MODERN ART

1st Quarter
 Impressionism
The term precisely captured what this group
of artists sought to represent in their
works: the viewer’s momentary “impression”
of an image. It was not intended to be
clear or precise, but more like a fleeting
fragment of reality caught on canvas,
sometimes in mid-motion, at other times
awkwardly positioned – just as it would be in
real life
 Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th
century art movement that began
as a loose association of Paris based
artists, who began exhibiting their art
publicly in the 1860’s. The name of
the movement is derived from the
title of a Claude Monet painting,
called “Impression, Sunrise”.
The Impressionists changed
the approach to painting, by
recreating the sensation in
the eye that views the
subject, rather than
recreating the subject.
 Impressionism

Distinct Characteristics:
1. Color and Light
- Short broken strokes
- Pure unmixed colors side by side
- Freely brushed colors
(convey visual effect)
 Impressionism

Distinct Characteristics:
2. Everyday Subjects
- Scenes of life
- Household objects
- Landscapes and Seascapes
- Houses, Cafes, Buildings
 Impressionism
Distinct Characteristics:
3. Painting Outdoors
- Previously, still lifes, portraits, and
landscapes were painted inside the
studio. The impressionists found that they
could best capture the ever-changing
effects of light on color by painting
outdoors in natural light.
 Impressionism

Distinct Characteristics:
4. Open Composition
- Impressionist painting also moved
away from the formal, structured
approach to placing and
positioning their subjects.
 Masters Of
Impressionism
• Claude Monet
– Landscapes, Lily ponds
& Gardens
• Auguste Renoir
– People Outdoors
• Edouard Manet
– Modern-life subjects
CLAUDE MONET
-was one of the founders of the impressionist
movement along with his friends Auguste
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Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille. He
was the most prominent of the group and
considered as the most influential figure in the
movement.
 CLAUDE MONET WORKS:

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Impression, Sunrise La Promenade
Claude Monet, 1872 Claude Monet, 1875
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 CLAUDE MONET WORKS:

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Irises in Monet’s Garden Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1900 Claude Monet, 1899
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
AUGUSTE RENOIR
-His early works were snapshots of real life, and
full of sparkling color and light.
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- By the mid-1880’s, he broke away from the
impressionist movement to apply a more
disciplined, formal technique to portraits of
actual peopleand figure paintings.
 RENOIR SAMPLE WORKS:

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Dancer A Girl with A Watering Can
Auguste Renoir, 1874 Auguste Renoir, 1876
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 RENOIR SAMPLE WORKS:

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Luncheon at the Boating Party

Mlle Irene Cahen d’Anvers
Auguste Renoir, 1881
Oil on canvasOil
Oil on Canvas
EDOUARD MANET
-was one of the first 19th-century artists to
depict modern-life subjects.
01-He was a key figure in the transition from
realism to impressionism, with a number of his
works considered as a marking the birth of
modern art.
 MANET SAMPLE WORKS:

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Argenteuil The Bar At The Folies-Bergere
Edouard Manet, 1874 Edouard Manet, 1882
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 Post-impressionism
Works of Cezanne and Van Gogh
 Post-impressionism

▪ The European artists who were the

forefront of this movement continued
using the basic qualities of the
impressionists before them-vivid colors,
heavy brush strokes, and true-to-life
subjects.
 Post-impressionism

▪ Post-Impressionism refers to an artistic

style that followed Impressionism at
the end of the 1800s.
▪ Most Post-Impressionist artists began
as Impressionists, but then decided to
try new ideas.
 Post-impressionism
▪ They expanded and experimented
with these in bold new ways, like using
a geometric approach, fragmenting
objects and distorting people’s faces
and body parts, and applying colors
that were not necessarily realistic or
natural.
 PAUL CEZANNE
▪ Was a French artist and post-
impressionist painter. His work
exemplified the transition from
late 19th century impressionism
to a new and radically different
world of art in the 20th century.
 PAUL CEZANNE
▪ Cezanne began painting outdoors
in 1872 and exhibited with the
Impressionists a few times before
breaking with them in 1887.
▪ He focused on arrangements of
constructed forms, geometric forms
 CEZANNE SAMPLE WORKS:

