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SPIRITUALITY in MODERN ART by Chelsea Ann Rulofson a Thesis
SPIRITUALITY IN MODERN ART By Chelsea Ann Rulofson A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN ART HISTORY University of Wisconsin – Superior May 2012 2 3 Title: Spiritualty in Modern Art Author: Rulofson, Chelsea Ann Advisors: Famule, Olawole and Wright, Pope Abstract: This thesis includes the interpretation of art as a religious device in early history that was essentially, exclusively used within the context of spirituality. Art from around the world reveals the deep roots between spirituality and art. Looking then to modern times, the influence of Darwinian Theory and science on artists at the time divulges a different type of spirituality that does not need any God, gods, spirits, or ancestors for creation or for art. Philosophies of humanism and cosmic humanism begin to take the spiritual stage in art. Art and its relationship with spirituality and with people in most cases no longer serves a communal purpose and has become a tool of the individual’s inner expression, which excludes instead of includes people. The transition has been from artists making art that was for the pleasure of a deity to artists transforming, philosophically, into their own deity and making art to please themselves alone. Through this research into art and spirituality, the relevance of modern art is examined. Description: Thesis (M.A.) - University of Wisconsin, Superior, 2012. (61 leaves). 4 Table of Contents TITLE PAGE………………………………………………………………………………PAGE 1 APPROVAL.………………………………………………………………………………PAGE -
International Scholarly Conference the PEREDVIZHNIKI ASSOCIATION of ART EXHIBITIONS. on the 150TH ANNIVERSARY of the FOUNDATION
International scholarly conference THE PEREDVIZHNIKI ASSOCIATION OF ART EXHIBITIONS. ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION ABSTRACTS 19th May, Wednesday, morning session Tatyana YUDENKOVA State Tretyakov Gallery; Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow Peredvizhniki: Between Creative Freedom and Commercial Benefit The fate of Russian art in the second half of the 19th century was inevitably associated with an outstanding artistic phenomenon that went down in the history of Russian culture under the name of Peredvizhniki movement. As the movement took shape and matured, the Peredvizhniki became undisputed leaders in the development of art. They quickly gained the public’s affection and took an important place in Russia’s cultural life. Russian art is deeply indebted to the Peredvizhniki for discovering new themes and subjects, developing critical genre painting, and for their achievements in psychological portrait painting. The Peredvizhniki changed people’s attitude to Russian national landscape, and made them take a fresh look at the course of Russian history. Their critical insight in contemporary events acquired a completely new quality. Touching on painful and challenging top-of-the agenda issues, they did not forget about eternal values, guessing the existential meaning behind everyday details, and seeing archetypal importance in current-day matters. Their best paintings made up the national art school and in many ways contributed to shaping the national identity. The Peredvizhniki -
CUBISM and ABSTRACTION Background
015_Cubism_Abstraction.doc READINGS: CUBISM AND ABSTRACTION Background: Apollinaire, On Painting Apollinaire, Various Poems Background: Magdalena Dabrowski, "Kandinsky: Compositions" Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art Background: Serial Music Background: Eugen Weber, CUBISM, Movements, Currents, Trends, p. 254. As part of the great campaign to break through to reality and express essentials, Paul Cezanne had developed a technique of painting in almost geometrical terms and concluded that the painter "must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone:" At the same time, the influence of African sculpture on a group of young painters and poets living in Montmartre - Picasso, Braque, Max Jacob, Apollinaire, Derain, and Andre Salmon - suggested the possibilities of simplification or schematization as a means of pointing out essential features at the expense of insignificant ones. Both Cezanne and the Africans indicated the possibility of abstracting certain qualities of the subject, using lines and planes for the purpose of emphasis. But if a subject could be analyzed into a series of significant features, it became possible (and this was the great discovery of Cubist painters) to leave the laws of perspective behind and rearrange these features in order to gain a fuller, more thorough, view of the subject. The painter could view the subject from all sides and attempt to present its various aspects all at the same time, just as they existed-simultaneously. We have here an attempt to capture yet another aspect of reality by fusing time and space in their representation as they are fused in life, but since the medium is still flat the Cubists introduced what they called a new dimension-movement. -
Detki V Kletke: the Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry
Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Morse, Ainsley. 2016. Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493521 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children’s Literature and Unofficial Poetry A dissertation presented by Ainsley Elizabeth Morse to The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Slavic Languages and Literatures Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts April 2016 © 2016 – Ainsley Elizabeth Morse. All rights reserved. Dissertation Advisor: Professor Stephanie Sandler Ainsley Elizabeth Morse Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children’s Literature and Unofficial Poetry Abstract Since its inception in 1918, Soviet children’s literature was acclaimed as innovative and exciting, often in contrast to other official Soviet literary production. Indeed, avant-garde artists worked in this genre for the entire Soviet period, although they had fallen out of official favor by the 1930s. This dissertation explores the relationship between the childlike aesthetic as expressed in Soviet children’s literature, the early Russian avant-garde and later post-war unofficial poetry. -
Williams College History 140T Fall, 2016 Mr. Wagner
Williams College History 140T Fall, 2016 Mr. Wagner Fin-de-Siècle Russia: Cultural Splendor, Imperial Decay Imperial Russia on the eve of the First World War presents a complex picture of political conflict, social and economic change, and cultural ferment and innovation. Newly emergent political parties sought to enlist mass support to transform or overthrow the tsarist regime, which in turn endeavored to preserve itself through a combination of repression, reform, and the refashioning of its image. Rapid urbanization and industrialization, and the spread of education and literacy, gave rise to social conflict and dislocation, demands for social reform, and the redefinition of individual identities and beliefs. These political, social, cultural, and economic developments provided a fertile context for the burst of literary creativity and the emergence of modernist literary and artistic movements that occurred in fin-de-siècle imperial Russia. This course is intended, in the first instance, to explore the interrelationship between these literary and artistic trends on the one hand and the political, social, and cultural conflict and change occurring in late imperial Russia on the other. With this objective, we will examine a series of literary works and artistic and architectural movements–for example, Chekhov’s play “The Cherry Orchard” and his story “The Culprit,” Gorky’s My Childhood, Bely’s Petersburg, Russian revivalism, modernism, symbolism, etc.–within their historical context, seeking to understand both how the particular context shaped these works and movements and how the latter can help us understand the times in which they emerged or were produced. Through such an examination the course hopes to provide an understanding of both the pressures in late Imperial Russia that contributed to the Revolutions of 1917 and the reasons why this proved to be such a culturally creative period. -
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Picasso and Cubism
Module: Art Theory and History for Senior Students Course Code: AVI 4M Artists like Henri Matisse and a group known as the Fauves pushed the use of brilliant colour and impasto texture further than van Gogh had dared and Pablo Picasso took Cezanne's experiments with perspective to the next level. The early twentieth century was a turbulent time of industrialization and violent political upheaval and PICASSO AND CUBISM the art of this era was suitably adventurous. We will Post Impressionists like van Gogh and Cezanne begin our look at this time with the development of set the stage for a new generation of artists to push cubism through the work of Pablo Picasso. the boundaries of art even further. Young artists were inspired by the bold approach of these artists but wanted to go even further in the use of expressive colour, and in the flattening of the pictorial space of painting. Man Ray (1890-1976) © ARS, NY Pablo Picasso. 1933. Gelatin silver print. 35.2 x 27.9 cm (13 7/8 x 11 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987 (1987.1100.18). Copy Photograph © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Location :The Metropolitan Three Musicians. 1921. 6’7””x7”33/4”. oil on canvas. Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Photo Credit : The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picasso was the child prodigy son of Jose Picasso first visited Paris in 1900, and alter- Ruiz Blasco, a drawing master of Malaga Spain, nated between Paris and Barcelona from 1900-1904. -
Abstract Vladimir Makovsky
