ep90: The road to modernism
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Randall talks to Chris about the transition to modernism in painting.
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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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