PREP NOTES FOR LESSON 15 Prepare chipboard pieces in different lengths to make templates for creating straight edges. Cut the pieces with a straight edge or paper cutter to make straight cuts. Bruce Lesson 15 Patrick Henry Bruce 1881-1936
The friends of Patrick Henry Bruce were making choices about how they would paint objects. Some placed objects in settings that we recognize as rooms or fields. Some painted an object in empty space with no surroundings. Some used no objects at all. With fellow artists turning in every direction, Bruce would have to make his own choices. Patrick Henry Bruce had much to consider as a painter in the first part of the 20 th century. He was an American in Europe and he was aware of Expressionist paintings like Marc’s yellow cow kicking up its hind legs (shown on page forty-two.) We call this a narrative painting because it has objects in a surrounding, which helps us to describe the scene. Some modern art would not be so easy to talk about. Objects were used, but they did not appear in a setting that told where the objects sat. The painting, Lucky Strike , by Stuart Davis is made
of colors, shapes, and letters found on a package design. We
Lucky Strike , 1921.
do not see the whole package, but only recognize small parts of it. This object, if it is still an object, gives us little information. Bruce also encountered the excitement of his friend, Stanton MacDonald- Wright, as he created paintings with no subject at all. Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization, 5) was a symphony of colors. MacDonald-Wright said that just as certain sounds worked well one after another, specific colors looked good when placed side by side. No object was needed. But, Bruce was not ready to give up objects in his paintings. What would he do?
Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization, 5) , 1914-17.
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