Still Life with Compotier Boy in a Red Vest

Paul Cezanne, 1879-1882 Paul Cezanne, 1880
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 VINCENT VAN GOGH
▪ Was a post-impressionist painter from
the Netherlands. His works were
remarkable for their strong, heavy
brush strokes, intense emotions, and
colors that appeared to almost
pulsate with energy.
 VAN GOGH SAMPLE WORKS:

Bedroom at Arles Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888 Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 VAN GOGH SAMPLE WORKS:

Still Life:Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers The Sower

Vincent Van Gogh, 1888 Vincent Van Gogh, 1888
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
EXPRESSIONISM: A Bold
New Movement
∙ Neo-primitivism
∙ Fauvism
∙ Dadaism
∙ Surrealism
∙ Social Realism
 EXPRESSIONISM: A New Bold
Movement

Sub-Movements:
1. Fauvism
- Uses bold, vibrant colors and visual
distortions.
2. Dadaism
- Characterized by dream fantasies,
memory images, and visual
tricks and fantasies.
 Fauvism Sample Artworks

Blue Window Woman With A Hat

Henri Matisse, 1911 Henri Matisse, 1905
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 Dadaism Sample Artworks

Melancholy and Mystery of A Mystery of A Street

Giorgio De Chirico, 1914
Oil on Canvas
 EXPRESSIONISM: A New Bold
Movement

Sub-Movements:
3. Surrealism
- Depicts an illogical subconscious
dream world beyond the logical,
conscious, physical one.
4. Social Realism
- Expresses the artist’s role
in social reform.
 Surrealism Sample Artworks

Persistence of Memory Personages with Star

Salvador Dali, 1931 Joan Miro, 1933
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
 Surrealism Sample Artworks

I and the Village

Marc Chagall, 1911
Oil on Canvas
 Social Realism Sample Artworks

Guernica Miner’s Wives

Pablo Picasso, 1937 Ben Shahn, 1948
Oil on Canvas Egg Tempera on Board
 EXPRESSIONISM: A New Bold
Movement

Sub-Movements:
5. Neo-primitivism
- describe forms of visual art and poetry
that were tendentiously crude in style
and socially and politically contentious
in terms of subject matter.
 Neo-primitivism Sample Artworks

Yellow Sweater Head

Amedeo Modigliani, 1919 Amedeo Modigliani, 1913
Oil on Canvas Stone
 ABSTRACTIONISM
Grouped under Abstractionism are the following art
styles:
❑ Cubism
❑ Futurism
❑ Mechanical Style
❑ Non-Objectivism
OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify and describe distinct
characteristics of arts from the various art
movements.
2. Interpret the characteristics of an abstract
art.
3. Create a modern artwork by applying different
media techniques and processes to communicate
ideas, experiences, and stories showing the
characteristics of the various art movements.
ABSTRACTIONISM
-This movement arose from the intellectual
points of view in the 20th century. While
Expressionism was emotional, abstractionism
was logical and rational. It involved analyzing,
detaching, selecting, and simplifying.
Sub-movements under Abstractionism:
❑ Cubism
❑ Futurism
❑ Mechanical Style
❑ Non-Objectivism
CUBISM
• It’s name derived from the cube, a three-
dimensional geometric figure composed of
strictly measured lines, planes, and
angles.
• Artworks were a play of planes and
angles on a flat surface.
• Foremost among
the cubists was
Spanish
painter/sculptor
Pablo Picasso.
CUBISM
• The cubists analyzed their subjects’
basic geometrical forms, and broke
them up into a series of planes. Then
they re-assembled these planes, tilting
and interlocking them in different ways.
SAMPLE CUBISM ARTWORKS:

Girl Before A Mirror Three Musicians

Pablo Picasso, 1932 Pablo Picasso, 1921
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
FUTURISM
• As the name implies, the futurists
created art for a fast-paced, machine-
propelled age.
• They admired the motion, force,
speed, and strength of mechanical
forms
SAMPLE FUTURISM ARTWORK:

Armored Train
Gino Severini, 1915
Oil on Canvas
MECHANICAL STYLE
• The result of the futurist movement.
Basic forms such as planes, cones,
spheres, and cylinders all fit together
precisely and neatly in their
appointed places.
SAMPLE MECHANICAL STYLE ARTWORK:

The City
Fernand Leger, 1919
Oil on Canvas
NON-OBJECTIVISM
• From the very term “non-object,”
works in this style did not make use
of figures or even representations of
figures.
NON-OBJECTIVISM
• Lines, shapes, and colors were used
in a cool, impersonal approach that
aimed for balance, unity, and stability.
• Colors were mainly black, white, and
the primaries (red, yellow, and blue).
SAMPLE NON-ONJECTIVISM ARTWORK:

New York City

Piet Mondrian, 1942
Oil on Canvas
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Sub-Movements:
1. Action Painting
- The techniques could be splattering,
squirting, and dribbling paint with no pre-planned
design.
2. Color Field Painting
- Uses different color saturations to create
desired effects.
Pollock worked on huge
canvases spread on the
floor, splattering, squirting,
and dribbling paint with
(seemingly) no pre-planned
pattern or design in mind.
The total effect is one of
vitality, creativity, “energy
made visible.” Pollock’s first
one-man show in New York
in 1943 focused worldwide
attention on abstract
expressionism
for the first time.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Autumn Rhythm
Jackson Pollock, 1950
Oil on Canvas
 COLOR FIELD PAINTING
In contrast to the vigorous
gestures of the action painters,
another group of artists who came
to be known as “color field painters”
used different color saturations
(purity, vividness, intensity) to
create their desired effects. Some of
their works were (purity, vividness,
intensity) to create their desired
effects. Some of their works were
huge fields of vibrant color—as in
the paintings of Mark Rothko and Magenta, Black, Green on Orange
Mark Rothko, 1949
Barnett Newman. Oil on canvas
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Barnett Newman, 1950-1951
Oil on canvas
Others took the more intimate “pictograph” approach, filling the canvas
with repeating picture fragments or symbols—as in the works of
Adolph Gottlieb and Lee Krasner.

Forgotten Dream Abstract No. 2

Adolph Gottlieb, 1946 Lee Krasner, 1948
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
 POP ART
Distinct Characteristics:
1. Range of Work
- From painting, to posters, collages, 3D
assemblages, and installations.
2. Inspirations/Subjects
-Advertisements, celebrities, billboards,
and comic strips.
 OP ART
Distinct Characteristics:
1. A form of action painting with the
action taking place in the viewer’s eye.
2. As the eye moved over a diff.
segments of the image, perfectly
stable components appeared to shift
back and forth.
Twelve Cars Marilyn Monroe
Andy Warhol, 1962 Andy Warhol, 1967
Art print Silkscreen print
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American pop artist.
During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and
James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in
this new art movement.

Whaam!
Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
Acrylic and oil on canvas
In the Car
Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
 CONCEPTUAL ART
As the term implies, conceptual art was that
which arose in the mind of the artist, took concrete
form for a time, and then disappeared (unless it was
captured in photo or film documentation).
Conceptualists questioned the idea of art as objects
to be bought and sold. Instead, they brought their
artistic ideas to life temporarily, using such unusual
materials as grease, blocks of ice, food, even just
plain dirt.
CONCEPTUAL ART
One and Three
Chairs
by Joseph Kosuth,
1965
An actual chair
(center), with a
photograph of the
same chair
and an enlarged copy
of a dictionary
definition of a chair
 OP ART
Another movement that emerged in the
1960s was optical art or “Op art.” This was yet
another experiment in visual experience—a form
of “action painting,” with the action taking place in
the viewer’s eye. In op art, lines, spaces, and
colors were precisely planned and positioned to
give the illusion of movement.
OP ART

Current
Bridget Riley, 1964
Synthetic polymer
paint on composition
board
OP ART
CONTEMPORARY ART
FORMS
 INSTALLATION ART
- Uses sculptural materials and other
media to modify the viewer’s experience in a
particular space.
- Usually lifesize or even larger.
Installation can be constructed in everyday
public or private spaces both indoor and
outdoor.
 INSTALLATION ART

Cordillera Labyrinth Go to Room 117

Roberto Villanueva, 1989 Sid Gomez Hildawa, 1990
 PERFORMANCE ART
-The actions of the performers may
constitute work. It can happen any time at
any place for any length of time.
-It may include activities such as
theater, dance, music, mime, juggling,
and gymnastics.