Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

BWOOM AND NGADY AMWAASH At the court of Kuba kings, three masks, known as Mwashamboy, Bwoom, and Ngady Amwaash, represent legend ...

34-22Samburu men and women dancing, northern Kenya, photographed in 1973. Men and women in many rural areas of Africa embellish ...

posed figures and groups appear on the other sides of the house, in- cluding beautiful, amusing, or frightening figures of anima ...

TRIGO PIULAThe Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tr igo Piula(b. ca. 1950) is a painter trained in Western artistic techniques and ...

with his chained fists raised in the recur- rent protest gesture. This portrait memo- rializes both Biko and the many other anti ...

19TH CENTURY ❚Most of the traditional forms of African art continued into the 19th century. Among these are sculp- tures and shr ...

35-1Marcel Duchamp,Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2,1912. Oil on canvas, 4 10  2  11 . Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philad ...

T he first half of the 20th century was a period of significant upheaval worldwide. Between 1900 and 1945, the major industrial ...

from the ruling provisional government. The Bolsheviks, a faction of Russian Social Democrats led by Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), ...

porate capitalism, took their places, artists searched for new defini- tions of and uses for art in a changed world. Already in ...

I n an essay entitled “Notes of a Painter,” published in the Parisian journal La Grande Revueon Christmas Day, 1908, Henri Matis ...

HARMONY IN RED The maturation of Matisse’s color discover- ies coalesced in his Red Room (Harmony in Red; FIG. 35-3). The sub- j ...

Kirchner’s Street, Dresden (FIG. 35-5) provides a glimpse into the frenzied urban activity of a bustling German city before Worl ...

VASSILY KANDINSKYA second major German Expression- ist group,Der Blaue Reiter(The Blue Rider), formed in Munich in The two foun ...

Artists, Kandinsky believed, must express the spirit and their innermost feelings by orchestrating color, form, line, and space ...

a quiet mood but still possess a compelling emotional sensibility. Lehmbruck studied sculpture, painting, and the graphic arts i ...

Primitivism and Cubism The Expressionist departure from any strict adherence to illusionism in art was a path that other artists ...

DEMOISELLES D’AVIGNONThe influence of “primitive” art also surfaces in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon; F ...

Paris studio (FIG. 35-13). Perhaps responding to the energy of these two new heads, Picasso also revised their bodies. He broke ...

GEORGES BRAQUE AND CUBISM For many years, Picasso showed Les Demoiselles only to other painters. One of the first to see it was ...