Modern Art

Francisca L. Roberts G-10

Impressionism (Impression,Sunrise)
Impressionism
• Claude Monet
-was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a
key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he
perceived it.

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively

small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on
accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the
effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of
movement as a crucial
Impressionism
• Monet influenced the development of impressionism. He painted everyday
objects. Pissaro and Sisley painted the French countryside and river scenes.
Degas enjoyed painting ballet dancers and horse races.

• Impressionism was a radical art movement that began in the late 1800s,
centered primarily around Parisian painters. Impressionists rebelled against
classical subject matter and embraced modernity, desiring to create works
that reflected the world in which they lived.
Post-Impressionism(The Basket of Apples)
Post-Impressionism(Stiil Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers)
Post-Impressionism
• Paul Cézanne
- was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the
foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic
endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

• Vincent van Gogh

-was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the
most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
Post-Impressionism
• Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations:
they continued using vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-
life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms,
distort form for expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary colour.

• Breaking away from the naturalism of Impressionism and focusing their art
upon the subjective vision of the artists, rather than following the traditional
role of the art as a window onto the world, artists of the Post-Impressionism
movement focused on the emotional, structural, symbolic, and spiritual
elements that they felt was lacking from Impressionism.
Post-Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism is a term used to describe the reaction in the 1880s
against Impressionism. ... The Post-Impressionists rejected Impressionism's
concern with the spontaneous and naturalistic rendering of light and color.
Instead they favored an emphasis on more symbolic content, formal order
and structure.
Expressionism (The Scream)
Expressionism
• Edvard Munch
-was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one
of the iconic images of world art.

• Expressionism was a German movement that found its most congenial media
in painting and drama.Artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not
objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses.
Expressionism
• Expressionism in literature arose as a reaction against materialism,
complacent bourgeois prosperity, rapid mechanization and urbanization, and
the domination of the family within pre-World War I European society. It was
the dominant literary movement in Germany during and immediately after
World War I.

• Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting,

originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its
typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective,
distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
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