MODERN ART

1st Quarter
IMPRESSIONISM
-Art movement emerged in the
second half of the 19th century
among group of Paris-based
artist.

-The name impressionism was

coined from the title of a work
by French painter Claude Monet,
Impression, Sunrise.
 Distinct Characteristics
1. COLOR AND LIGHT
-Short broken strokes
-Pure unmixed colors side by side
-Freely brushed colors (convey
visual effects)

2. EVERYDAY SUBJECTS
-Scenes of life
-Household objects
-Landscapes and seascapes
-Houses, cafes and buildings
Distinct Characteristics
4. PAINTING OUTDOORS
- The impressionists found that
they could best capture the ever-
changing effects of light on color
by painting outdoors in natural
light.

5. OPEN COMPOSITION
-Impressionist painting also
moved away from the formal,
structured approach to placing
and positioning their subjects.
 PAINTERS
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
-He was prominent and considered
the most influential in the movement.
-He was best known for landscape
painting.

AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)

-One of the central figures of
impressionist movement.
-He applied more disciplined, formal
technique to portraits of actual
people and figure paintings.
 PAINTERS
EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883)
-First artist to depict modern-life
subjects.
-He was a key figure in the transition
from realism to impressionism.
POST- IMPRESSIONISM
-Continued using the basic
qualities of impressionism.

-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.
 PAINTERS
PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)
-His works exemplified the transition
from late 19th century impressionism
to the new radically different world of
art in the 20th century-paving the way
for the next revolutionary art
movement known as expressionism.

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)

-His works were remarkable for their
strong, heavy brush strokes, intense
emotions and colors that appeared
almost pulsate with energy.
 EXPRESSIONISM
-Created works with more
emotional force, rather than with
realistic and natural images.
-They distorted outines,, applied
strong colors and exaggerated
forms.

- They work with their

imagination and feelings rather
than with what their eyes saw in
physical world.
Various styles that
arose within the
expressionist art
movements are:
-Neoprimitivism
-Fauvism
-Dadaism
-Surrealism
-Social Realism
 NEOPRIMITIVISM
-Art style that incorporated the
elements from the native arts of
the South Sea Islanders and
wood carvings of African tribes
that surged the popularity that
time.

-Used oval faces and elongated

shapes in paintings and
sculptures.
 FAUVISM
-A style that used bold, vibrant
colors and visual distortions.
 DADAISM
-Characterized by dream fantasies,
memory images, tricks and
surprises.

-Although the works appeared

playful, the movement arose from
the pain that the group of European
artists felt after the suffering
brought by World War I.
 SURREALISM
-Was a style that depicted an illogical,
subconscious dream world that
seemed to exist beyond logical,
conscious, physical one.

-Expressing a departure from the

reality- as though the artist was
dreaming, seeing illusions or
experiencing an altered mental state.
 SOCIAL REALISM
-Expressed the artist’s role in social
reform.

-They used their works to protest

against the injustices, inequalities,
immortality and ugliness of human
condition.
 ABSTRACTIONISM
-While expressionism is emotional,
abstractionism was logical and
rational. It involved analyzing,
detaching, selecting and simplifying.
 Grouped under
abstractionism
are the following
art styles:
-Cubism
-Futurism
-Mechanical Style
-Nonobjectivism
 CUBISM
-Derived its name from the cube,
a three-dimensional geometric
figure composed of strictly
measured lines, planes and angles.

-A play of planes and angles on a

flat surface.
 FUTURISM
-Created art for a fast-paced,
machine-propelled age.

-They admired the motion, force,

speed and strength of mechanical
forms.
 MECHANICAL STYLE
-In this style, basic forms such as
planes, cones, spheres and
cylinders all fit together precisely
and neatly in their appointed
places.
 NONOBJECTIVISM
-From the very term “non-object”,
works in this style did not make
use of figures or even
representations of figures.
 ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
-The young artists in this
movement succeeded in creating
their own synthesis of Europe’s
cubist and surrealist styles.

FORMS OF ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM:

-Action Painting
-Color Field Painting
 ACTION PAINTING

-One form of this art style was

seen in the works of Jackson
Pollock known to be “Action
Painting”.

-He worked on a huge canvases

spread on the floor, splattering,
squirting an dribbling paint no
preplanned pattern or design in
mind.
 COLOR FIELD PAINTING

-Used different color saturations

(purity, vividness, intensity) to
create their desired effects.

- One of the color field painter is

Mark Rothko.
 POP ART
-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.

-The term pop came from the

word “popular”.
 OP ART
-Optical or op art is another
experiment in visual experience.

-Lines and spaces were precisely

planned and positioned to give
illusion of movement.
 CONCEPTUAL ART
- Much of the artist’s time and
effort goes into the concept or
idea behind the work.
CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS:
Installation Art and Performance Art

Installation Art
- Uses sculptural materials and
other media to modify the way the
viewer experiences a particular
space.

- It can be constructed or
positioned in everyday public or
private spaces, both indoor or
outdoor.
Performance Art

-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 be any situation that involves

four basic elements:
-time
-space
-the performer’s body
-a relationship between a
performer and audience