東京理科大学 B英1: Realism & Cubism・写実主義とキュービズム

Hello!

How are you? Today I will show you here two very different paintings. 

The one at the top is by the 19th-century French artist Gustave Courbet. The painting below it is by Henri Le Fauconnier, an early 20th-century painter also from France. 

Courbet's painting is an example of a style called realism (写実主義). It tried to show life the way it was lived by everyday people, almost in a documentary style. But Fauconnier's painting is very different - it is an example of a style called cubism (キュービズム). It tried to show people, objects, and nature from different angles and directions all at once - for example, showing a 3-D object like a table at every possible angle on a flat, 2-D surface.  

The most famous Realist artist was Gustave Courbet, while the most famous Cubist artist was Pablo Picasso. 

Activity/pre-class preparation (for next class)

Let's look at these paintings. Which ones do you like? What kind of feeling do you get from each one? Talk about these with your classmates!

(Is it possible that cubism is realistic, in the way it tries to show people and things as they are in physical space and time? Maybe we can't see things in every way at one time, but we experience them in 3-D space and time. This is just an idea!)

Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) (Edouard Manet)

La sonate (The Sonata) (Marcel Duchamp)

Young Girl Reading (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)

La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) (Albert Gleizes)

Have fun with these! 

Here is one more for you - one of Pablo Picasso's most famous works - Three Musicians:

See you next time! 

Images: Top - The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=149656/L’Abondance (Abundance) by Henri Le Fauconnier - PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41618843/Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) by Edouard Manet - By Unknown - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=154408/La sonate (The Sonata) by Marcel Duchamp - PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39690832/Young Girl Reading by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - National Gallery of Art, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11497975/La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) by Albert Gleizes - http://armory.nyhistory.org/woman-with-phlox/PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40048817/Bottom - Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso - By MoMA, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4072766

東京理科大学 A英1: Ukiyoe・浮世絵

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at ukiyoe (浮世絵)! The picture at the top is a classic one by  Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the most famous ukiyo-e artists, called Three Beauties of the Present Day (寛政三美人). 

Do you think ukiyoe still has any impact on Japanese culture today? Perhaps in manga or anime? It might not seem that way - but ukiyoe did have a big impact on Western art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Activity/preparation

Look at the pictures below. What do you think of them? Do you think that manga and anime were influenced (影響した) by ukiyoe? What do you think of the impact that it had on Western art that you see below? Take some notes about your impressions of these pictures.

Bamboo Yards, Old Kyoubashi Bridge (Utagawa Hiroshige) 

Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge (James McNeill Whistler) 

Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Utagawa Hiroshige) 

Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) (Vincent van Gogh)

Have fun with these! (But before you go, here's one more picture to enjoy!)

Shiba Zoujouji (Kawase Hasui) 

See you next time! 

Images: Top - Three Beauties of the Present Day - By Utamaro - cgH3Mn22MIBngA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21880055/Bamboo Yards, Old Kyobashi Bridge - By Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) - Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3790943/By ジェームズ・マクニール・ホイッスラー - Livre Peinture de paysage, de Norbert Wolf, Taschen, 2008. ISBN 9783822854655, パブリック・ドメイン, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8616218/Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake - By Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) - Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=226069/Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) - By Vincent van Gogh - rwGc5ZWvzXZ0vA at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13523165/Bottom - Shiba Zojoji - By Kawase Hasui, scanned by W.Schmidt - Collection Walter Schmidt, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23985180

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Welcome back! お帰りなさい！

Hello! 

How are you? Welcome back to the class for the second semester!  

As you can see, I am feeding a lovely little kangaroo - in Australia! I went there from September 6th-16th to see my brother, who lives in Perth on the west coast, and my cousin, who lives in a small town southeast of Perth, along the coast. I had a great time and many experiences. I grew up in Perth, so there were some memories for me. 

But I saw many things like this, off the southeast coast, that I hadn't seen before: 

If you look a little to the left of the picture, directly ahead, far in the distance, you will go to Antarctica! This is not so far from where my cousin lives!

As for Perth, it's the largest city in the west of Australia:

Here are a few shots of the Hay Street Mall, one of the most famous locations in Perth. It's like a Ginza for Perth, with shops, cafes, and restaurants: 

This was the entrance to the Piccadilly Theater, a movie theater I went to sometimes when I was a child. It doesn't show movies anymore, but it is such a famous building that the Perth city government  kept the front and outside of the theater and made it a shopping arcade! There are many old buildings that have been kept well along the Hay Street Mall, like this one:

 Plus this one as well:

Here is a shot of the Perth skyline - not a very good one, but the best I could get! It was unfortunately a cloudy day when I could get this picture.

There are many more things I could show you, but this post could get very long, and I don't want to be boring to all of you! So how about your summer? Let's talk and write about what we did, and anything that we learned, over the summer. (I learned some things I didn't know over this summer. How about you?)

It's great to be back and I'm glad to see all of you. Take care! 

See you next class! 

Images: Top and all except map - personal photographs. All rights reserved. 

Map - screenshot of image by NordNordWest - own work, usingUnited States National Imagery and Mapping Agency dataWorld Data Base II data, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4811950