'The Pond-Moonlight' photograph by Edward Steichen, 1904

"What the printing press did for the word, the camera did for the image" – quote by Prof. dr. J.M. Peters, ’From word to image’ 1980

‘The Pond-Moonlight’ by Edward Steichen, 1904 - Photograph, platinum print with applied color

Size: 39.7 x 48.2 cm (15 5/8 x 19 in.) - Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Steichen

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Paul Cézanne's 'Bathers' - 1900/05

"... a feverish height rising desire for the new and the other, for a spiritualized world in contrast to the materialistic of the citizen, this call for sustainability and order, for security and freedom, for ideals and ideas, this opposition to bourgeois reality and at the same time escape from capitalist reality with its propriety of all living and its bonds, with its dehumanization of all humanitarian values, with its increasingly violent and extended problems, this opposition to an outer world and this flight to an inner world, is characteristic and stimulating at the same time." - Opposition of Abstract Art by K. Farner (1964 WB/ Cézanne 1904: father of the future painting, founder of a new platonic empire of the mind)

Paul Cézanne, ‘Bathers’ – 1900/05 - OOC 73 x 92cm – Private Collection

'Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire' by Jean Metzinger, 1910

"to permanent undermine the virtuous power" - Guillaume Apollinaire

“Guillaume Apollinaire” by Jean Metzinger (FR, 1883–1956) ooc - 55 x 46 cm

Emilio Vedova "Image of Time" - 1951

“Your actual duty is that of saving your dream.”- quote Amedeo Modigliani

 

Artist Emilio Vedova at work in his studio in Venice, 2003

"Abstract art has found the unexpected confirmation in atomic physics. All the material is dissolved in forces." - Dr. K. Farner, 1964 'Uprising in abstract art

 

‘Image of Time’ (Barrier),1951 – Egg tempera on canvas 130 x 170 cm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/4142

Emilio Vedova, Plurimo nr. 4 – Absurd Berliner Journal, 1964 Wood and iron, 206 x 360 cm. (Artist collection)

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Emilio-Vedova

Van Gogh Vincent "Postman Joseph Roulin" - 1889

"In my opinion, I am often wealthy, not in money, but (not all days though) rich because I found my work. Something which I live for with heart and soul and that gives passion and meaning to life." - Vincent Van Gogh, The Hague, March 11, 1883

Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin - Ooc 65 x 54 cm. Arles: April, 1889 - Otterlo: Kröller-Müller Museum

 

"Now I'm working on a different model, a postman in blue uniform decorated with gold, a big bearded head, very sociable. [...] A more interesting man than many other."

Oscar Jespers 'The Hooded Coat' - 1922

“Art is often a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

 

‘De Kapmantel’  carved stone, 1922 - Collection: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Still Clyfford's '1951-E'

1951-E , 1951 by Still Clyfford,  American (1904-'80), OOC - 297 x 363 cm

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (Gift of the artist, 1964)

"He rose above the commonplace that oppressed him."
Andrew Graham-Dixon about Still Clyfford in ‘Art of America’

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14

"The ceremonial perpendicular lines (lines that are at right angles of 90° to each other) are the backbone of life within space" wrote Frantisek Kupka in 'The creation of Art and Sculpture' - 1923

 

Otto Gutfreund - "Cubist bust" 1913/14, bronze H 60cm - National Gallery Collection, Prague

"Same old sh*t (c) for the so called avant garde" - J.M. Basquiat, 1979

Photo credit: Henry Flynt, 1979

 

http://flavorwire.com/226300/vintage-shots-of-jean-michel-basquiats-samo-graffiti

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Fallen Angel), 1981

Medium: acrylic and oilstick on canvas - size: 167.6 x 198.1 cm. (66 x 78 in.)

Private collection, Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY.

 

http://www.jean-michel-basquiat.org/untitled-fallen-angel/

Giacomo Balla "Automobile Speed + Light + Noise" - 1913

“The obsession to penetrate, to conquer by all means the sense of the real, to identify with life in all fibers of our body, is at the base of our search and at the base of the esthetics of all times.” – Gino Severini ‘remarks on evolution’, Le Mercure de France, 1917

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) - Velocità d’automobile + luce + rumore, 1913
Distemper on canvas, 87 x 130 cm - Kunsthaus Zürich Collection

Paul Cézanne "The Mont Sainte-Victiore" -1887

“There is a colour logic… The painter must obey it and nothing else.” - quote Paul Cézanne

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Collection: The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London

Postmodernism

"The only cure against Postmodernism is the incurable disease of Romanticism."

