MODERNIST ART MOVEMENTS

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Modernist Art Movements. Supply the needed
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Name: Susila Olaganathan

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MOVEMENT CHARACTERISTIC LEADING ARTISTS

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SURREALISM This mainly focused on Salvador Dali, Sigmund

tapping into the Freud, Andre Breton
unconscious mind to
release creativity with
dream-like scenes and
symbolic images
DADA Art should not be an end in Hugo Ball and other
itself but an opportunity for Dadaists
true perception and
criticism of the times we
live in. They were
characterized by an
attitude of mockery and
humor and were based on
absurd things
DE STIJL To achieve the aim with a Theo van Doesburg, Piet
simple direct approach. Mondrian, Jacobus
They worked mainly in Johannes Pieter Oud
abstract style with
unadorned shapes
SUPREMATISM Embrace end of the Kazimir Malevich
abstraction capable by
painting on a canvas. First
movement to utilize pure
geometrical abstraction in
painting
CONSTRUCTIVISM This movement embraced Vladimir Tatlin, Antoine
theory that art should be Pevsner, Naum Gabo
constructed from modern
industrial materials such as
plastic, steel and glass
VORTICISM Vorticism relished in the Wyndham Lewis, T.E.
 innovative advances of the Hulme, Gaudler-Brzeska
machine age and
embraced the possible
virtues of dynamic change
that were to follow
FUTURISM Futurism likened humans Filippo Marinetti,
to machines and vice versa
in order to embrace
change, speed and
innovation in society.
Futurism platform was an
endorsement of war and
misogyny
CUBISM This discards the Pablo Picasso, Georges
conventions of past to Braque, Louis Vauxcelles
merely mimic nature and
start in a new vein to
highlight the flat
dimensionality of canvas
FAUVISM Exhibits vibrant colours in Henri Matisse, Louis
order to capture Vauxcelles, Andre Derain,
landscapes and still-lifes Maurice de Vlaminck,
also to create the more Georges Braque
structured and logical
focuses of cubism
POST- IMPRESSIONISM Extending the limitations of Paul Cezanne, Georges
the movements Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh
predecessor, gain purer
form of expression and
experimenting in varying
directions from intensified
Impressionism