Lecture 14 Fauvism & Expressionism

[@PumpkinBecki]

Thank you for bringing in Franz Marc, he is my favourite artist. I saw his "Dog in front of the world" (aka "The White Dog") at an exhibition in London in the early 1990s, and it stopped me in my tracks. It was one of the last exhibits on the way to the gift shop, and we'd seen dozens of works by Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Matisse, Cezanne, Degas etc etc etc...but this, this piece stole my heart and changed my whole art appreciation world for ever.

[@boriskapchits7727]

What a great explanation on Kandinsky art! I think that in his autobiography Nabokov mentioned that from a very early age he saw colors in letters, there is even a nice explanation that the Latin letters are colored for him a bit differently than the similarly looking Cyrillic letters. And, from a very different perspective, there is a nice moment in Disney's "Ratatouille" animation, where it is shown that the protagonist feels taste as music and color.

[@isabellaisaziga3788]

Hilma Alf Klint was the first artist to work in wholly abstraction !

[@arielunbound]

Just about to comment on that too!

[@normanstratford9329]

I think that compositional elements are equated to music as we tend to reach for words and often use the musical terms instead . English language is so inadequate to describe colour spaces on a 2D surface. Sometimes we can say that it is like the colours of Monet, but it still does not give full description of a red sun reflecting yellow on water. It takes time to learn a few words that one can associate with paintings and used in lectures or conversations in art.

[@jaumemarcal9036]

Thank you so much Travis for this and all you beautiful lectures!! In particular l find this one too short compared to others, please expulsin us Moré about Mangin, van dongen, dufy, braque, heckel, Munter, pechstein...

[@alzbetapetrinovapraguestep2508]

I love your lectures. I would be interested in your opinion on a pioneer of Abstract art Frantisek (Francis) Kupka and his Amorpha from 1912.

[@robertmather6152]

Very informative and well done. Thank you.

[@renzo6490]

The”widow of Gustav Mahler” was Alma Schindler Mahler

[@og1kanobi40]

When i do the gentle jab you described I saw a crows eye.

[@Dino_Medici]

4:12 Bro you kill me hahahah I love your enthusiasm 💀

[@pauldougherty1585]

what about hilma af klimt

[@lakshmanankomathmanalath]

😍

[@Dino_Medici]

19:19 We love a king who has to run to the butcher shop to get more blood to freshen up his cow carcass to paint still lives 🥩🥩🥩🤴🤴🤴🤴

[@franzdoreza5230]

As an artist, from the school of the arts state of Chicago… SAIC, I’m already familiar with art history and because I spent so much time in the museum… The modern Masters were my best teachers and of course my studio parent teacher absolutely concurred… I really don’t need a breakdown of the movements and all that I just wanted a visual documentary or a visual show of all the work from the artist not an explanation because I don’t really care all they care about is the artwork doesn’t matter to me why or what because it was during that time. It’s during that time. That had a lot of volatility but that’s fine the world is always volatile it’s never addressed there’s never really piece so if you do create another documentary or a slideshow I would just love to see the artwork everything from German expressionism to Abstract expressionism and everything in between fauvism, guys like Georges Roualt, Pierre Bonnard, Motherwell, Picasso, German expressionism, Egon Schiele , and especially willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, and I’m probably for getting a few more but basically a slideshow of all kinds of art from those movements I don’t really care about the background are the reasons or whatever it was happening at the time I just care about the artwork… If you could do that that would be fantastic if not I understand.. because sometimes political reasons can ruin it… The creative and artistic reasons are what matters… Not overly intellectualized… Just make it about the artwork… Thank you so much for your tim e

[@gaemr_o5147]

You are the definition of a midwit, and you know it too.

[@arielunbound]

Hilma af Klimt!

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

30:04 imagine the b--ls it took to come up with this....

[@franzdoreza5230]

It’s so ridiculous how many useless and uninformed artists out there have no idea what abstract painting is… In fact abstraction can be considered anything from impressionism, Claude Monet’s lilies were abstract, anything that wasn’t basically from a photograph was obstructed as soon as the artist put his brush down to paint it image… Especially if it’s not meant to be realistic… But it captures the moment he captures the atmosphere and he does it in different ways… fauvism is one of my favorite forms of the abstract art, cubism was a Abstract art collage, rosenberg, when art was controlled only by the artist and not controlled by the wealthy and powerful so they can have their purchase done, like the pope in the Vatican all those guys or the rich Dutch masters or Saxe-Coburg Gotha, royal family with a fake last name… A.k.a. Windsors… Art was just about documenting people but mostly documenting the wealthy not the real people of course over a few that were just painting seems like van Gogh, other artist who would paint just every day scenes of life which was much more powerful… Anyway thank you for your lecture but I hope next time you can just create some videos that are pretty much a slideshow of the whole world of Expressionism post impressionism yada yada yada you know what I’m saying… Thank you so much and take care… By the way if you ever wanna see my work, it’s under IG frankiedynomite… Instagram can be so ridiculous because it never allows you to post paintings that are vertical or horizontal… Quite annoying