Modern Arts

A reporting about the modern arts, the history of it and its timeline...For educational purposes only. see reference at the end of the slides.

1. Modern Arts 20 th Century Arts

2. Modern Art R efers to works produced during the approximate period 1860- 1970. (19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. ) T hrowing out of the OLD , embracing of the NEW . There is more of EXPERIMENTATION in new ways of seeing ideas about how art functions. Modern art was about the people, places and ideas that the artist had DIRECT CONTACT WITH . Modern Art also witnessed the emergence of NEW MEDIA , like photography.

3. When did Modern Art Begin? Édouard Manet showed his painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass) in the Salon des Refusés in Paris.

4. The World during 1860- 1970 1869 -  Transcontinental Rail Service Begun in the United States. 1871- Photographer  W.H. Jackson  takes a number of photographs on the Yellowstone Expedition.  1872 – Yellowstone National Park was established as the first National Park in the United States . 1876- Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call, saying, " Watson, come here, I need you .“ 1883-   The Brooklyn Bridge was opened with an enormous celebration. 1896- The first modern Olympic games, the idea of Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens, Greece.

5. The World during 20’th Century 1900- Sigmund Freud Publishes  The Interpretation of Dreams. 1912- the titanic sinks. 1914- World War 1 starts 1918- World War 1 end 1928- First Mickey Mouse Cartoon 1938 - Superman First Appears in Comic Books 1939- world war II starts 1940- Cartoon Character Bugs Bunny Debuts in “A Wild Hare” 1945 – Hitler commits suicide. World War II ends 1955- James Dean dies in car accident. 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech 1964- Beatles Become Popular in U.S . 1969- Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

6. Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of artists. The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch

7. The first modern art movement Impressionist artists moved from the studio to the streets and countryside, painting en plein air. Representational art that did not necessarily rely on realistic depictions. loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors. They abandoned traditional linear perspective and avoided the clarity of form. records the effects of the massive mid-nineteenth-century renovation of Paris. Impressionism

8. Impression, Sunrise (1873),by Claude Monet

9. Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877) by  Gustave Caillebotte

10. Symbolism was both an artistic and a literary movement that suggested ideas through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes, and colors. Symbolism was both an artistic and a literary movement that suggested ideas through symbols and emphasized the meaning behind the forms, lines, shapes, and colors. to express psychological truth and the idea that behind the physical world lay a spiritual reality. Symbolists combined religious mysticism, the perverse, the erotic, and the decadent. Symbolist subject matter is typically characterized by an interest in the occult, the morbid, the dream world, melancholy, evil, and death. Symbolism

11. Death and Masks by James Ensor

12. Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer on a deeper level. Rather than merely represent their surroundings, they relied upon the interrelations of color and shape to describe the world around them. focused on abstract form and pattern in the application of paint to the surface of the canvas. Post- Impressionism

13. movement that swept through the decorative arts and architecture Aimed at modernizing design, seeking to escape the eclectic historical styles that had previously been popular. Artists drew inspiration from both organic and geometric forms, evolving elegant designs that united flowing, natural forms with more angular contours. The desire to abandon the historical styles of the 19th century was an important impetus Art Nouveau

14. The Fauves ("wild beasts") were a loosely allied group of French painters with shared interests. radical goal of separating color from its descriptive, representational purpose and allowing it to exist on the canvas as an independent element. The artist's direct experience of his subjects, his emotional response to nature, and his intuition were all more important than academic theory or elevated subject matter. Color could project a mood and establish a structure within the work of art without having to be true to the natural world. FAUVISM

15. The Dance (1909-1910) by Henri Matisse

16. Henri M atisse The Red Room (1908-1909) by Henri Matisse is an example of the artist’s Fauvist style, which was expressive and emotional. The process Matisse used to create this painting involved constantly checking his own reactions to the piece unfolding before him as he worked and continuing in this manner until the painting “felt” finished.