ABSTRACT VLADIMIR MAKOVSKY: THE POLITICS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN REALISM Tessa J. Crist, M.A. School of Art and Design Northern Illinois University, 2015 Barbara Jaffee, Director This thesis examines the political work produced by a little-known Russian Realist, Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920), while he was a member of the nineteenth-century art collective Peredvizhniki. Increasingly recognized for subtle yet insistent opposition to the tsarist regime and the depiction of class distinctions, the work of the Peredvizhniki was for decades ignored by modernist art history as the result of an influential article, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” written by American art critic Clement Greenberg in 1939. In this article, Greenberg suggests the work of Ilya Repin, the most renowned member of the Peredvizhniki, should be regarded not as art, but as “kitsch”--the industrialized mass culture of an urban working class. Even now, scholars who study the Peredvizhniki concern themselves with the social history of the group as a whole, rather than with the merits of specific artworks. Taking a different approach to analyzing the significance of the Peredvizhniki and of Makovsky specifically this thesis harnesses the powerful methodologies devised in the 1970s by art historians T.J. Clark and Michael Fried, two scholars who are largely responsible for reopening the dialogue on the meaning and significance of Realism in the history of modern art. NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY DE KALB, ILLINOIS MAY 2015 VLADIMIR MAKOVSKY: THE POLITICS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIAN REALISM BY TESSA J. CRIST ©2015 Tessa J. Crist A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE MASTERS OF ARTS SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN Thesis Director: Barbara Jaffee TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................... -
Les Ambulants
Les Ambulants Chichkine Après avoir passé son enfance dans l'Oural, il étudie à l'École de peinture, sculpture et architecture de Moscou pendant quatre années, puis à l'Académie impériale des beaux-arts de Saint-Pétersbourg de 1856 à 1860, dont il sort avec les plus grands honneurs et une médaille d'or. Cinq ans plus tard, Chichkine devint lui-même membre de cette Académie, puis professeur. Il était par ailleurs professeur à l'École supérieure des arts, spécialisé dans les paysages. C'est d'ailleurs pour ses œuvres de paysages frappant de réalisme et pour sa technique irréprochable qu'il est le plus connu et à son retour à Saint-Pétersbourg, il devint membre du mouvement des Ambulants et fonde en 1871 la Société des aquarellistes russes. Il prit aussi part à de nombreuses expositions en Russie et à l'étranger. La technique de peinture de Chichkine est fondée sur une étude analytique de la nature et il faisait des recherches approfondies sur tous ses sujets. Il est célèbre pour ses paysages, mais c'est aussi un excellent dessinateur et graveur. Il est mort le 8 mars 1898 Repin Ilia Repine, né à Tchougouïv, près de Kharkiv aujourd'hui en Ukraine, le 24 juillet 1844 et mort le 29 septembre 1930 à Kuokkala (Finlande), est un peintre russe. Fils de soldat cosaque, il travaille dans sa jeunesse comme peintre d'icônes, étudie le dessin avec Ivan Kramskoï, et poursuit sa formation à l'Académie impériale des beaux-arts. Il est membre, à partir de 1878, des ambulants, et est ensuite nommé académicien de l'Académie impériale des beaux-arts. -
Yekaterina Degot Terrorist Naturalism: Art in an Illegitimate Zone
Yekaterina Degot Terrorist Naturalism: Art in an Illegitimate Zone [4.104 words, 1995-1996] Russia Yekaterina Degot Terrorist Naturalism: Art in an Illegitimate Zone This text was archived at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb collection, as part of the Research project conceived in 1997 by a SCCAN – Soros Centers for Contemporary Art Network, funded by the Open Society Foundation, New York. The purpose of the project was to select, collect and disseminate texts on contemporary art practices in the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, around Soros Centers for Contemporary Art, written in and about art of the 1990s. The coordination of the project was carried out by Janka Vukmir, SCCA – Zagreb, today the Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb. We did not intervene in any of texts more than just correcting obvious typos and spelling. On the occasion of collecting texts, we were given permission from all authors, to rightfully use them. If anyone now has different instructions, please, contact us at the [email protected]. All of the texts we have collected at the time have been later published on the website of the I_CAN, International Contemporary Art Network, the short-lived successor of the SCCAN. On the occasion of the exhibition 90s: Scars, revisiting the art practices and social and political context of the 1990s in the postcommunist countries, the Institute for Contemporary Art is now reoffering a collection of 89 texts and a comprehensive list of then proposed further readings, on the website of the Institute for Contemporary Art, www.institute.hr. The exhibition 90s: Scars is curated by Janka Vukmir and organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art and the MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, on the occasion of the European Cultural Capital Rijeka 2020. -
