Modern ARTS Styles Of Modern Art Flashcards
MODERN ART
STYLES OF MODERN ART
Enumerate
• Impressionism
• Expressionism
• Cubism
• Surrealism
• OP art
• Abstract Expressionism
It was developed in the last quarter of the 19th century.
IMPRESSIONISM
Its name was coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude Monet, __________.
IMPRESSIONISM ; Impression Sunrise
IMPRESSIONISM
- is characterized by _______, __________, ______________, ordinary subject matter and unusual visual angles
Visible brushstrokes, light small touches colors, subtlety of tone/shades
IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionist is a style in which?
the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it.
IMPRESSIONISM
Artists painted outdoors to catch a ___________________________________.
particular fleeting impression of color and light
IMPRESSIONISTS
• Claude Monet
• Pierre-August Renoir
ARTIST
He influenced the development of Impressionism.
Claude Monet
ARTIST
He painted everyday objects.
Claude Monet
ARTIST
Claude Monet’s style in paintings
His style in paintings used variation of colors and lights and captured them by the daily seasonal changes in nature. This is the reason why he became one of the well-known landscape painters in the history of art.
ARTIST
Impression Sunrise, painted in 1872
Claude Monet; Impressionist
ARTIST
Impression Sunrise, medium _____
Oil paint; Impressionism
ARTIST
He loved to show the effect of sunlight on flowers and figures.
Pierre-August Renoir
ARTIST
They painted the French countryside and river scenes.
Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley; Impressionist
ARTIST
enjoyed painting ballet dancers and horse races.
Edgar Degas; Impressionist
ARTIST
painted women doing everyday things.
Berthe Morisot; Impressionist
WORKS
It is one of Renoir’s largest and most ambitious compositions.
Bal du moulin de la Galette; Impressionist
WORK
What does Bal du moulin de la Galette depicts?
Pierre-August Renoir; Impressionist
- The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette.
WORK
It shows a _______________, a _______________, and a __________.
Location: Musee d’ Orsay, Paris
Medium: Oil on Canvas
richness of form, fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light.
• Bal du moulin de la Galette; Renoir; Impressionism
What is EXPRESSIONISM?
An artistic movement where artists express their innermost feelings rather than to represent the external world.
It focuses on capturing emotions and feelings with the use of vivid colors and bold strokes.
EXPRESSIONISM
___________ and ______________ in colors were used to convey the deep pain of the subject
Swirling lines and sharp contrast in colors; EXPRESSIONISM
EXPRESSIONISTS
• Edvard Munch
• Vincent Van Gogh
ARTIST
A Norwegian painter and printmaker who pioneered the Expressionism Movement in modern painting.
Edvard Munch
ARTIST
Edvard Munch’s paintings are characterized by what?
an intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes displaying man’s dark side.
ARTIST
He used brilliant colors to depict death, agony, anxiety, and human suffering.
Edvard Munch
WORK
- depicts the battle between the individual and society.
“The Scream”; Edvard Munch; Expressionism
WORK
Location: National Gallery and Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Medium : Oil, tempera, and paste on cardboard
The Scream; Edvard Munch; Expressionism
ARTIST
He was considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt.
Vincent Van Gogh; Expressionism
ARTIST
The style and content of his paintings involved a _______, __________, _________, and used an __________, _________________ of paint and _______________ to express subjective emotions.
fusion of dramatic, imaginative, rhythmic, impulsive, gestural application of paint and symbolic colors
WORK
One of the most recognized pieces of art in the world.
“Starry Night”; Vincent Van Gogh; Expressionism
WORK
painted in 1889 from a room in the mental asylum at Saint-Remy where was recovering from mental illness and his ear amputation.
Starry Night; Van Gogh; Expressionism
WORK
Analysists of ___________ emphasize the symbolism of the stylized cypress tree in the foreground, linking it to death and the expressionist’ eventual suicide.
Starry Night; Van Gogh; Expressionism
Is an artistic movement, created by Pablo Picasso and George Braque which employs geometric shapes in depictions of human and other forms.
CUBISM
What is CUBISM art?
The artist tries to show all sides of an object and reduces recognizable images to geometric forms
Compared to jigsaw puzzle
Cubism
TWO MAIN TYPES OF CUBISM
• Analytical Cubism
• Synthetic Cubism
- The first stage of the Cubism movement was called __________________.
Analytical Cubism
What kind of art style is Analytical Cubism?
In this style, artists would study or analyze the subject and break it up into different blocks.
They would look at the blocks from different angles. Then they would reconstruct the subject, painting the blocks from various viewpoints.
Analytical Cubism
- This stage of Cubism introduced the idea of adding in other materials in a collage.
Synthetic Cubism; second stage of Cubism
Artists would use __________, ___________, and _________ to represent the different blocks of the subject.
Synthetic Cubism; Colored paper, newspapers, and other materials
This stage also introduced brighter colors and a lighter mood to the art.
Synthetic Cubism
CUBISTS
• Pablo Picasso
• George Braque
ARTIST
He was the first to use such unrealistic style.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
ARTIST
He was the leader of a new movement in art called cubism.
Pablo Picasso
WORK
Guernica, 1973
Pablo Picasso
WORK
What does Guernica shows?
Shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon innocent civilians.
WORK
__________ is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
Guernica
ARTIST
Founder of cubism
George Braque (1882 - 1963)
George Braque is a leading exponent of this art form.
Collage cubism
___________ is a technique of pasting up cut and pasted scrap materials drawn or painted upon to create representedational meaning.
Collage cubism; George Braque
WORK
Medium : Cut-and-pasted printed and painted paper, charcoal, pencil, and gouache on gessoed canvas
GUITAR, 1913; George Braque; Cubism
OP ART also known as?
also known as optical art, a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions.