– quote ‘Pomo for beginners’ by R. Appignanesi and C. Garratt, 1995

"Postmodernism as thus conceived is not immediatlely a new form of the practice of art, but rather a critical redirection of tradition on the basis of a revised understanding of the immediate past." - Ideas of the Posmodern by C. Harrison & P. Wood, 1992 Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.

A Man Ray Version of Man Ray, 1960

“Accordingly the artist’s work is to be measured by the vitality, the invention, and the definiteness

 and conviction of purpose within its own medium.” – Man Ray, ‘Statement’, NY 1916

 

Photo ‘A Man Ray Version of Man Ray, 1960’ – Collection Imogen Cunningham Trust

 

Marcel Duchamp's 'Bicycle Wheel' - 1913

 

“The Dada movement is not the voluntary work of individuals, it is the fatal product

of a state of affairs.” – Alabert Gleizes ‘The Dada Case’, Paris 1920

Photo: ‘Bicycle Wheel’ (1951), metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, is the first of Duchamp’s ‘readymades’ – size: 129.5 x 63.5 x 41.9 cm - The original version of 1913 and the version of 1916-17 in NY were lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Wheel

Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" - 1907

 “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened

a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” ― Pablo Picasso



Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon)

Oil on canvas,  size: 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm (96 in × 92 in) 

Location: Museum of Modern Art - Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, New York City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” is one of the most famous works of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). It is painted in a period of nine months during 1906 and 1907, when Picasso had retreated himself to a small village in the Pyrenees. When he showed the painting to his avant-garde friends, they fell silent. Only Matisse broke out laughing.

Picasso was during a visit to the Museum of Ethnography in Paris captivated by the magical fetishes, objects that were made for the expulsion of evil spirits. Against the writer André Malraux Picasso speaks of the work as "my first devils elimination painting".

In 1916 it was shown in a private room. The name of this salon was then temporarily changed from "Le bordel d'Avignon" to "Les Demoiselles". The canvas was only shown in public for the first time in 1937. In 1939 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City bought it. It still hangs there.

(source: Honour & Flemming, General art history, Meulenhoff, Amsterdam NL).



‘The Turkish Bath’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1862-63. Louvre, Paris

Andrew Graham-Dixion in 'The Art of France' about ‘The Turkish Bath’ : "It is the painting that marked the beginning of Modern Art. With this painting Art declared itself, forever, to be the creation of the individual, cut adrift from tradition."

 

 

Fernand Khnopff's "Incense" - 1898

 

“Art transports us from the world of man’s activity to a world of aestethic excalation.”

– Clive Bell ‘The Aesthetic Hypothesis’, London  1914

“Incense” - Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), pastel on charcoal and paper, 1898, Collection: Vlaamse Gemeenschap, location: MSK Gent. (Khnopff’s sister Marguerite was model for this triptych of which only one part is made)

Gustav Klimt 'Judith I '- 1901

 

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,

but their inward significance.”- Aristotle (384-322 VC)

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Judith I (Judith and Holofernes-6e VC),

1901 Oil and gilding on canvas 84 x 42 cm

Location: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Belvedere, Vienna.

 

Egon Schiele "Mime Van Osen" 1910

“The value of a line, of a form consists for us in the value of the life that it holds for us. It holds its beauty only through our own vital feeling, which, in some mysterious manner, we project into it.” – Wilhelm Worringer (1881-1965) from ‘A contribution to the psychology of style’- 1906

Location: Courtesy of The Leopold Museum, Vienna

Technique: charcoal on watercolor, size: 37,8 x 29,7 cm

 

"Art is a kind of science of liberty." - Joseph Beuys ‘In conversation’ 1986

For Beuys, art became a 'medium for revolutionary change in the sense of completing the transformation from a sick world to a healthy one'.

'Little Owl' by Picasso 1951/53

 

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - quote Pablo Picasso