“Idea of Progress”

Modernity, Modernism & Post Modernism

Anand Kumar Gadapa

 DORIC

IONIC

CORINTHIAN

PARTHENON
Greek

Roman
Medieval period
 Masaccio

Giotto
BIRTH OF VENUS-SANDRO BOTTICELLI
CREATION OF ADAM-MICHELANGELO
PIETA- MICHELANGELO
THE LAST SUPPER-LEONARDO DA VINCI
The term ‘modernism’ refers to the
radical shift in aesthetic and cultural
sensibilities evident in the art and
literature of the post-World War One
period

Rejection of Classical notion: no

perspective/flatness/experimentation
Shift in subject matter from historical to
contemporary/personal

Shift in-technique-medium-style

‘Close reading’ /Formalism/pure form/art for

art’s sake

Individuality/autonomous
Romanticism-Eugene Delacroix
Theodore Gericault The Raft of Medusa
Francesca Goya Shooting of 3 rd May
The Gleaners. Jean-François Millet. 1857
Gustave Courbet

Stone Breakers

Burial
 Edouard Manet

Olympia

Luncheon on grass
•a highly unusual approach for a painter to adopt
at the time.

•loose handling of paint (daubs of tinted colour,

visible brush strokes)

•focus on light and atmosphere within the

landscape (open air) scene

• use of abstraction evokes what the artist

sensed
or experienced while painting the scene,
Claude Monet-Sunrise Impression
Neo-Impressionism-Georges Suerat
Paul
Cezanne
Mont Sainte Victoire
Mont Sainte Victoire
 one of the finest examples Post-
Impressionism
 Exploration of the theme of the
Paul Cezanne modern
Heroic nude within a natural
setting
The series of nudes are arranged
like objects in a still life
Pointed arch formed by the
intersection of trees and the sky
departure from the Impressionist
motifs of light and natural effect
figures, akin to sculpture with
paintbrush
more concerned with the way the
forms occupied space than with
recording the real scene
destruction of regular illusionism
into increased abstraction is
considered an important precursor
The Large Bathers to Cubism.
 Pablo Picasso

inspired from a variety of sources, such

as African tribal art- Expressionism- Paul
Cézanne

The multiplicity of styles incorporated

within this work - from Iberian sculpture

The sculptural deconstruction of space

derived from Cézanne

artists' perspectives expanded with the

rise of modernism

Controversy for its depiction of a brothel

scene and for the jagged, protruding, and
abstract forms used to depict the women

It is also widely considered the artwork

that launched the Cubism movement.

An incredibly distinct achievement of the

modern era

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Paul Gauguin – Tahiti Lady

Henri Matisse-harmony in red-1908

Madame Matisse Schimt Rottluf
Van Gogh-Starry Night Munch-Scream (Cry series)
G u e r n i c a
Russolo, Carrà, Marinetti, Boccioni and Severini in front of Le Figaro, Paris
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that was
originated in Italy

 It emphasized and glorified themes such as speed, technology,

youth and violence

Objects/thematic subjects such as the car, the aeroplane and the

industrial city are generally seen

Futurism influenced art movements such as Art Deco,

Constructivism, Surrealism, Dada etc.
Umberto Boccioni- The City Rises (1910)
Giacomo Balla,1912-Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Umberto Boccioni- Duchamp
Questioning Authorship
Divorced from its utilitarian
purpose and presented in a new way
as art

Redefining what constituted a

work of art within the modern era

By using an everyday,

prefabricated object Duchamp
forced the viewer to reconsider the
definition of art and who makes that
definition.

influenced Pop art, which focused

on combining low and high art

Precursor to Conceptualism,
wherein the idea behind the artwork
is as important as the final object.

“Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp

DEA conceptual
self-critical
rethinking past
flux
questioning the ‘idea of progress’ itself

Post-Modern