Visions of the Human by Slevin Tom;

Author:Slevin, Tom;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2015-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

Schlemmer’s Bodies

Schlemmer’s impulse for the modernity of Van Gogh, Cézanne and cubism existed within a demand for stability. Cubism’s potential for composition excited Schlemmer, but the eternal laws of classical order impressed itself with urgency. In an early work, Schlemmer represented what would come to preoccupy his entire career: man. In Komposition auf Rosa (1915–6) (Fig. 25) von Maur notes that he ‘boldly introduced a system of schematised figuration that was paradigmatic for his future work’.87 The influences of both Cubism and Classicism are immediately clear in the abstraction of the human figure into reconfigured elements. The figure in the top left is perhaps the most affected by Cubism: it is rotated, to articulate its totality, as well as its duration in time, through the revelation of planes unavailable in perspectival representation. Schlemmer does not reconfigure these parts into a new, holistic form, but rather – and this is his distinctive appropriation of cubist technique – extracts fundamental characteristics from the thing in order to describe its fundamental construction.

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