Many referred to it as kinetic art because the effects that cause illusions include vibrating colors, lively patterns, and concentric colors.
OP ART
The patterns _____________ and cause it so see movement.
OP ART; disturb the eye
4 characteristics of Op Art:
• Exist to fool the eye.
• It is not meant to represent reality
• It is not created by chance
• Op art relies on two specific techniques
CHARACTERISTICS OF OP ART
OP compositions create a sort of visual tension in the viewer’s mind that gives works the illusion of movement.
Exist to fool the eye
CHARACTERISTICS OF OP ART
Op art relies on two specific techniques;
- perspective and careful juxtaposition of color.
The color may be chromatic (identifiable hues) or achromatic (black, white, or gray)
OP ARTISTS
• Victor Vasarely
• Maurits Cornelis Escher
ARTIST
Accepted as a “grandfather” and leader of the Op Art movement
Victor Vasarely
ARTIST
Born: April 9, 1906
Died: March 15, 1997
Nationality: Hungarian-French
Victor Vasarely
WORK
Title: ZEBRA,1937
Style: OP Art
Dimensions: 52 x 60 cm
Artist: Victor Vasarely; OP Art
ARTIST
Graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Maurits Cornelis Escher; OP Artist
ARTIST
Born: June 17, 1898
Died: March 27, 1972
Nationality: Dutch
Maurits Cornelis Escher; OP Artist
WORK
Is a lithograph print that depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply.
RELATIVITY; OP ART
WORK
Artists: ___________
Created: December 1953
Dimensions: 27.7 cm x 29.2
Maurits Cornelis Escher; OP ART
A movement that grew out of dada.
SURREALISM
An art movement inspired by ____________.
Scientific research; SURREALISM
Fascinated by the studies of renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud
SURREALISM
SURREALISM portrays what?
Portrays the reality and intensity of the subconscious mind filled with strange images.
Its name came from the term “_________,” with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though the artists were dreaming, seeing illusions, or experiencing an altered mental state.
super realism; SURREALISM
Features of Surrealistic Art
• Dream-like scenes and symbolic images
• Automatism and a spirit of spontaneity
• Unexpected, illogical juxtapositions
• Distorted figures and biomorphic (abstract) shapes
SURREALISTS
• Salvador Dali
• Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim
ARTIST
He was one of the most famous Spanish-Catalan surrealist painters in the 20th century and an icon of the Surrealist movement.
Salvador Dali
ARTIST
Born: May 11, 1904
Died: January 23, 1989
Nationality: French
Salvador Dali; SURREALIST
WORK
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY can be interpreted as?
This painting can be interpreted as a mockery setting of time passing, the passage from birth to death, the way of life.
WORK
The soft watches are in effect all stopped. Time has become elastic, like the pocket watches. The memories, the image of these watches, deform to become soft things, malleable, where time no longer counts.
The Persistence Of Memory; Salvador Dali; Surrealism
WORK
This also reflects the passage to eternity, the symbolic death.
The Persistence Of Memory; Salvador Dali; Surrealism
ARTIST
She was the only Surrealist who had any authority on psychoanalysis.
Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim
ARTIST
Swiss painter and sculptor
Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; SURREALIST
WORK
It is viewed by many as the definitive surrealist object.
LUNCHEON IN FUR; Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; Surrealism
WORK
Both tea and fur were (then as now) a mark of _________, sipped and worn by refined ladies. The combination, however, distinctively uncivilized.
civilization
– LUNCHEON IN FUR; Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; Surrealism
WORK
Artists : _________________
Medium : Fur-covered cup
Created : 1936
Location : The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; LUNCHEON IN FUR
ARTIST
Born: October 6, 1913, Germany
Died : November 15, 1985
Nationality: Swiss
Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim; SURREALIST
Is a term used to describe new forms of abstract art that developed in America around the late 1940s and 1950s.
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
It produced paintings that are abstract but expressed the artist’s _________.
State of mind; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM is also called “___________,”
action painting
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM is characterized as?
It is characterised by non-objective imagery that appeared emotionally charged with personal meaning.
Key characteristics of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
• Unconventional application of paint, usually without a recognizable subject
• Emotional expression dripping, smearing, slathering paint on canvas
• Spontaneous, automatic and subconscious creation
• Vivid colors
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS
• William De Kooning
• Jackson Pollock
ARTIST
He is a Dutch-born painter and decorator who went to New York and became one of the most consistent longest-lived abstract expressionists.
WILLIAM DE KOONING
ARTIST
WILLIAM DE KOONING developed what style?
He developed a style where he employed fierce and slashing brushstrokes.
ARTIST
Born : May 11, 1904
Died : January 23, 1989
WILLIAM DE KOONING; Abstract Expressionist
WORK
What does WOMAN I reflects?
It reflects the age-old cultural ambivalence between reverence for and fear of the power of the feminine.
– WILLIAM DE KOONING; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
WORK
Artists: _____________
Medium: Graphite, Pastel, Crayon, Oil Paint
Created: 1950 - 1952
WOMAN I
– WILLIAM DE KOONING; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
ARTIST
An American painter and labelled as “Jack the Dripper”.
JACKSON POLLOCK
ARTIST
Born: January 28, 1912
Died: August 11, 1956
Nationality: American
JACKSON POLLOCK
Describe JACKSON POLLOCK
He made a revolutionary breakthrough by abandoning the paintbrush altogether.
WORK
It was sold in May 22 2006 for $140 million, a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until April 2011.
NO. 5
– JACKSON POLLOCK; ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
WORK
Artists: Jackson Pollock
Medium : Fiberboard
Created: 1948
NO. 5
WORK
its subtle perversity was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso and the photographer Dora Maar at Paris Café.
LUNCHEON IN FUR; Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim
