ABSTRACT ABSTRACT NON-OBJECTIVE

OR NON- ⊙ Based on a subject ⊙ No subject, object,

OBJECTIVE
—you can or clues of subject.
recognize objects ⊙ Based only on the
or symbols. Elements &
Principles of Art.
 ⊙ Dadaism or Dada(1916-1923) is a post-
World War I cultural movement in visual
DADAISM
art as well as literature (mainly poetry),
theatre and graphic design.
⊙ A protest against the barbarism of the
War and what Dadaists believed was an
oppressive intellectual rigidity in both
art and everyday society; its works were
characterized by a deliberate
irrationality and the rejection of the
prevailing standards of art.
 ⊙ The Dadaists first met at a café Cabaret
HOW WAS Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916.
DADA
CREATED?
⊙ Their leader was named Tristan Tzara.
He was a poet from Romania. His co-
founder was Richard Huelsenbeck.
⊙ Their motto was "Destruction is also
creation" because Dada had no rules.
Dada had no values. Dada shocked
people.
 ⊙ “The idea is more important than the
DADAISM
work itself”
PHILOSOPHY ⊙ “Art can be made of anything”
 ⊙ In general, Dada sought to undermine all
CHARACTERI art, viewing it as part of cultural norms
STIC OF and sensibilities that established
DADAISM
oppressive aesthetic standards and
emphasized the "reason" and "order"
that had led to the self-annihilating
destruction of World War I.
DADAISM

L.H.O.O.Q – Marcel Duchamp 1919

 ⊙ Surrealism was launched in Paris in
1924 by French poet André Breton with
SURREALISM publication of his Manifesto of
Surrealism. Breton was strongly
influenced by the theories of Sigmund
Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
⊙ The Dadaists discovered the
unconscious mind and the dream as
sources of a new reality and artistic
inspiration.
 ⊙ Surrealists believed that automatism
(automatic writing and drawing) was a
SURREALISM better way to tackle societal change than
the Dada movements attack on
prevailing values.
⊙ The element of chance was important to
Surrealist artists.
SURREALISM

The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937,

Salvador Dali
 ⊙ Abstract Expressionism is a painting
ABSTRACT
movement in which artists typically
EXPRESSIONISM applied paint rapidly, and with force to
their huge canvases in an effort to show
feelings and emotions
⊙ The main result of the new American
fascination with Surrealism was the
emergence of Abstract Expressionism.
⊙ Produced in New York roughly between
1940-1960.
 ⊙ Made New York the center of the art
ABSTRACT
world, and was often called the “New
EXPRESSIONISM York School”.
⊙ Arshile Gorky was the artist to put this
movement into motion, because his art
ideals were obtained from Surrealism,
Picasso, and Miro.
 ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM

Shimmering Substance, 1946

Jackson Pollock
 Op Art
⊙ Stands for “Optical Art”: art that creates
OPTICAL ART
an optical illusion
⊙ Optical Illusion: an image that tricks
your eyes into seeing something that is
not there.
⊙ First started, and most popular, in the
1960s
 What is Op Art all about?
⊙ Optical Illusions
⊙ Eye-brain connection
OPTICAL ART
⊙ Elements of art:
- Line
- Shape
- Space
⊙ Principles of design:
- Pattern
- Movement
OPTICAL ART

Blaze 3, 1963
Bridget Riley
 ⊙ Pop Art was an art movement in the late
1950s and 1960s that reflected everyday
POP ART life and common objects. Pop artists
blurred the line between fine art and
commercial art .
⊙ The Pop artists moved away from
Abstract Expressionism which was the
“in” style of art in the 50s.
 Pop Artists used common images from
everyday culture as their sources including:
ART POP
⊙ Advertisements
⊙ Consumer goods
⊙ Celebrities
⊙ Photographs
⊙ Comic Strips
 Pop Artists reflected 60’s culture by using
new materials in their artworks including:
POP ART
⊙ Acrylic Paints
⊙ Plastic
⊙ Photographs
⊙ Fluorescent and Metallic colors
POP ART