Transition in Post-Soviet Art
Transition in Post-Soviet Art: “Collective Actions” Before and After 1989 by Octavian Eșanu Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Kristine Stiles, Supervisor ___________________________ Fredric Jameson ___________________________ Patricia Leighten ___________________________ Pamela Kachurin ___________________________ Valerie Hillings Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University 2009 ABSTRACT Transition in Post-Soviet Art: “Collective Actions” Before and After 1989 by Octavian Eșanu Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Kristine Stiles, Supervisor ___________________________ Fredric Jameson ___________________________ Patricia Leighten ___________________________ Pamela Kachurin ___________________________ Valerie Hillings An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophy in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University 2009 Copyright by Octavian Eșanu 2009 ABSTRACT For more than three decades the Moscow-based conceptual artist group “Collective Actions” has been organizing actions. Each action, typically taking place at the outskirts of Moscow, is regarded as a trigger for a series of intellectual -
1 Life Between Two Panels Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
Life Between Two Panels Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Clinton J. Buhler, M.A. Graduate Program in History of Art * * * * * The Ohio State University 2013 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Myroslava M. Mudrak, Advisor Dr. Kris Paulsen Dr. Jessie Labov Dr. Aron Vinegar 1 Copyright by Clinton J. Buhler 2013 2 Abstract Beneath the façade of total conformity in the Soviet Union, a dynamic underground community of artists and intellectuals worked in forced isolation. Rejecting the mandates of state-sanctioned Socialist Realist art, these dissident artists pursued diverse creative directions in their private practice. When they attempted to display their work publicly in 1974, the carefully crafted façade of Soviet society cracked, and the West became aware of a politically subversive undercurrent in Soviet cultural life. Responding to the international condemnation of the censorship, Soviet officials allowed and encouraged the emigration of the nonconformist artists to the West. This dissertation analyzes the foundation and growth of the nonconformist artistic movement in the Soviet Union, focusing on a key group of artists who reached artistic maturity in the Brezhnev era and began forging connections in the West. The first two chapters of the dissertation center on works that were, by and large, produced before emigration to the West. In particular, I explore the growing awareness of artists like Oleg Vassiliev of their native artistic heritage, especially the work of Russian avant-garde artists like Kazimir Malevich. I look at how Vassiliev, in a search for an alternative form of expression to the mandated form of art, took up the legacy of nineteenth-century Realism, avant-garde abstraction, and Socialist Realism. -
Ronald Seldman Gallery
ronald ſeldman gallery KOMAR & MELAMID Vitaly Komar: Born, Moscow, September 11, 1943 Alexander Melamid: Born, Moscow, July 14, 1945 Moscow Art School, 1958-60 Stroganov Institute of Art & Design, Moscow 1962-67 SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS 2016 Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, United Kingdom, Yalta 1945, September 16, 2016 – January 29, 2017. (previously exhibited: Brooklyn Museum, March 16 – June 4, 1990, and Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany, June 12 – September 8, 1987) 2003 Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan, Komar & Melamid: Desperately Seeking a Masterpiece, October 4 – December 14. 2002 Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, Symbols of the Big Bang, Curated by Reba Wulkan, October 24, 2002 – February 2, 2003, and travel to: The Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, PA, November 21, 2003 – January 14, 2004. (catalogue) Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Komar and Melamid’s Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project, April 10 – July 14. 2001 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, American Dreams, Curated by Ammy Schlegel, January 16-March 11. (catalogue) 1999 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, Animal Kingdom, Elephant paintings and Mikki- chimpanzee’sphotographs, Curated by Joseph Bakstein. 1998 The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, The People’s Choice, September 5-November 15, and travel to:llingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Alberta, Canada, January 7-February 6, 1999; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NE, February 25-April 25, 1999; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, May 1-June 27, 1999; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, July 10-August 22, 1999; University of Missouri-Kansas City Art Gallery, Kansas City, MS, September 3-October 29, 1999; Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, September 8-November 3, 2000.