OVERVIEW Modern Art was created as the answer to the challenge to produce art that realistically depicts the various social factors at the turn of the century. It is characterized by the expressive use of color, non-traditional materials and new techniques and mediums.
ACTIVITY NAME IT! CLAIM IT!
SO THEREFORE, WHAT IS IMPRESS AND EXPRESS? As verbs the difference between impress and express is that impress is to affect (someone) strongly and often favourably while express is ( senseid ) to convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPRESSIONISM STYLE IN PAINTING : 1. It uses short brisk strokes of bright colors to create impressionisms of light on the object that is painted. 2. reflects of the experience upon the consciousness of the artist and the audience. 3. It also a theory and school of art that produces vividness, nature immediacy and the impression made on the artist.
OSCAR CLAUDE MONET (1840- 1926) He was one of the French Founders of the Impressionist Movement. He rejected the traditional approach to landscape painting. Instead of copying, his style in painting used variations of color and light caused by seasonal changes. He became one of the foremost painters of landscape in the history of art.
SUNRISE
LANDSCAPE AT VETHEUIL
CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPRESSIONISM STYLE IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURING: 1. natural forms and colors are distorted and exaggerated. 2. it used by heavy black lines that define form, vivid colors and subjective use of thematic materials. 3. the artists use distortions od color and form which gives visual form to emotions and inner sensations.
EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1986) FATHER OF EXPRESSIONISM A Norwegian painter who is pioneered the expressionism Movement in modern painting. He developed a bolder and more simplified style in painting. Much was the original of lithography, etching and woodcut.
“THE SCREAM” is one of the world’s most recognizable works of art. It depicts a man in a private moment of anguished despair and anxiety, while the other people in the painting seem blissfully unaware of his situation
ANXIETY
STARRY NIGHT
THE DANCE OF LIFE
BATHING MEN
THE HANDS
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY. ON YOUR OWN PERCEPTION, GIVE YOUR OWN TITLE BASED ON THE CORRESPONDING PAINTINGS ON IMPRESSION AND EXPRESSION PAINTINGS.
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What do you call to this style in painting that is characterized by short brisk strokes of bright colors? (50 points)
He became one of the foremost painters of landscape in the history of art. (50 points)
What do you call to this style of painting that is in natural forms and colors are distorted and exaggerated. (60 points)
It reflects the experience upon the consciousness of the artist and the audience. (50 points)
Father of Expressionism. (70 points)
One of the world’s most recognizable works of art in Expressionism. (100 points)
CUBISM It is characterized by formal structure of work of art and the reduction of natural geometrical figures. It was the first abstract style of modern art. In a cubist artwork, the objects are first reduced into cubes, flattened into two- dimensional shapes and arranged in overlapping planes.
PABLO RUIZ PICASSO One of the greatest artists in Cubism.
He gave a sense of vigor to his works and his own distinct style by creating pieces that are ahead of his time.
He first artist to take step towards modern art and developed the genre in which cut paper fragments were pasted into his composition.
DADAISM A revolt by painters and writers in France, Germany and Switzerland during the 20 th century against the prevailing standards in art. Artists used unorthodoxed materials and chance-based procedures that give their works spontaneity and irreverence.
MARCEL DUCHAMP Pioneer of the Dada Movement
He also developed artwork called “ Readymades ” through the use of commercially available objects.
He argued that “any ordinary object could be elevated to the dignity of work of art by the mere choice of an artist”
SURREALISM Style of art that evolved from Dadaism and developed in the 20 th century. It uses impossible landscapes, optical illusions and stresses the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery
SALVADOR DALI One of the most famous Spanish-Catalan surrealist painters and an icon of the Surrealist movement.
His paintings probed the unconscious world of thoughts, dreams and perception in fanciful and nightmarish images
Dali’s art has been called the EPITOME OF SURREALISM.
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
ABSTRACT REALISM Aims to replicate nature and art that does not have a definable focus and attempts to depict the emotions behind a particular real-life object.
JACKSON POLLOCK He was a well-known figure in the abstract expressionist movement.
He use a “dripping style” marked the used of sticks, trowels, or knives to drip and splatter paints, as well as pouring directly from the can.
POP ART Form of art that captures everyday occurrences through the use of style applied in mass media and advertising.
ANDY WARHOL American visual artist of the 1960’s Pop Art Movement. Successful magazine and ad illustrator.
OP ART Form of abstract art that gives an illusion of movement by the precise use of pattern and color.
VICTOR VASARELY Hungarian- French artist widely accepted as the “grandfather” and leader of the Op Art movement. He developed his style of geometric abstract art working on various materials while utilizing a minimal number of forms and colors.
PERFORMANCE ART Kind of art that combines visual art with dramatic performance by the artist.
MARINA ABRAMOVICS She is considered as the Grandmother of Performance Art.
HAPPENING ART Form of art that combines the elements of music, dance and theater on stage or live action. In this type of art, the viewers never know where or when a happening may occur.
ALLAN KAPROW
Allan Kaprow , Calling, (1965) • Person wrapped in foil dropped in grand
MOB ART Revitalized art form revitalized and a slightly more choreographed version of Allan Kaprow and John Cage’s “Happenings” of the 1950s and 1960s.