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MIDTERM - MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY ART Flashcards

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  • term that signifies the philosophy and style of the artworks produced during the 1860-1970 era.
  • This art broke with convention,
    dealt with new subject matter, focused
    on conceptual concerns, and changed
    the position of the artist within society.
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modern art

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  • combines the unconscious with the conscious, in order to create a new “super-reality”.
  • artist tries to capture the subject not from
    real world, but from the world of dreams,
    imaginations and fantasies.

THE PERSISTANCE OF MEMORY

BROKEN COLUMN

GIRL WITH DEATH MASK (SHE PLAYS ALONE)

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surrealism

salvador dali

frida kahlo

frida kahlo

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  • In this method the artist tries to present the
    subject as it is, or objectively.
  • The realist tries to make a faithful rendition of the work based on what he sees which can be in the form of objects, sceneries, activities and figures.

OLD SPANISH CHURCH
DALAGANG FILIPINA

PORTRAIT OF JOSE RIZAL
VENDEDORA DE FLORES

THE CHESS PLAYERS
MISS AMELIA VAN BUREN

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realism

fernando amorsolo
fernando amorsolo

juan luna
juan luna

thomas eakins
thomas eakins

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  • the artist is characterized as
    one concerned more with the technique of suggesting light and color to the picture than with the subject matter.
  • The founding Impressionist artists – including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Edgar Degas, among others

Woman with a Parasol

The Basket of Apples Still life

Girl with Peaches

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impressionism

madam monet and her son

paul cezanne

valentin serov

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  • This style of painting flourished in France from 1898 to 1908.
  • The wildness manifested itself mainly in the
    strong colors and dynamic brushwork to connote joy and happiness, as well as comfort and pleasure.

Portrait of Madame Matisse/ The Green
Stripe
The Dessert: Harmony in Red

The Estaque

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fauvism

henri matisse
henri matisse

georges braque

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  • father of cubism
  • advised painters to “treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective, so that each side of an object or a plane is directed toward a central point.”
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cezanne

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one of the most vital and dynamic figures who emerged during the 60s and continues to make an impact up to the present.

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ang kiukok

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CUBISM

Weeping Woman
Factory Hortade Ebbo

AngMagbabayo(Pounding Rice)

Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers

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pablo picasso
pablo picasso

vicente manansala

Marc Chagall

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  • the artist portrays the subject that
    literally relates to the future, and not to the
    present.
  • futuristic portrayals are
    seen on futuristic machines or futuristic human beings like androids.

Memories of a Night
Dynamism of a Car

Cityscape

Street Light

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futurism

luigi russolo
luigi russolo

tulio crali

giacomo balla

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  • followed in the same vein as Futurism in that it relished in the innovative advances of the machine age and embraced the possible virtues of dynamic change that were to follow
  • style is defined by bold colors, harsh lines
    and sharp angles along with a fascination in the machine age.

Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill‘

Red Stone Dancer

Abstract Composition

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vorticism

Jacob Epstein

Gaudier-Brzeska

Jessica Dismorr

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  • embraced theory that art should be
    “constructed” from modern industrial materials such as plastic, steel, and glass in order to serve a societal purpose instead of merely making an abstract statement.
  • art should directly reflect the modern industrial world.

Proun 99

Rising, Falling, Flying
Folk Motives

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constructivism

El Lissitzky

Lajos Kassak
Lajos Kassak

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His central goal was to break art down to its bare bones, often employing basic shapes, such as squares, triangles, and circles, as well as primary and neutral colors.

Suprematist Composition
Sportsmen

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SUPREMATISM

kazimir malevich (founder)

kazimir malevich

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  • adequately sums up this movement’s aim while also characterizing their intentions on how to achieve that aim: with a simple, direct approach.
  • abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals

Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue
Victory Boogie Woggie

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de stijl

Piet Mondrian

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Perhaps best summed up by the famous Dadaist poet Hugo Ball, the Dadaist goal of art was not to have art be “an end in itself, but [to be] an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.

Glass Tears

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DADA/DADAISM

Man Ray

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  • generally regarded as referring
    to work made between 1970 and
    the present.
  • implies art that is made by living artists,
    but essentially an art is seen as
    something that has never been done before.
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contemporary art

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The movement presented a challenge to
traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects

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pop art

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  • painstaking attention to detail is aimed, without asserting an artist’s personal
    style.
  • These drawings and paintings are so
    immaculate in their precision that it starts to look like it is a photo without a direct reference to the artist who created it.

Strawberry Tart Supreme

McDonald’s Pickup

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photorealism

audrey flak

ralph goings

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  • the idea or concept is the
    most important aspect of the work.
  • it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.

Away from the Flock

One and Three Chairs

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conceptualism

Damien Hirst

Joseph Kasuth

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  • it began in the 1960s and
    instead of being concerned with entertaining its audience, the heart of the artwork is its idea or message
  • may be planned or spontaneous
    and done live or recorded
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performance art

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  • a kind of an immersive work where the
    environment or the space in which the viewer
    steps into or interacts with is transformed or altered

Cadillac Ranch

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installation art

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  • considered as a kind or a spin-off of installation art
  • earth or land art is when the natural
    environment or a specific site art into or Space is transformed by artists.

Land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara Desert

Christo and Jeanne-Claude -S urrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83;

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earth art

D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997

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  • Some of the examples of this include murals, stenciled images, stickers, and installations or installative/ sculptural objects usually out of common objects and techniques.

Banksy, Girl with Balloon

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street art

Photo by Dominic Robinson

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