1905
Showing 32 works across all media from 1905
Woman with a Hat
A critic looked at this and called Matisse and his friends fauves, wild beasts, which is how the movement got its name.
Family of Saltimbanques
Circus people stand together in an empty landscape without looking at each other. The Rose Period at its largest and most wistful.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Calvinists could not know whether they were saved, so they worked without rest and spent nothing. Capitalism grew out of that anxiety, Weber argues, then shed the faith and kept the iron cage.
The House of Mirth
Lily Bart is beautiful, twenty-nine, and unmarried, which in Old New York is a countdown. Wharton tracks her slide from ballroom to boarding house without once softening the arithmetic.
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
Rousseau never left France and built his jungles from botanical gardens and prints. This one hung in the room that named the Fauves.
Boy with a Pipe
A boy from the street in a crown of roses, painted the year Picasso's blue gloom warmed into rose.
Grand Canal Venice
Gondolas on water that has shattered into pink, blue and gold. Signac took the divisionist dot to the most painted view in Europe.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.