Primitive Culture in Modernist Art

Docs en anglais | 3 pages | 02-12-2005 | Format : | Note : Non noté

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Résumé

Pourquoi et comment la découverte de la culture "primitive" a-t-elle joué un rôle aussi important dans le courant moderniste? Voyage dans des aspects fascinants de l'inspiration de Matisse, Derain, Van Gogh, Picasso et bien d'autres.

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The discovery of ‘primitive' culture by artists is usually said to have occurred in the years 1906-1907. But the word ‘primitivism' was already used then as an art-historical term meaning ‘the imitation of the Primitives', that is, the imitation of styles as different as those of the ancient Egyptians or the Aztecs of Mexico, or those of Persia, India, Cambodia, or even Japan.
With the ‘discovery' of African and Oceanic masks and figure sculptures by Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, and Picasso in the years 1906-1907, a strictly modernist interpretation of the term began: ‘primitive' art simply became increasingly identified, during the following quarter-century, with tribal objects.

More generally though, the modernist artists used so-called primitive art as inspiration to emphasise their commitment to a basic approach. So-called primitive art could thus mean the work of an untrained painter such as Rousseau. Kandinsky also praised the art of children, and sought to paint like a child. Other artists, such as the ‘Fauves' in France, looked to the cultures of Africa and Oceania for inspiration, and incorporated art forms of other cultures into their own paintings.

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