1906 · Skopia

Showing 29 works across all media from 1906

Genre painting · Fauvism

The Joy of Life

Henri Matisse

1906 · The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Philadelphia

Nudes lounge and pipe and dance in a ring in a glade of colors nothing in nature has, a Fauve idyll from 1906.

★ 8.3

Genre painting · Post-Impressionism

The Bathers

Paul Cezanne

1906 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Cézanne worked on it for years and died before he finished, bending the trees inward so they rhyme with the bodies underneath.

★ 8.2

Portrait · Fauvism

Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe)

Henri Matisse

1906 · Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Matisse ran a green stripe down his wife's face to divide warm from cool, and used color to do the work of light.

★ 7.4

Fiction · Adventure

White Fang (includes Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire)

Jack London

1906 · 271 pages

Born wild in the Canadian North, a wolf-dog passes from a Native camp to a dogfighting pit to a man who tames him. The Call of the Wild runs the other way.

★ 7.0

Genre painting · Rose Period

Boy Leading a Horse

Pablo Picasso

1906 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The Rose Period cooling off into something graver and more archaic, the boy and horse built like figures off a Greek relief.

★ 6.7

Fiction · Political fiction

Jurgis Rudkus comes from Lithuania to work Chicago's killing floors, and the packing plants destroy his family while diseased meat ships out. Roosevelt read it and Congress passed federal food inspection within months.

★ 6.7

Nonfiction · Essays

The Book of Tea

Okakura Kakuzo

1906 · 104 pages

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage, writes Okakura, a Japanese art curator addressing the West, who then draws from one cup an entire aesthetic of imperfection and attention.

★ 6.5

Philosophical speech

I firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things.

William James

Pragmatism · 1906

★ 6.0

Sociology

The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways · 1906

★ 5.0

Sociology