Marilyn Monroe, 1967

Andy Warhol
 ⊙ Minimalism describes movements in
carious forms of art and design,
MINIMALISM especially visual art and music, where
the work is stripped down to its most
fundamental form.
⊙ Most strongly with American visual arts
in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
 FEATURES
⊙ Geometric
⊙ Often cubic forms purged of much
metaphor
MINIMALISM
⊙ Equality of parts
⊙ Repetition
⊙ Neutral surfaces
⊙ Solid planes of color
⊙ Normally precise
⊙ Hard-edged
⊙ Thrives on simplicity in both content
and form
MINIMALISM

Stack Without Title, 1969

Donald Judd
 ⊙ Art that is intended to convey an idea or
CONCEPTUAL
concept to the perceiver and need not
ART involve the creation or appreciation of a
traditional art object such as a painting
or sculpture.
 ⊙ Ideas are more important then the
finished work
CONCEPTUAL ⊙ Art of ideas
ART
⊙ Uses images and objects to make the
viewer think, and to think particularly
about what art is and what it means
⊙ Rejected the idea of “art should be
beautiful”
⊙ Rejects conventional painting and
sculpture
 When was the movement taking place?
CONCEPTUAL ⊙ middle 1960s and the early 1970s
ART What led up to this movement? Who
influenced it?
⊙ Influenced by Marcel Duchamp with his
ready mades
⊙ Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni “what is
art?”
 Was it a reaction against anything?
CONCEPTUAL ⊙ Reaction against the increasingly
ART commercialized art world
⊙ No traditional art objects
CONCEPTUAL
ART
 ⊙ Photorealism is an art movement that
involves replicating the original photo
PHOTOREALISM image into a painting or a sculpture.
⊙ It derived from minimalism because it
challenged peoples art paradigms and it
also focused on American consumerism
⊙ Photorealism originated in the United
States in the 1960’s
 ⊙ Photorealist shared with minimalist a
prediction to see art making as a
PHOTOREALISM decision making process.
⊙ Clearly deriving from Pop Art, but
without satirical commentary.
PHOTOREALISM

Bumper Section XIII 1970

Don Eddy
 ⊙ Installation art is the use of sculptural
INSTALLATION
materials and other interesting material
ART to transform a space or, arguably, an
area. Installation art is not necessarily
confined to gallery spaces and can be
any material intervention in everyday
public or private spaces. Installation art
incorporates almost any media to create
an experience in a particular
environment.
 ⊙ Land art, Earthworks, or Earth art is an
INSTALLATION
art movement which emerged in the
ART United States in the late 1960s and early
1970s, in which landscape and the work
of art are inextricably linked. Sculptures
are not placed in the landscape, rather
the landscape is the very means of their
creation.
INSTALLATION
ART
 ⊙ Body Art appears from influence of the
hippie movement (sexual freedom and
pacifism), from the counter-culture
INSTALLATION movement and from the youth
ART
explosion.
Could be:
⊙ Hairstyles
⊙ Nail Art
⊙ Make up
⊙ Tattoos
⊙ Piercings
INSTALLATION
ART
 ⊙ Performance Art is an art in which the
INSTALLATION
medium is the artist's own body and the
ART artwork takes the form of actions
performed by the artist.
⊙ Art that could not be bought, sold or
traded as a commodity.
 Characteristics
INSTALLATION ⊙ Performance Art is a legitimate artistic
ART movement.
⊙ Performance Art is live.
⊙ Performance Art has no rules or
guidelines. It is art because the artist
says it is art. It is experimental.
⊙ Performance Art is not for sale. (It may,
however, sell admission tickets and film
rights.)
 ⊙ Performance Art may be comprised of
INTALLATION
painting, sculpture, dialogue, poetry,
ART music, dance, film footage, laser lights,
animals, fire, etc.
⊙ Performance Art may be entertaining,
amusing, shocking or horrifying. It is
meant to be memorable