Topic 3: Modern Vs Contemporary Art Flashcards
is a term that signifies the philosophy and style
of the artworks produced during the 1860-1970 era.
Modern art
refers to work made between 1970 and the present
Contemporary art
In this method the artist tries to present the subject as it is or objectively ; faithful
Realism
• 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
Use of light colors
Impressionism
This art technique involved painting tiny yet distinct dots next to one another in order to form an image.
Pointillism
Demanded with more scientific approach. World of optics
Pointillism
Bright colors and dynamic brushwork
to connote joy and happiness, as well as comfort and pleasure.
Fauvism
Shapes like cylinder sphere etc
Cubism
In this method, the artist portrays the subject that literally relates to the future, and not to the present.
Futurism
The style is defined by bold colors, harsh lines
and sharp angles along with a fascination in the machine age.
Vorticism
that art should be “constructed” from modern industrial materials
Constructivism
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
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
a painstaking attention to detail is aimed, without asserting an artist’s personal
style ; reality
Photorealism
the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work
Conceptualism
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 is transformed or altered.
Installation art
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
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
