MODERN

ARTS
GR. 10 ARTS
QUARTER 1
STYLES:
IMPRESSIONISM
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
ABSTRACTIONISM
EXPRESSIONISM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
CONTEMPORARY ART
FORM
IMPRESSIONISM
 art movement that
emerged in the second half
of the 19th century among a
group of Paris-based artists.
It had a tremendous impact and
influence on the painting styles
that followed, such as neo-
impressionism, post-
impressionism, fauvism, and
cubism—and even the artistic
styles and movements of today.
“Impression” was not intended
to be clear or precise, but more
like a fleeting fragment of reality
caught on canvas, sometimes in
mid-motion, at other times
awkwardly positioned
 The Influence of Delacroix
Delacroix was greatly admired and
emulated specifically for his use of
expressive brushstrokes, his emphasis
on movement rather than on clarity of
form, and most of all his study of the
optical effects of color.
The Barque of Dante
 Technique of Impressionism:
1. Color and Light
It used brushed colors that
conveyed more of a visual
effect than a detailed
rendering of the subject.
 2. “Everyday” Subjects
They ventured into capturing
scenes of life around them,
household objects, landscapes
and seascapes, houses, cafes,
and buildings.
They presented ordinary
people seemingly caught off-
guard doing everyday tasks, at
work or at leisure, or doing
nothing at all.
3. Painting Outdoors
The impressionists found that
they could best capture the
ever-changing effects of light
on color by painting outdoors
in natural light.
This gave their works a
freshness and immediacy that
was quite a change from the
stiffer, heavier, more planned
paintings of earlier masters.
4. Open Composition
 Impressionist painting also
moved away from the formal,
structured approach to placing
and positioning their subjects.
They experimented with
unusual visual angles, sizes of
objects that appeared out of
proportion, off-center
placement, and empty spaces
on the canvas.
5. The Influence of Photography
Photography inspired
impressionists to capture fleeting
moments of action, whether in
landscapes or in the day-to-day
lives of people.
The artists were able to offer a
subjective view of their
subjects, expressing their
personal perceptions rather than
creating exact representations.
 Impressionism Artist:
EDOUARD
MANET(1832-1883)
He was one of the first 19th
century artists to depict
modern-life subjects.
He was a key figure in the
transition from realism to
impressionism, with a number of
his works considered as marking
the birth of modern art.
EDOUAR
D MANET
(1832-
1883)
 Rue
Mosnier
decorated
with flag
Bar at the Folies Bergere
CLAUDE MONET(1840-1926)
He was one of the founders of the
impressionist movement. Monet is
best known for his landscape
paintings, particularly those depicting
his beloved flower gardens and water
lily ponds at his home in Giverny.
CLAUDE
MONET
(1840-
1926)
Irises in Montes Garden
Red Boats, Argenteuil
AUGUSTE RENOIR(1841-1919)
His early works were snapshots of real
life, full of sparkling color and light.
Renoir broke away from the
impressionist movement to apply a more
disciplined, formal technique to portraits
of actual people and figure paintings.
AUGUST
E
RENOIR
(1841-
1919)
A Girl
with a
Watering
Can
The Dancer
Post-Impressionism:
An outgrowth movement known as
post-impressionism emerged after
impressionism. European artists
continued using the basic qualities of
arts like the vivid colors, heavy brush
strokes, and true-to-life subjects.
 However, they expanded and
experimented with these in bold new
ways, like using a geometric
approach, fragmenting objects and
distorting people’s faces and body
parts, and applying colors that were
not necessarily realistic or natural.
PAUL CEZANNE (1839–1906)
He was a French artist and post-
impressionist painter. His work exemplified
the transition from late 19th-century
impressionism to a new and radically
different world of art in the 20th century—
paving the way for the next revolutionary
art movement known as expressionism.
 PAUL
CEZANN
E
(1839–
1906)
Hortense
Fiquet in a
Striped
Skirt
Still Life with Compotier
VINCENT VAN GOGH
(1853-1890)
He was a post-impressionist painter from
The Netherlands. His works were
remarkable for their strong, heavy brush
strokes, intense emotions, and colors that
appeared to almost pulsate with energy.
Van Gogh’s striking style was to
have a far-reaching influence on
20th century art, with his works
becoming among the most
recognized in the world.
VINCENT
VAN
GOGH
(1853-
1890)
Starry Night
Wheat Field with Cypresses
EXPRESSIONISM:
In the early 1900s, there arose in the
Western art world a movement that
came to be known as expressionism.
Expressionist artists created works
with more emotional force, rather
than with realistic or natural images.
To achieve this, they distorted
outlines, applied strong colors, and
exaggerated forms. They worked
more with their imagination and
feelings, rather than with what their
eyes saw in the physical world.
 Art Style of Expressionism:
1. Neoprimitivism was an art style
that incorporated elements from the
native arts of the South Sea Islanders
and the wood carvings of African
tribes which suddenly became
popular at that time.
Amadeo Modigliani
He adapted these elements
among Western Artist. He used
the oval faces and elongated
shapes of African art in both his
sculptures and paintings.
Amadeo
Modigliani
Yellow
Sweater
2. Fauvism - was a style that used
bold, vibrant colors and visual
distortions. Its name was derived
from les fauves (“wild beasts”),
referring to the group of French
expressionist painters who painted in
this style.
