Modern Art

Early Expressionism

Rejecting the past

Expressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Dada
Surrealism
Abstract Art
Pop Art
Minimalism

Style that portrayed emotions through

distorting form and color
Edvard Munch
Mental illness, depression
Said he would never want to cast of his
illness
Aimed to induce strong reactions in his
viewers

The
Scream

Munch
Vampire

Fauvism
Puberty

1904-1908
Explosion of color, exaggerated and vibrant
Disregard for true/actual color
as if gremlins seized the color knob on the tv
Influenced by non-European tribal art of the
colonies
Leader: Matisse

Matisse
Blue Nude

Cubism
Break down of objects into a multitude of
geometric shapes
Stuck between representation and abstract
Life through a flys eye

Derain Purple Bridge

Braque

Juan Gris

Fishing
Boats

Portrait of
Picasso

Pablo Picasso
Picasso
Italian Girl

Guernica

Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
His mother said, If you become a soldier,
youll be a general. If you become a monk,
youll end upp as the Pope.
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He said,, I
became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Painted around 50,000 pieces
Notorious for relationships with women
Children from many women

Expressionism
1905-1930

Art should express the artists feelings

rather than images of the real world
Distorted exaggerated forms and color
Distorted,
Began with van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch
Dark colors and woodcuts relay sadness of
war

Kathe
Kollwitz
Poverty

What is art?
Nolde
Wildly
Dancing
Children

Come up with a definition for art.

What isnt art?

Abstract Art
Began with Kandinsky in 1919
Post WWII to 80s
Abandon any reference to recognizable
reality
No subject
Color can convey emotion even without
content
Founder: Kandinsky

Kandinsky
Improvisation
31

Abstract art is art that does not depict objects in the natural world,
but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way

Mondrian
Composition A:
Composition with
Black, Red, Gray,
Yellow, and Blue
Used only
primary colors
and non-colors
Black Spot I

Duchamp
Fountain

Dada Art
1916-1923
Got its name from nonsense
French for hobby horse

Protested the madness of war

Founded by WWI refugees
Strategy was to denounce and shock

Duchamp
Mona Lisa
with
moustache

Joan Miro

Surrealism
1920s and 1930s
Implies going beyond realism
Painted the bizarre and irrational to express
truths
Defy common sense
Looks like a dream-world

1893-1983

Invented unique biomorphic images

Geometric shapes and amoeba-like blobs
Colorful playful
Colorful,
Cartoon from another planet

The
Policeman

Dutch
Interior I

Salvador Dali
1904-1989

Chagall
I and
d th
the
Village

Exploited his own personality quirks

Fears: bugs, crossing streets, trains, boats,
airplanes, Metro, buying shoes in public
Actual objects but distorted
Had the canvas next to his bed and woke to paint
dreamscapes
Disliked by some because of his fascination with
Hitler
Pulled publicity stunts
Gave speech with foot in pail of milk
Press conference with lobster on his head
Wore a diving suit and lectured but no one could hear
him and he started to asphyxiate himself

The Persistence of Memory

Crucifixion

Portrait of
Paul Eluard

Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition

Cannibalism
in Autumn
A

Rene Magritte
1898-1967
Le sicle des
lumires
The Century of
Lights

Abstract Expressionism

Also called action painting

40s-50s
Came out of the jazz era
erass lack of form
No longer was art required to be a visual
representation of some object
Jackson Pollock=Jack the Dripper (1912-1956)
Matisse Threatening Weather

Paint Hard, Live Hard

Died drunk in a car crash-age 44

Jackson
Pollock
Eyes in the
Heat

Lavender Mist

Minimalists
Color Field
Huge canvases of color
Representations of feelings and ideas

Hard Edge
Calculated, simple forms
Colors in harmony

Color Field
Rothko
1968

Hard Edge
Kelly Elsworth

Rothko
White Center

Frank Stella
Harran II

Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red

Pop Art

1950 s and 1960s

Derived from the word popular
Used everyday items as inspiration for art
Soup cans and comic strips
Mass produced
Pope of Pop: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

6 hour movie called Sleep

Roy Lichtenstein
Go for Baroque

Modern Art Homework

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