Max Weber (1881-1961) Chinese Restaurant, 1915 by Weber
Lesson 12
Max Weber was an American cubist painter. He came to America from Russia at the age of ten. In his twenties he went to Europe and discovered modern ideas in art as he met Mattise, Picasso, and Rousseau. He returned to New York and introduced cubism to America. Cubist painters look at the things in our world and show only parts of those things in their art. Chinese Restaurant is Weber’s most famous painting. In it we see bits of tile floor, part of an awning, a piece of a red wall, and parts of what might be people, curtains, and steps.
Can you find a checker board pattern in two areas of the painting? Can you find a pattern that might represent tile that one sees on a wall or floor? Where are straight lines sitting side by side? Where are zigzag lines repeated?
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