“The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art” - Timothy R. Quigley

“The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art” - Timothy R. Quigley “The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art” - Timothy R. Quigley

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Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsEmergence of New Criteria and Proliferation of StylesIn the pre-modern era, it was taken for granted that the role of painting wasprimarily to represent or depict various aspects of the objective world.Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife,1434Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsEmergence of New Criteria and Proliferation of StylesThis understanding of painting as a representational medium was calledinto question and abandoned by many artists in the first half of the 20 thcentury.Wassily Kandinsky, Composition IV, 1911Wassily Kandinsky, Blue Mountain, 1908–09Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsEmergence <strong>of</strong> New Criteria and Proliferation <strong>of</strong> StylesIn the pre-modern era, it was taken for granted that the role <strong>of</strong> painting wasprimarily to represent or depict various aspects <strong>of</strong> the objective world.Jan van Eyck, Portrait <strong>of</strong> Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife,1434Jacques-Louis David, The Death <strong>of</strong> Socrates, 1787Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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