WEEK 13

ONLINE LECTURE
mod·ern
/ˈmädərn/
relating to the present or
recent times as opposed to the
remote past.

art
/ärt/
the expression or application
of human creative skill and
imagination, typically in a
visual form.
Modern art comprises creative work created during the era
roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and specifies the forms
and concepts of art established during that time period. The
term is most usually associated with art in which traditional
norms are abandoned in favor of experimentation.
Modern painters experimented with new ways of seeing as well
as new ideas about material nature and the roles of art. Many
works of contemporary art tend to move away from narrative,
which was characteristic of past art forms, and toward
abstraction. More recent creative work is referred to it as
contemporary art or postmodern art.
Wheatfields With Crows, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh
Galatea de las esferas, 1952 by Salvador Dali
con·tem·po·rar·y
/kənˈtempəˌrerē/
- living or occurring at the same time.
- belonging to or occurring in the
present.

Art
/ärt/
the expression or application of human
creative skill and imagination,
typically in a visual form.
"Pure Pop (Mona Lisa)" by Orlando Quevedo
Contemporary art is artwork made by living artists now. As a result, it
depicts the diverse, global, and ever-changing issues that shape our
world.

Many contemporary artists utilize their work to explore personal or

cultural identity, critique societal and institutional systems, or even
re-define art. They typically generate difficult or thought-provoking
subjects without providing clear answers in the process.

Curiosity, an open mind, and a desire to discuss and debate are the best
tools for approaching a piece of modern art.
Impressionism was the foundation of
contemporary art. It all began in Paris as
a reaction to a rather formal and rigorous
style of painting practiced in studios
and dictated by conventional
organizations such as the Academie des
Beaux-Arts.
Unlike many members of other art
movements, Post-Impressionists primarily
composed their works independently of
others, allowing them to experiment in a
variety of directions, ranging from
intensified Impressionism, as typified by
van Gogh, to pointillism, as seen in
Seurat's most famous work Sunday
Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
(1884–86).
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–86 by Georges Seurat
• To begin, Modern and Contemporary Art are two
distinct periods of art.

• Contemporary Art emphasizes innovation and

freedom more than Modern Art.

• Contemporary art focuses on societal influence,

with society as the major emphasis, whereas Modern
art is an expression of personality.

• Another difference is that most Modern Art was

made on canvas, but Contemporary Art may be found
in a wider range of materials, including object
design, tech-enabled artwork, and graphical arts.
• Artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective
reality but rather the subjective emotion and responses that
objects and events arouse within a person.

• Expressionism as a distinct style or movement refers to

a number of German artist, as well as Austrian, French,
and Russian ones, who became active in the years before
World War I and remained so throughout much of the
interwar period.
• Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that
involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping
brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint
onto the canvas.
• Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that
The term typically describes large-scale canvases
dominated by flat expanses of color and having a
minimum of surface detail. Color-field paintings have a
unified single-image field and differ qualitatively
from the gestural, expressive brushwork.
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• Op art, also called optical art, branch of mid-20th-century
geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion.

• Achieved through the systematic and precise

manipulation of shapes and colors. The effects of
optical art can be based either on perspective illusion
or on chromatic tension; in painting, the dominant
medium of Op art, the surface tension is usually
maximized to the point at which an actual pulsation or
flickering is perceived by the human eye.
OPTICAL ART
➢ is a form of abstract art (specifically non-
objective art) which relies on optical
illusions in order to fool the eye of the
viewer.
➢ It is also called optical art or retinal art.

➢ It relates to geometric designs that create

feelings of movement or vibration.
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• Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer
or that depends on motion for its effect.

• "Kinetic art" as a moniker developed from a number of sources.

• KINETIC SCULPTURE, sculpture in which movement (as of a

motor-driven part or a changing electronic image) is a
basic element. In the 20th century the use of actual
movement, kineticism, became an important aspect of
sculpture.
 KINETIC ART
➢ is art from any medium that contains
movement perceivable by the viewer
or depends on motion for its effect
➢ kinetic art is a term that today most

often refers to three-dimensional

sculptures and figures such as mobiles
that move naturally or are machine
operated
➢ early 1950’s onward
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• Minimal art, also called ABC art, is the culmination of
reductionist tendencies in modern art.

