Painting c.1921-22 by Bruce
Patrick Henry Bruce paints a table setting, just as the old masters had so often, but he did not copy the objects as he saw them. He invented the colors and changed the forms. He painted like the Purists, who did not want any decoration or pretty
patterns on their objects. Every object, they thought, had a quality about it, which usually meant that they painted its closest geometrical form like a cylinder, rectangular cube, or a wedge. Bruce, like the Purists, used solid or flat colors. These colors show no changes within the shape. His paintings show us many ways in which the ideas of modernism were expressed. Your answers to the questions below will tell the story of what it means to be a work of modern art. Can you find a form in Bruce’s painting that looks like a wedge of cheese, a cylindrical glass, and a rectangular cube shaped book?
Are the colors in this painting bright or dull?
Do the items in this painting show detailed decoration or do they show the simple forms? Do you think the colors are true to the look of each object or are they colors that the artist invented?
Modern art can usually be described as bright , using simple forms , and artist invented .
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