A History of European Art

allowing the colors to mix in the eye, as Impressionist theory held, then using smaller strokes and subdividing the colors still ...

Lecture 45: Beyond Impressionism—From Seurat to Matisse direction, they have no movement, and they contribute to the stasis of t ...

we see the Day of the God (1894). Astonishingly, this masterpiece of the South Seas was painted in Paris! A wooden idol is at th ...

Lecture 45: Beyond Impressionism—From Seurat to Matisse Of course, we must look at The Starry Night (1889), a painting that is m ...

We close this lecture with Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life) (1905). We see a wonderful pair of ¿ gures in the right-hand co ...

Lecture 45: Beyond Impressionism—From Seurat to Matisse Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Line), 1905, oil on canvas, 16 x 1 ...

Cubism and Early Modern Painting ................................................ Lecture 46 This lecture will cover a span of a ...

Lecture 46: Cubism and Early Modern Painting art of El Greco, like the later art of Goya, was to become an important source for ...

shows the road to Cubism, the dissecting and reshaping of objects with the artist’s scalpel, which is his brush. Looking at our ...

Lecture 46: Cubism and Early Modern Painting to be different moments, or “periods,” of his work, but they are coherent, even ine ...

This painting was commissioned by a Russian merchant living in Paris, Sergei Shchukin, for his dining room in the Trubetskoi Pal ...

Lecture 46: Cubism and Early Modern Painting Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte, and as with these works, we are left w ...

Henri Matisse: Harmony in Red (The Tablecloth), 1908–09, oil on canvas, 5’ 10” x 7’ 2” (180 x 221 cm), The State Hermitage Museu ...

Lecture 46: Cubism and Early Modern Painting Describe the elements of Cubism seen in Braque’s Table with Pipe. What is your per ...

Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi ........................................ Lecture 47 Today we’re going to talk about modern s ...

Lecture 47: Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi from Michelangelo’s Dying Slave; the evidence is the raised right arm. In Rodin’ ...

In another detail of the doors, we see Ugolino and his Children and the same ¿ gures enlarged to more than life-size in a plaste ...

Lecture 47: Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi with different-colored patinas, from black to silvery-gray to the more familiar ...

Gabo’s Constructed Head No. 2 (1916; enlarged version 1966). Gabo’s ¿ rst two constructed heads of 1915–1916 were made of small ...

Lecture 47: Modern Sculpture—Rodin and Brancusi Constantin Brancusi: Bird in Space, 1932–40, polished brass, 5’ H (151 cm H), So ...