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Cubism

Challenging Renaissance depictions and use of space, the Cubism movement relied on using multiple vantage points and dynamic planes where background and foreground became one. Elements of collage, pop culture, and eventually sculpture were also added into the movement, creating a colorful and diverse canvas. George Condo’s piece, Jester 4, is one of our masterworks on loan currently on display in the Entry Gallery of the Schneider Museum of Art. This piece uses cubist elements, and pushes the style further by playing with shape and shading. Learn more about the Cubism movement with the link below, and see the Jester 4 in person today.

https://www.theartstory.org/movement/cubism/

Beatriz Milhazes

In her interview with the Perez Art Museum of Miami, Beatriz Milhazes says “I think nature always participates in my work as an atmosphere… I like to be surrounded by the nature”.

Milhazes is a Brazilian artist best known for her large-scale, colorful paintings. She expertly uses geometric form and chromatic color palettes to balance out the pure abstraction waiting to jump off the canvas. Learn more about Milhazes’ creative process and inspirations with the link below, and experience her piece Cerimonias Femininas in the Entry Gallery of the Schneider Museum of Art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4dGf1pgHhU

Edward Ruscha

Balancing pop and conceptual art, Edward (Ed) Ruscha is most well known for his work utilizing phrases on top of stoic images. He worked as both a painter and a photographer, capturing 1970’s Hollywood in a dry, unique way. He has used popular literature as a reference for his work, taking lines out of J.G. Ballard’s High Rise in his piece The Music From the Balconies and the fence of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in his piece Tom Sawyer #1. The latter piece is currently on display as part of the Schneider Museum of Art’s Masterworks on Loan program. Learn more about Edward Ruscha and his work with the link below, and see the influence of literature on visual art in the Entry Gallery.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-ruscha-1882/ed-ruscha-and-art-everyday

The Schneider Museum of Art is located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples who lived here since time immemorial. These Tribes were displaced during rapid Euro-American colonization, the Gold Rush, and armed conflict between 1851 and 1856. In the 1850s, discovery of gold and settlement brought thousands of Euro-Americans to their lands, leading to warfare, epidemics, starvation, and villages being burned. In 1853 the first of several treaties were signed, confederating these Tribes and others together – who would then be referred to as the Rogue River Tribe. These treaties ceded most of their homelands to the United States, and in return they were guaranteed a permanent homeland reserved for them. At the end of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, these Tribes and many other Tribes from western Oregon were removed to the Siletz Reservation and the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/) are living descendants of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples of this area. We encourage you to learn about the land you reside on, and to join us in advocating for the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous people.

Cubism

Beatriz Milhazes

Edward Ruscha

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