ep90: The road to modernism

Randall talks to Chris about the transition to modernism in painting.

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slideshow download:

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Timeline:

1863 -- Salon des Refusés

1874 -- Impression, Sunrise by Monet

1875 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler paints Nocturne in Black and Gold -- The Falling Rocket

1877 -- John Ruskin published his attack on the paintings of James McNeill Whistler exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery

1878 -- Whistler v Ruskin trial (https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24650)

1881 -- Paul Gauguin moves to Tahiti. His avowed intent was to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional"

1884 -- Georges Seurat founds theory of chromoluminarism, divisionism

1886 -- Symbolism coined

1888 -- Cloisonnism coined

1889 -- Synthetism coined

1890 -- Whistler publishes The Gentle Art of Making Enemies with full transcript of case

1903 -- Gauguin dies

1903 - 1906 -- Gauguin retrospectives in Paris

1903 -- Kandinsky paints the Blue Rider

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Topics discussed include:

"alternative" art

alternative music

Camille Pisarro

Impressionism

Eugène Delacroix

Islamic art

Zen art

Alexander Cozens inkblots

traditional African art

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Positivism

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recorded March 7, 2022

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