MODERN ART:

Introduction and History

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 How does
Modern Art differ
from Classical
Art?
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 What is
Classicism?

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 A traditional style of art, literature, music,
architecture, etc., that is usually graceful
and simple with parts that are organized in a
pleasing way.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classicism

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 Adherence to the aesthetic values
embodied in ancient Greek and Roman art
and literature.

A style based on the study of Greek and

Roman models, characterized by emotional
restraint and regularity of form.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/classicism

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 What is
Modern Art?

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 Any creative group active in the innovation
and application of new concepts and
techniques in a given field (especially in the
arts).

Traditions of the past have been thrown aside

because of the spirit of experimentation.

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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 * Modern art includes artistic works
produced during the period extending
roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s.

* Modern art can be traced back to the

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, a period that
lasted from the 18th to the 19th century

* Characteristic of the 20th and 21st

centuries and of the later part of the 19th
century.
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 DURING THE MODERN ART:
- Many artists started to make art about
people, places, or ideas that interested them, and
of which they had direct experience.
- Sigmund Freud’s publication triggered
many artists.
- Artists challenged the notion that art
must realistically depict the world.

- Invention of photography.

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 • Artists living in the rapidly modernizing
world of late 19th-century Europe wished
not only to depict modern (for them,
contemporary) everyday life, but also to
reveal the emotional and psychological
effects of living in a world in rapid flux.

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 Color
speaks for
itself with a
directness
previously
unknown in
Western
painting

LANDSCAPE AT COLLIOURE
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 THE BATHER

capture a sense of
ambiguity or uncertainty
that is typical of
the modern experience.

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 “Painting from
nature is not
copying the
object,” he
wrote, “it is
realizing
one’s
sensations.”

STILL LIFE WITH APPLES

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 Entrance
Gate to
Paris
Subway
(Métropolitai
n) Station,
Paris,
France

help make this new mode of transportation

appealing to Parisians.

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 THE
TOWER
Eiffel Tower
was for
Delaunay
a symbol of
both modern
ityand
masculinity

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 PORT-EN-BESSIN, ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOR
- Seurat’s technique is known as pointillism

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 THE STARRY NIGHT
- more about imagination than reality

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 MELANCHOLY III(MELANKOLI III)

working in an expressive mode and capturing emotion was

more important than making realistic images of the world.

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 Rather than
just seeking to
capture the
sitter’s
physical
appearance,
artists like
Édouard
Vuillard and
Vincent van
Gogh sought
to represent
his or her
character,
disposition,
and even inner
Portrait of Joseph Roulin psyche.

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 Artists,
Movements and
Styles in Modern
Art (1870-1930)
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 Impressionism
(c.1870-1890)

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 Post Impressionism
(c.1885-1905)

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 Fauvism
(1905-1910)

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 German Expressionism
(1905-1925)

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 Abstract Art
(c.1907 onwards)

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 Cubism
(1907-1915)

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 Futurism
(1909-1914)

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 Suprematism
(c.1915-1925)

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 Constructivism
(c.1913-1930)

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