A stílus dekonstrukciója: Picasso, Le Nain, a klasszikus hagyomány és a képalkotás modernizácója

This study examines the question of modernity in the context of art history. It attempts to grasp the so-called modern art as the modernization of traditional artistic practices and social commissions, that is, as a process of institutional separation and autonomization of art, as well as the gradual professionalization and increasing self-reflection of artistic knowledge (or knowledge about art). This demand is embodied in the museum practice of modern painters, and in their intensive study of the Old Masters. As a case study, I analyze Picasso’s 1917 painting Return from the Baptism, based on Le Nain, in which the modern painter attempts to deconstruct the 17th-century genre style in terms of format, size, use of color, brushwork, and conception of the picture plane, doing the exact opposite of Le Nain. In doing so, he also diverts the borrowed tools of pointillism from their original style-creating function. As a late modern master, Picasso surveys the reservoir of historical tools available to the painter: modernization, museum, art appreciation, Picasso, Le Nain, pointillism, picture plane, color/paint, texture.

Keywords: Modernization, museum, art appreciation, Picasso, Le Nain, pointillism,
picture plane, color/paint, texture