• MINIMAL SCULPTURE, is composed of extremely simple,

monumental geometric forms made of fiberglass, plastic,
sheet metal, or aluminum, either left raw or solidly
painted with bright industrial colors. Like the
painters, Minimalist sculptors attempted to make their
works totally objective, unexpressive, and non-
referential.
MINIMALISM
➢ also sometimes referred to
as ABC art, Cool art,
Literalist art, Object art,
and Primary Structure art
➢ Extreme simplicity

➢ Repetition of shapes

➢ Geometric forms

➢ Not expressive
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• Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in
the 1960s in America and Britain. It is an art that is based on popular
culture and mass media. Characterized by bold, simple, everyday imagery,
and vibrant block colors.

• The Pop Art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and
"low" culture. By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture
objects and media stars.
• Postmodernism refers to a reaction against modernism. It is less a
cohesive movement than an approach and attitude toward art, culture,
and society.

• Postmodern art can be also characterized by a deliberate use of earlier

styles and conventions, and an eclectic mixing of different artistic and
popular styles and mediums.

• A late 21st and 20th century art style.

• Neo-Pop, or Post-Pop, is a broad term that refers to a style that has been
influenced by Pop Art. The first wave of Neo-Pop Art emerged in the
1980’s as a reaction to the Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1970’s.

• The Neo-Pop artists used the iconography of Pop Art to their own ends,
creating commentary that mimics Pop Art, but also incorporating
contemporary “kitsch” imagery and references to political and social
issues that did not exist in the 60’s.
• The name Photorealism (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was
coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on
photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to
be replicated with precision and accuracy.

• The movement came about within the same period and context as
Conceptual Art, Pop Art, and Minimalism and expressed a strong interest
in realism in art, over that of idealism and abstraction.
PHOTOREALISM
➢ Most photorealist painters work
directly from photographs or
digital computer images -
either by using traditional grid
techniques, or by projecting
colour slide imagery onto the
canvas.
➢ The aim is to recreate the
same sharpness of detail
throughout the painting.
➢ John Cyril Dojaylo
➢ Roxas, Capiz
➢ Romuel Dojaylo
➢ Roxas, Capiz
• Conceptual art is a movement that prizes ideas over the formal or
visual components of art works.

• Conceptualism took myriad forms, such as performances, happenings,

and ephemera. From the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s Conceptual
artists produced works and writings that completely rejected
standard ideas of art.
 CONCEPTUALISM
⬗ gives priority to an idea
presented by visual means that
are themselves secondary to
the idea.
⬗ can deliver a powerful message,
and thus has served as a vehicle
for socio-political comment, as
well as a broad challenge to the ⬗ Fountain by Marcel
Duchamp, Society of
tradition of a 'work of art' Independent Artists’ salon
being a crafted unique object. in New York
• Is art is presented "live," usually by the artist but sometimes with
collaborators or performers.

• artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist

or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous
or scripted.
PERFORMANCE ART
➢ Artworks that are created through actions
performed by the artist or other
participants, which may be live or
recorded, spontaneous or scripted
Rhythm 0, 1974 by Marina Abramovic
Cutpiece, 1964 by Yoko Ono
Installation art is one of the most
impactful and enchanting art genres in
existence. Compared to conventional
art forms such as painting and
sculpture, Installation art is intended
to fill entire rooms or even entire
exhibition space (Lesso, 2020).
 INSTALLATION ART
➢ configuration or
"installation" of objects in a
space, such as a room or
warehouse.
➢ Kind of an immersive work
where the environment or
the space in which the
viewer steps into or
interacts with is
transformed or altered.
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Earth art, also known as Land art or
Earthworks, is primarily an American
movement that produces site-specific
structures, art forms, and sculptures
using the natural landscape. (The Art
Story, 2018)
Broken circle;Spiral hill, 1971 by Robert Smithson
California Dreamin, 1972-76 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
 MURALS

INSTALLATION
ART

Street art is art that is done in

public surfaces such as building STICKER
exteriors, highway overpasses, and
sidewalks. Street art is more common
in cities. - Street art is similar to
graffiti in that it is done in public
spaces and is usually unauthorized,
but it encompasses a broader range of
media and is more closely associated
with graphic design. (Tate, 2018)
STENCIL IMAGE
Untitled (skull),1981 by Jean Michel Basquiat
Houston Bowery Wall, 1982 by Keith Haring