Chadwick
Chapter 9
“Russian art in the years before the Revolution of 1917 developed along two broad paths. While some artists worked primarily in two dimensions, others emphasized construction, texture, and design. Neoprimitivism, Cubofuturism, Rayonism, Suprematism, and Constructivism coexisted and artists looked to both Paris and Moscow for support.”
I like how this quote talks about Russian art before the revolution of 1917. I think it’s important to realize how much the revolution has impacted Russian art. How it changed art through its events.
“The evolution of Delaunay’s fashion and textile designs, which by 1923 were being commercially produced, reflects both the French textile industry’s attempt to recover quickly from the slump caused by the War by identifying their designs with contemporary avant-garde art, and new ways of thinking about the body and display.”
I chose this quote because I really respect the way she uses both the fashion and textile industry with her designs. Not just that, but also this was just after the war, which the French were trying to recover from. Using the textile industry shows that.
Chapter 10
“The imagery of intellectually and physically powerful femininity and that of the lesbian New Woman of the early twentieth century intersect in Brooks paintings which rely on the imagery of cross-dressing.”
Romaine Brooks art highlights the individuality of women, defying social norms by “cross-dressing”. She paints women looking intelligent, strong & free. She uses art as self expression, and expresses self expression.
“Her nude self-portraits may be the first such paintings in oil by a woman artist, but as such, they reveal all the contradictions inherent in the woman artist’s attempt to insert her own image into existing artistic conventions.”
The reason I choose this quote is because it seems that Gauguin is a pioneer of women painting nudes of themselves. Doing something that I’d assume women weren’t allowed to do. Which was to represent themselves in this way.
Chapter 11
“The elegant intimacy of Krasner’s “Little Images” may be linked to her fascination with Irish and Persian illuminated manuscripts, or with the Hebrew inscriptions familiar from her childhood.”
This quote talks about Krasner’s influences, and how they were shaped. By her childhood and cultural memory of these things. It also reveals how Krasner’s work challenges “mainstream” narrative, by using such homage that isn’t usually seen by the “mainstream” before.
"Hesse and Bourgeois used materials that had hardly ever been used before in sculpture to form objects that were powerfully tactile and suggestive, yet relied on an abstract formal language."
This is an important quote because it captures how women sculptors, through new materials and new relationships between the body, abstraction, and emotion-challenged the male dominated artistic norms of what sculpture could be.
Guerrilla Girls
“Sonia Terk Delaunay (1885-1974) had her first painting show in 1908 and didn't have another until 1953. Why? Because her husband Robert Delaunay entered and hogged the picture”
I picked this quote because it shows how men were taking credit and overshadowing the women in the art scene. Not because they played any role, but just because they were the husband of the wife. The man, that's all.
“You have lost your identity because you happened to be the wife of Jackson Pollock?”
Another quote about how women are overshadowed by men, but this quote shows how women are forgotten or how the quote says they’ve “lost their identity”.
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| Sonia Delaunay, appliquéd coat, 1920s |
Sonia Delaunay's design is a coat with multiple different panels. Which are cut into different shapes. featuring saturated reds, blues, blacks, oranges, and whites.
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