PART II –

Modern Art
Surrealism, Abstract
Expressionism, Pop Art,
Op Art, Happenings, and
Mod
 What is Surrealism?

A movement that grew out of dada was surrealism. Fascinated by

the studies of renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud on the inner
working of the mind, the surrealist appreciated the mysteries of dreams
and the unconscious and the appeal of the bizarre and the strange. For
them, the world is made of pure imagination and personal expression.
 Surrealism’s Characteristics and
Formulators

Giorgio de Chirico created

one of the first of those invested
worlds of the surrealists and one
of the most enduring. The world
he created is at once desolate
and empty but filled with
suggestions, deserted yell full of
mysterious presence.

The Nostalgia by Giorgio

de Chirico, 1911
 AUTOMATISM

The creation of art without

conscious control as in intuition
and dream experience. Salvador
Dali’s Soft Construction with
Boiled Beans: Premonition of a
Civil War is a curious kind of
dream or nightmare picture.

Soft Construction with Boiled

Beans by Salvador Dali, 1936
 Un Chien Andalou by
The Cabinet of Dr. Salvador Dali, 1929
Calligari by Robert Wiene,
1919

Object (Luncheon in Fur)

by Meret Oppenheim,
1936

Gift by Man Ray, 1958

Film is also an ideal medium
for surrealism.
 Famous works of Filipino artists

He was the first Filipino to

study heraldry and was a
member of the International
Institute of Genealogy and
Heraldry in Madrid.

Galo Ocampo
Nuclear Ecce Homo, 1931 1913 - 1985
 Blooming, 1949

• a self-taught painter, was a leading

member of the pre-war Thirteen Hernando Ocampo
Moderns, the group that charted the 1911 - 1978
course of modern art in the
Philippines. 
What is Abstract Expressionism?
• Produced paintings that are abstract but
expressed the artist’s state of mind.
• To convey a rough spontaneity and great
energy.
• Also called “Action painting”
 • He was an American painter and a
major figure in the abstract
expressionist movement.
• He was well known for his unique
style of drip painting.

Jackson Pollock
1912 - 1956
Pollock in Action
Shimmering Substance, 1946
 • A Dutch-born painter and decorator
who went to New York and became
one of the most consistent longest
lived abstract expressionist.
• He developed a style where he
employed fierce and slashing
brushstrokes.
Willem de Kooning
1904 - 1997

Woman 1, 1952 Police Gazette,

1955
 • Leading abstract
expressionist
• Painted in manner
that was typical of
his time: gestural,
personal,
Chief, 1950 spontaneous and full
of emotions.

Franz Kline
Mahoning, 1956 1910 - 1962
Philippine representative artists of
abstract expressionism
-A National artist of the
Philippines.
-He embraced the value of
dynamics spontaneity and
quick gesture in painting.
NAIAD 64, 1964

Jose Joya
1931 - 1995
Granadian Arabesque,
1958
 • He was among the first generation of
abstractionists in the country.
• He was known for gestural as well as linear
compositions rendered in oil and, later, acrylic
paint. 

Lee Aguinaldo
1933 - 2007 Homage to
Pollock, 1953

Explosion No. 147,

1957

Monday, 1959
 What is Pop Art?
• A style grounded in consumer
culture, the mass media and popular
culture.
• Advertising, comic books and
mundane cultural objects.
• A prominent figure in pop art.
• His background as a commercial
artist and illustrator explains why
his works appear the way they do.

Green Coca-Cola
Bottles, 1962

Andy Warhol
1933 - 2007
Shots Marilyn, 1964

Velvet Underground
and Nico, 1967
 • Well known artist in comic
book.
• He was remarkably faithful
to the original comic strip
images that he paint.

Girl Drowning, 1963

Roy Lichtenstein
Crying Girl, 1963
1923 - 1997

Hopeless, 1963
In the Car, 1963
Painting Plut by Illustration by
JP Cuison Limbo
 What is Op Art?
• Physical sensation.
• Artists create lines, pattern, and designs that
sharpens the viewer eye perception.

Making Waves by
Bridget Riley, 1963
 When and how did op art begin?

• He’s one of the key figures in the

creation of op art.
• His lifelong fascination with line,
pattern, along with his experiments on
creating illusion of movement in his
paintings became a significant
influence on younger artists of the
time.
Victor Vasarely
1906 - 1997
 Characteristics of op art
• Exist to fool the eye.
• It is almost without exception, eliminated realistic subject matter.
The elements-color, line, and shape-are carefully chosen to achieve
maximum effect.
• The more important techniques used in op art are perspective and
careful juxtaposition of color, like black-white.

Zebra by Victor Vasarely,

1937 Relativity by
M.C., 1953
Hesitate byVictor Cataract by Bridget
Vasarely, 1964 Riley, 1967
 HAPPENINGS
• A performance at the Reuben Gallery
in New York City by the artist Allan
Kaprow titled 18 happenings in 6 parts
paved the way for prominence of
performance art.
 PERFORMANCE ART

• Artist began to create an art of staged

events of performances involving
artist talking, singing, or dancing.
 ART MOB

• A group of people who assemble,

perform for a brief time, and then
quickly disperse, often for the
purposes of entertainment and artistic
expression.
Happening
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