A. Expressionism - A Movement That Began in Europe in The Early 1900s. It Was More Concerned With Various Styles
A. Expressionism - A Movement That Began in Europe in The Early 1900s. It Was More Concerned With Various Styles
A. Expressionism – A movement that began in Europe in the early 1900s. It was more concerned with
emotional impact rather than with realistic or natural images.
Various Styles:
Neoprimitivism – was an art style that incorporated elements from the native arts of the South Sea
Islanders and the wood carvings of African tribes.
Fauvism – A style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.
Dadaism – A style characterized by dream, fantasies, memory, images and visual tricks
Surrealism – A style that depicted an illogical subconscious dream world beyond the logical.
Social Realism – Expressed the artist’s role in social reform. Artist used their works to protest
against the injustices, inequalities, immorality, and ugliness of the human condition.
B. Abstractionism – logical and rational and it reduced an image into geometrical shapes, patterns,
lines, angles, textures, and fields or strokes of color-in effect, the elements of art.
Various styles:
Cubism - derived its name from the cube and play of planes and angles on a flat surface
Futurism - As the name implies, futurists created art for a fast-paced, machine-propelled age.
Mechanical Style – Basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders all fit together
precisely and neatly in their appointed places.
Non-objectivism – Works in this style did not make use of figures or even representations of
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figures.
Task
1. show them a sample picture of movements under expressionism and abstractionism.
2. Let the students identify to what movement it belongs based on their analysis and interpretation of
the picture.