Modern art
IMPRESSIONISM
-emerged in the second half of the 19th century among a group of Paris-based artist
-was coined from the title of a work by French painter CALAUDE MONET,Impression,
Soleil Levant (IMPRESSION,SUNRISE}
POPULAR ARTISTS:
CALAUDE MONET- one of the founders of the impressionist movement.
- Best known for the landscape paintings, particularly those depicting
his beloved flower gardens and water lily ponds at his home in
Germany
- Art works- ( la promenade, The Red boats Argenteuil,Bridge over a
Pond of water lilies, irisis in Monet’s Garden)
AGUSTINE RENOIR- one of the central figures of the impressionist movement
- Broke away from the impressionist movement to apply a more
disciplined, formal technique to portraits of actual people and figure
paintings
- Art works: (Dancer, A Girl with Watering Can, Mile Irene Cahen d’
Anvers, Lencheon of the Boating Party)
EDOUARD MONET- one of the first 9th century artists depicit modern-life subjects
- Was a key figure in the transition from realism to impressionism
- Art works: ( Argenteuil, Rue Mosnier Decked with Flags, café Concert,
the Bar at the Folies-Bergere
POST-IMPRESSIONISM: - expanded and experimented with these in bold new ways, like using
GEOMETRIC approach, fragmenting objects and distorting people’s faces and body parts
Two foremost post-impressionist: PAUL CEZANNE and VINCENT VAN GOGH
PAUL CEZANNE- French artist.
- Paving the way for the next revolutionary known as expressionism
- Art works: (Hortense Fiquet in a Stripped Skirt, Still life with
Compotier,harlequin, Boy in the Red Vest
VINCENT VAN GOGH- from the Netherlands.
- Striking style was to have a far-reaching influence on 20th century art
- Becoming among the most recognized in the world
- Art works: (Sheaves of Wheat in a Field, The Sower, Still Life: Vase
with Fifteen Sunflowers, Bedroom at Aries, Starry Night, Wheat Field
with Cypresses)
EXPRESSIONISM: A Bold New Movement
- More emotional force, rather than with realistic or natural images
- More imagination and feelings
STYLE OF EXPRESSIONIST ART MOVEMENT
NEOPRIMITIVISM- style that incorporate elements from the native arts of the south se
islanders and the wood carving of African tribes.
- Art works: (Head,Yellow Sweater)
FAUVISM – style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.
- Name was derived from Les Fauves (wild beast)
- HENRI MATISSE –most known artist
- Art work: (Women with Hat, Blue Window
DADAISM – style characterized by dream,fantasies,memory imagaes, and visual tricks and
surprises
- These artists rebelled against established norms and authorities, and
against the traditional styles in art
- They chose the child’s term for HOBBYHORES,DADA, to refer to their
new “NONSTYLE”
- Art works: ( Melancholy and Mystery of a street by Giorgio de
Chicago)
SURREALISM- style that depicted an illogical, subconscious dream world that seemed to exist
beyond the logical,conscious, physical one.
- Its name came from the term “super realism”
- Art work: (Persistence of Memory, I and the Village, Diana, Personages
with Star
SOCIAL REALISM- known as social realism.
- Expressed social reform.
- Artist used their works of protest the injustice, inequalities,
immorality, and ugliness of the human condition.
- Art works: Miners’ Wives by BEN SHAHN, Guernica by PABLO
PICASSO)
ABSTARCTIONISM- had the same spirit of freedom of expressionism and openness that
characterized life in the 20th century.
Style under the abstractionism:
CUBISM – its name from the cube, a three dimensional geometric figure composed of strictly
measured lines, planes, and angles.
- Most known artist: PABLO PICCASO (Spanish painter/sculptor)
- Art works: (Three Musicians, Girl Before the Mirror)
FUTURISIM – began in Italy. As the name implies, futurists created art for fast-paced, machine-
propelled age.
- Admired the motion, force, speed and strength of mechanical forms
- Art work: (Armored Train by Gino Severini)
MECHANISIM STYLE- result of the futurist movements.
- Basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinder
- Art works: (The City by Fernand Leger)
NONOBJECTIVISM- logical geometrical conclusion of abstractionism came in the style known as
non-objectivism
- Art works (New York City by Piet Mondrian
