MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY ART Flashcards
is a term that signifies the philosophy and style of the artworks produced during the 1860- 1970 era.
MODERN ART
This art broke with convention, dealt with new subject matter, focused on conceptual concerns, and changed
the position of the artist within society.
MODERN ART
▫ combines the unconscious with the conscious, in order to create a new “super-reality”.
▫ The artist tries to capture the subject not from real world, but from the world of dreams, imaginations and fantasies.
SURREALISM
EXAMPLE OF SURREALISM
THE PERSISTANCE OF MEMORY by SALVADOR DALI
THE BROKEN COLUMN by FRIDA KAHLO
GIRL WITH DEATH MASK (SHE PLAYS ALONE) by FRIDA KAHLO
▫ 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.
REALISM
EXAMPLE OF REALISM
OLD SPANISH CHURCH by FERNANDO AMORSOLO
DALAGANG FILIPINA by FERNANDO AMORSOLO
PORTRAIT OF JOSE RIZAL by JUAN LUNA
VENDEDORA DE FLORES by JUAN LUNA
THE CHESS PLAYERS by THOMAS EAKINS
MISS AMELIA VAN BUREN by THOMAS EAKINS
▫ In this method of painting, 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 _____ artists – including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Edgar Degas, among others
IMPRESSIONISM
EXAMPLE OF IMPRESSIONISM
Woman with a Parasol – Madam Monet and Her Son
The Basket of Apples Still life by Paul Cézanne
Girl with Peaches by Valentin Serov
▫ 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.
FAUVISM
EXAMPLE OF FAUVISM
Portrait of Madame Matisse/ The Green Stripe by Henri Matisse
The Dessert: Harmony in Red by Henri Mattisse
The Estaque by Georges Braque
▫ Cezane, who is known as the Father of ____, 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.”
▫ In the Philippines, Ang Kiukok is one of the most vital and dynamic figures who emerged during the 60s and continues to make an impact up to the present.
CUBISM
who is the father of cubism?
Cezane
EXAMPLE OF CUBISM
Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso
Factory Horta de 27Ebbo by Pablo Picasso
Ang Magbabayo (Pounding Rice) by Vicente Manansala
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers by Marc Chagall
▫ In this method, the artist portrays the subject that literally relates to the future, and not to the present.
▫ In this modern world, ____ portrayals are seen on _____ machines or futuristic human beings like androids.
FUTURISM
EXAMPLE OF FUTURISM
Memories of a Night by Luigi 31 Russolo
Cityscape by 32 Tullio Crali
Dynamism of a Car by Luigi 33 Russolo
Street Light by Giacomo 34 Balla
▫ 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.
▫ The style is defined by bold colors, harsh lines and sharp angles along with a fascination in the machine age.
VORTICISM
EXAMPLE OF VORTICISM
Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill‘ Artist: Jacob Epstein
Red Stone Dancer by Gaudier 38 -Brzeska
Abstract Composition by Jessica 39 Dismorr
▫ 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.
▫ The ______ believed art should directly reflect the modern industrial world.
CONSTRUCTIVISM
EXAMPLE OF CONSTRUCTIVISM
Proun 99 by El 41 Lissitzky
Rising, Falling, Flying by Lajos 42 Kassak
Folk Motives by Lajos 43 Kassak
▫ Kazimir Malevich is viewed as its founder.
▫ 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.
SUPREMATISM
EXAMPLE OF SUPREMATISM
Suprematist Composition by 46 Kazimir Malevich
Sportsmen by Kazimir 47 Malevich
▫ The name ___ (Dutch for “The Style”) 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.
DE STIJL
EXAMPLE OF DE STIJL
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue Artist by Piet Mondrian
Victory Boogie Woggie 50 by Piet Mondrian
▫ 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.”
DADA/DADAISM
EXAMPLE OF DADAISM
Glass Tears by Man Ray
▫ The term “_____” is generally regarded as referring to work made between 1970 and the present.
▫ It also implies art that is made by living artists, but essentially contemporary art is seen as
something that has never been done before.
CONTEMPORARY ART
▫ 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.
POP ART
▫ In ____, a 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.
PHOTOREALISM
EXAMPLE OF PHOTOREALISM
Strawberry Tart Supreme by Audrey Flack
McDonald’s Pickup by Ralph Goings 60
▫”In conceptual art, the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an
artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.” (LeWitt, 1967)
CONCEPTUALISM
EXAMPLE OF CONCEPRUALISM
Away from the Flock by Damien 62 Hirst
One and Three Chairs by Joseph 63 Kasuth
▫ As a movement, it began in the 1960s and instead of being concerned with entertaining its
audience, the heart of the artwork is its idea or message.
▫ Performance art may be planned or spontaneous and done live or recorded.
PERFORMANCE ART
▫ a kind of an immersive work where the environment or the space in which the viewer steps into or interacts with (going around installative art) is transformed or altered.
INSTALLATION ART
EXAMPLE OF INSTALLATION ART
Cadillac Ranch 66
▫ 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.
EARTH ART
EXAMPLE OF EARTH ART
Land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara Desert by the D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Surrounded Islands,
Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83;
▫ Some of the examples of this include murals, stenciled images, stickers, and installations or
installative/ sculptural objects usually out of common objects and techniques.
STREET ART
EXAMPLE OF STREET ART
Banksy, Girl with Balloon. Photo by Dominic Robinson, via Flickr
TYPES OF MODERN ART
SURREALISM
REALISM
IMPRESSIONISM
FAUVISM
CUBISM
FUTURISM
VORTICISM
CONSTRUCTIVISM
SUPREMATISM
DE STIJL
DADA/DADAISM
TYPES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
POP ART
PHOTOREALISM
CONCEPTUALISM
PERFORMANCE ART
INSTALLATION ART
EARTH ART
STREET ART
