History of Modern Painting by Sir Herbert Read (TRM’s notes)

    “A Concise History of Modern Painting”     by Herbert Read chpt. 1 The Origins of Modern Art –              Proceeds backwards –              burst of energy then decline –             “debauchery” –              law not of progress but of “reaction” –             R.G.  Collingwood,  ‘The Principles of Art’ –              philosophy describes art as a “conceiving of the world visually” –              an…