17. Emerged in Germany in response to the widespread anxiety. Art was now meant to come forth from within the artist employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects. meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world. With the turn of the century in Europe, shifts in artistic styles and vision erupted as a response to the major changes in the atmosphere of society. Expressionism

18. The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch Most Important Expressionist Art Throughout his artistic career, Munch focused on scenes of death, agony, and anxiety in distorted and emotionally charged portraits, all themes and styles that would be adopted by the Expressionists.

19. Berlin Street Scene (1913) by Ernest Ludwig Kirchner

20. Cubism was one of the first truly modern movements to emerge in art. Analytic Cubism , in which forms seem to be 'analyzed' and fragmented Synthetic Cubism , foreign materials are collaged to the surface of the canvas as 'synthetic' signs for depicted objects. It abandoned perspective , which artists had used to order space turned away from the realistic modeling of figures Cubism

21. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon , Pablo Picasso (1907)

22. Guitare et Verre by Gorges Braque

23. Dada was born in 1915, more or less simultaneously in Switzerland and the United States (specifically in Zurich and New York)—two countries that were at this time neutral during the war. The movement reflected disgust at the horrors of the war and disillusionment with the values of the society from which it had emerged. Dada artists tried to shock people from complacency, and many of them abandoned conventional materials and techniques Dada’s aesthetics, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities Dada

24. Celebes by Max ernst (1921)

25. Portrait du Marquis de Sade by Marcel Duchamp (1938)

26. Constructivists proposed to replace art's traditional concern with composition with a focus on construction. Objects were to be created not in order to express beauty, or the artist's outlook, or to represent the world, but to carry out a fundamental analysis of the materials and forms of art, one which might lead to the design of functional objects. Constructivist art often aimed to demonstrate how materials behaved concerns with form and abstraction often seem tinged with mysticism, Constructivism firmly embraced the new social and cultural developments that grew out of World War I Constructivism

27. Column(1923) by Naum Gabo Monument to the Third International (1920), by Vladimir Tatlin

28. artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. powerfully influenced by Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists believed the conscious mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos. Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution. Surrealists were interested in exposing the complex and repressed inner worlds of sexuality, desire, and violence, and interest in these topics fostered transgressive behavior. Surrealism

29. Son of Man (1964) by René Magritte

30. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali (1931)

31. Vague umbrella term for any painting or sculpture which does not portray recognizable objects or scenes. a movement that they translated into a new style fitted to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. Their art was championed for being emphatically American in spirit - monumental in scale, romantic in mood, and expressive of a rugged individual freedom. Abstract were profoundly influenced by the style and by its focus on the unconscious. It encouraged their interest in myth and archetypal symbols. Abstract

32. Yellow Grey Black by Jackson Pollock (1947)

33. Suprematism by Kasimir malevich (1919)

34. Art that depends on movement for its effects The Kinetic art movement represented a revitalization of that tradition, by utilizing mechanical or natural motion to bring about a new relationship between art and technology. The Kinetic art movement represented a revitalization of that tradition, by utilizing mechanical or natural motion to bring about a new relationship between art and technology. "Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.“ - Alexander Calder Kinetic Art

35. Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery was a major shift for the direction of modernism. Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Pop art has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art. the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. Pop artists searched for traces of the same trauma in the mediated world of advertising, cartoons, and popular imagery at large. Pop artists seemingly embraced the post-WWII manufacturing and media boom. Pop Art

36. Artists have been intrigued by the nature of perception and by optical effects and illusions for many centuries. Optical, art typically employs abstract patterns composed with a stark contrast of foreground and background - often in black and white for maximum contrast - to produce effects that confuse and excite the eye. Op art seemed to supply a style that was highly appropriate to modern society. The pinnacle of the movement's success was 1965, when the Museum of Modern Art embraced the style with the exhibition The Responsive Eye, which showcased 123 paintings and sculptures Optical Art

37. Artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. Photorealists acknowledge the modern world's mass production and proliferation of photographs, and they do not deny their dependence on photographs. Photorealism

38. Avant-garde (art forms) “ Ahead of its time”. Is traditionally used to describe any artist, group or style, which is considered to be significantly ahead of the majority in its technique, subject matter, or application.

39. That’s All Thank You

40. Reference MOMA Museum of Modern Art