Primitivism

interest in societies deemed to be primitive 

return to roots/very real/basic 

rejection of middle class society-focus on basic instinct and authenticity 

closer to basic human being 

more domestic life; art of children; surrealism (subconscious primitiveness)

condescending to cultures borrowed from-out of context


 

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Rousseau, Self Portrait, 1890


compulsive attention to detail

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Rousseau, View of the Bridge at Sévres, 1908

 

ode to transportation 

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Rousseau, Carnival Evening, 18


animated by exoticism 

proto-surrealism-mystery 

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Rousseau, Child with Puppet, 19


bizarre scale-strange giant 

frontality 

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Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897


very meticulous-sophistication 

neck of guitar echoes lion's tale 

proto-surrealist sense of stillness

something imminent 

connection unconscious 

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Rousseau, War, 1894


crazed child running alongside horse

incredibly weird 

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Rousseau, Snake Charmer, 190


hyperdetail

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Rousseau, The Dream, 1910


hallucinatory quality 

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Klint, Altar Picture No.1, Group 10, 1915


paintings are visions from higher zones

looks modern but ISNT 

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Klint, Svanen, 1914-15 


looks very modern

artist is a woman who is very conservative 

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Rodia, Watts Tower, LA, California, 1921-54 


built out of found things-bottle caps, scrap metal 

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Picasso, Girl in Profile, 1901
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Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903 


blue period-symbolist period

poverty, isolation, sadness

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Picasso, The Tragedy, 1903


had a sort of all over mood 

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Picasso, Boy Leading a Horse, 1905-06


rose period-palette changes, symbolic

classical quality-greek forms

no rope to lead horse-connection to horse, sense of unity and connection-sense of connection to something older 

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picasso, family of acrobats with a monkey, 1905
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picasso, family of saltimbanques, 1905
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Picasso, Jester
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picasso, two nudes, 1906
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picasso, gertrude stein, 1906
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picasso, self portrait, 1906
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picasso, self portrait 1907
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picasso,  les demoiselles d’avignon 1907
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picasso, friendship, 1908
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picasso, still life with liquor bottle, 1909
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picasso, ambroise vollard, 1909
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picasso, accordianist, 1911
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picasso, ma jolie, 1911
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picasso, the poet, 1911
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picasso, still life with chair caning 1912
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picasso souvenir of le havre, 1912
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picasso, architects table, 1912
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picasso, glass and bottle of suze, 1912
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picasso, guitar, 1912
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picasso, guitar, 1912
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picasso, glass of absinthe, 1914
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picasso, man with a hat and violin, 1912
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picasso, pipe, glass and bottle of rum, 1914
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picasso, green still life, 1914
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picasso, three musicians, 1921
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picasso, three musicians, 1921 (PHILA)
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picasso, mother and child, 1921

 

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picasso, the lovers, 1923
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picasso, three dancers
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picasso, painter and his model
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braque, the saint martin canal 1906
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braque, viaduct at l'estaque, 1908
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braque, standing nude, 1907
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braque, violin and palette, 1909 *********
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braque, the portuguese, 1911
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braque, man with a guitar, 1911
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braque, violin and pipe, 1913
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braque, café-Bar, 1919
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braque, le gueridon, 1911
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braque, le gueridon, 1929

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gris, the eggs, 1911
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gris, portrait of picasso, 1912
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gris, guitar and flowers, 1912
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gris, pears and grapes on a table, 1913
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gris, guitar, glasses and bottle, 1914
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gris, breakfast, 1914
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gris, still life with checkered table cloth, 1915
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gris, the checkerboard, 1915
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duchamp, nude descending staircase, 1912
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robert delaunay, eiffel tower, 1910
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robert delaunay, the red tower, 1911
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r. delaunay, first disc, 1912
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r. delaunay, homage to bleriot, 1914
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r. delaunay, sun disks
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sonia delaunay, electric prisms, 1914
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sonia delaunay, La Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite 
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russell, synchromy in orange, to form, 1914
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russell, cosmic synchromy