Henri Matisse –
was the painter
who practice most
the fauvism style
The Blue
Window
3. Dadaism - was a style
characterized by dream fantasies,
memory images, and visual tricks
and surprises. Artist chose the
child’s term for hobbyhorse, dada,
to refer to their new “non-style.”
Marc Giorgio
Chagall de Chirico
I and the
Village
4. Surrealism - was a style that
depicted an illogical, subconscious
dream world beyond the logical,
conscious, physical one. Its name
came from the term “super realism,”
with its artworks clearly expressing a
departure from reality.
In surrealism the artists were
dreaming, seeing illusions, or
experiencing an altered mental
state. Many surrealist works
depicted morbid or gloomy
subjects. Others were quite playful
and even humorous.
Salvador Dali, Paul Klee
Melancholy
and
Mystery of
the Street
5. Social Realism
The movement known as social
realism, expressed the artist’s role in
social reform. Artists used their works
to protest against the injustices,
inequalities, immorality, and ugliness
of the human condition.
In different periods of history, social
realists have addressed different
issues: war, poverty, corruption,
industrial and environmental hazards,
and more—in the hope of raising
people’s awareness and pushing
society to seek reforms.
The Miner’s Wives
ABSTRACTIONISM
It had the same spirit of freedom
of expression and openness that
characterized life in the 20th
century, but it differed from
expressionism in certain ways.
The abstractionist movement arose
from the intellectual points of view
in the 20th century. Abstractionism
was logical and rational. It involved
analyzing, detaching, selecting, and
simplifying.
Oval
Still Life
1. Cubism
The cubist style derived its name from
the cube, a three- dimensional
geometric figure composed of strictly
measured lines, planes, and angles.
Cubist artworks were, therefore, a play
of planes and angles on a flat surface.
In earlier styles, subjects were
depicted in a three-dimensional
manner, formed by light and
shadow. In contrast, the cubists
analyzed their subjects’ basic
geometrical forms, and broke them
up into a series of planes.
The Three Musicians
2. Futurism
The movement known as futurism began
in Italy in the early 1900s. As the name
implies, the futurists created art for a
fast-paced, machine-propelled age. They
admired the motion, force, speed, and
strength of mechanical forms.
Armored
Train in
Action
3. Mechanical Style
As a result of the futurist movement
the mechanical style emerged. In this
style, basic forms such as planes,
cones, spheres, and cylinders all fit
together precisely and neatly in their
appointed places.
The City
4. Non-objectivism
The logical geometrical conclusion of
abstractionism came in the style
known as non-objectivism. From the
very term “non-object,” works in this
style did not make use of figures or
even representations of figures.
The New York City
Abstract Expressionism
 World events in the mid-20th century
immensely influenced the course of human
life and, with it, the course of art history.
The Two, shifted the political, economic,
and cultural world stage away from Europe
and on to the “New World” continent,
America.
1. Action Painting
These were created through what came
to be known as “action painting.”
Pollock worked on huge canvases spread
on the floor, splattering, squirting, and
dribbling paint with (seemingly) no pre-
planned pattern or design in mind.
The total effect is one of vitality,
creativity, “energy made visible.”
Pollock’s first one-man show in New
York in 1943 focused worldwide
attention on abstract expressionism
for the first time.
Pollock’s Action Painting
2. Color Field Painting
“Color field painters” used different color
saturations (purity, vividness, intensity) to
create their desired effects. Others took
the more intimate “pictograph” approach,
filling the canvas with repeating picture
fragments or symbols
The Forgotten Dream
3. Neodadaism, Pop Art
Their works ranged from paintings, to
posters, to collages, to three-
dimensional “assemblages” and
installations. These made use of easily
recognizable objects and images from
the emerging consumer society.
Their inspirations were the
celebrities, advertisements,
billboards, and comic strips that
were becoming commonplace at
that time. Hence the term pop
(from “popular”) art emerged.
Micky Mouse
4. Conceptual Art
As the term implies, conceptual art
was that which arose in the mind of the
artist, took concrete form for a time, and
then disappeared (unless it was captured
in photo or film documentation).
Conceptualists questioned the idea
of art as objects to be bought and
sold. Instead, they brought their
artistic ideas to life temporarily,
using such unusual materials as
grease, blocks of ice, food, even just
plain dirt.
Conceptual Art
5. Op Art
Another movement that emerged in
the 1960s was optical art or “op art.”
In op art, lines, spaces, and colors
were precisely planned and
positioned to give the illusion of
movement.
As the eye moved over different
segments of the image, perfectly
stable components appeared to
shift back and forth, sometimes
faster, sometimes slower as the
brain responded to the optical data.
Rainbow, Optical Art
 Contemporary Arts Forms:
1. Installation Art
Installation art is a contemporary art form that uses
sculptural materials and other media to modify the
way the viewer experiences a particular space. Usually
life size or sometimes even larger, installation art is
not necessarily confined to gallery spaces. It can be
constructed or positioned in everyday public or private
spaces, both indoor and outdoor.
Installation Art
Performance Art
Performance arts a form of modern art
in which the actions of an individual or
a group at a particular place and in a
particular time constitute the work. It
can happen anywhere, at any time, or
for any length of time.
It can be any situation that involves four
basic elements:
1. time 2.space
3. the performer’s body, 4. a relationship
between performer and audience. In
performance art, the performer himself or
herself is the artist.
Performance
Art
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