MODERN ART

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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3 4
REVIEW TIME !!!!
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 20th
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
20th 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.