MODERN ART
IMPRESSIONISM EXPRESSIONISM CUBISM DADAISM
OBJECTIVES
Identify and define art movements of the twentieth
century such as impressionism, expressionism, cubism
and dadaism
Determine the distinct features of each
impressionism, expressionism, cubism and dadaism
Recognize the iconic artists of impressionism,
expressionism, cubism and dadaism
Appreciate the uniqueness of impressionism,
expressionism, cubism and dadaism
➢ Asynchronous Task (Tuesday)
Using Venn Diagram, write the relevant
information highlighting the differences and
similarities between impressionism and
expressionism.
➢ Performance Task (Tuesday)
Paper Collage with accompanying write-up.
Kindly refer to your book “The 21st Century
MAPEH in Action pages. 110 – 111”.
Claude Monet.
Impression,
Sunrise. 1872.
Claude Monet. Houses
of Parliament, London,
with Sun Breaking
Through the Fog. 1904.
Claude Monet.
Gare Saint
Lazare. 1877
Berthe Morisot.
The Bath (Girl
Arranging her
Hair). 1885-86.
Edgar Degas.
The Glass of
Absinthe.
1876.
Claude Monet.
Over a Pond of
Water Lilies. 1899
Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. The
Dance at Le
Moulin de la
Galette. 1876
Juan Luna.
MI HIJO ANDRES.
1889
Juan. Luna.
TAMPUHAN,
1895
The Parisian
Life, 1892,
Juan Luna
Fernando Amorsolo.
Planting Rice.
1951
Market Scene,
1949
Lavanderas,
1952
EXPRESSIONISM
➢ Refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to
make it expressive of the artist’s inner feelings or ideas
BACKGROUND
At the beginning of 20th century, some artists who have been
connected with Impressionism began to find fault with it.
They felt that this style sacrificed too much by trying to capture the
momentary effects of sunlight on forms and colors.
They felt that art should present a more personal, expressive view of
life.
In Germany, the view was eagerly accepted by several group of artists
FAMOUS PROPONENTS
OF EXPRESSIONISM
EDVARD MUNCH
• Best-known forerunner of Expressionism
• His early life was tortured by sickness,
death, insanity, unhappy love affairs, and
guilt – a classic way to understand his
paintings.
• In his painting The Scream, Munch is not
simply trying to paint some figures in a
landscape. His painting expresses fear. In
his painting something terrible must have
happened, but we do not know what it
was.
• Munch was one of several Expressionists
who felt strongly that paintings could
show people worrying and suffering, as
well as show the beautiful things in life.
Edvard Munch.
The Scream.
1892
WASSILY KANDINSKY
• Started out as a realistic painter but was
among the first to make truly abstract art
in which color and form take on an
expressive life.
• Believed that shape, line and color have
emotional properties capable of conveying
heightened feelings.
➢ RED – was described as giving “the
impression of a strong drum beat”
➢ GREEN – “shrill sound of violin”
➢ YELLOW – possesses “a capacity to
attain heights”
➢ HORIZONTAL LINES – “cold and flat”
➢ VERTICALS – “warm and strong”
➢ CURVED LINES – “mature”
➢ ANGULAR LINES – “youthful”
Wassily Kandinsky.
Black Frame.
1922
INFLUENCE OF
EXPRESSIONISM ON
PHILIPPINE ART
VICTORIO EDADES
• Coming back from studying abroad in
1928, he realized that the modernist’s
experimentation and new perspective
at seeing the world was what
Philippine art needed.
• In a homecoming exhibit, he mounted
The Builders as his main feature to a
“shocked” audience.
• It was the Filipino public’s
introduction to modern art.
• The Builders was special because it
showed Edade’s Modernist tendency
to experiment on other styles.
• Coming back from studying abroad in 1928, he realized
that the modernist’s experimentation and new
perspective at seeing the world was what Philippine art
needed.
• In a homecoming exhibit, he mounted The Builders as his
main feature to a “shocked” audience.
• It was the Filipino public’s introduction to modern art.
• The Builders was special because it showed Edade’s
Modernist tendency to experiment on other styles.
The Builders, 1928
CUBISM
The Cubists began to find the Impressionists’ style too
messy.
They decided to paint objects as firm, solid forms, at
same time as painting light and color.
Described as reducing everything to ‘geometric outlines,
to cubes.’
By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas –
or planes – the artists aimed to show different viewpoints
at the same time and within the same space and so
suggest their three dimensional form.
Pablo Picasso was the first to use unrealistic style
He was the leader of a new movement in art,
called Cubism.
He painted the The Weeping Woman in 1937 and
used powerful colors to depict the sadness of the
crying woman. Sometimes when people are very
upset, we say that they “go to pieces” or are
“broken” by their sadness. In the artwork,
Picasso’s woman looks as if she really is broken
into pieces.
Pablo Picasso.
The Weeping
Woman. 1937.
FOUNDERS AND
CHARACTERISTICS OF CUBISM
The two founder of Cubism, Pablo Picasso and George
Braque, started with the idea that all shapes in nature
are based on geometric shapes – the sphere, the cone and
the cylinder.
For the first time, a shift in focus from subject matter to
the abstract properties of line, shape and composition
became the new way of seeing the world for artists.
Cubists fractured the laws of perspective, breaking up
space into jagged planes without a sense of logic – even
presenting the eye of one figure from a frontal view and
face in profile.
PABLO GEORGE
PICASSO BRAQUE
Pablo Picasso.
Portrait of Dora Maar.
1937.
Inthe case of Cubist George Braque,
he reduced architecture to its
geometric forms and reassemble them
as faceted planes that are comparable
to little cubes.
George Braque.
Houses at l’Estaque.
1908.
In sculpture, the idea was to create an
object that could be assembled from
multiple views – from the top, the side, and
the front.
David Smith.
Zig IV.
1961.
INFLUENCE OF CUBISM AND
SOME OF THE FAMOUS FILIPINO
ARTISTS
The Cubist aspect of Vicente Manansala and Cesar Legaspi
are unlike that of European Cubist masters because both
stayed close to the figures that they simplified to their basic
geometric forms.
Manansala hardly tore the image into pieces like many
jigsaw fragments the way Picasso and Braque did in their
works.
He has his own “easy to understand” kind of Cubism –
“transparent” Cubism – which he claims he developed all by
himself.
This approach shows images, say, birds in flight, as
transparencies or “glazes” that interlock and overlap.
CESAR VICENTE
LEGASPI MANANSALA
Vicente Manansala.
Birds of Paradise.
1954.
DADAISM
Founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, one group of
artists expressed their disillusionment in their art.
Known as Dada, the movement got its name from a
nonsense word.
Throughout its brief lifespan of 6 years, Dada seemed
nonsensical, but it had a no-nonsense aim.
It protested the madness of World War I. In this first
global war, millions of people either suffered or died.
Dadaist artists felt they could no longer trust reason and
society. The alternative was to overthrow all authority,
tradition and cultivate absurdity.
Marcel Duchamp.
L.H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa
with Mustache).
1919.
Dada was an international attitude that
spread from Zurich to the rest of the world.
Its main strategy had a more serious
purpose than merely to denounce and
shock. They hoped to awaken the creative
imagination that the war so utterly
degraded if not entirely extinguished.
DADA MOVEMENT’S MOST
FAMOUS INVENTOR?
MARCEL DUCHAMP
• The most well-known Dadaist,
whose earliest work was a
ready-made bicycle wheel
mounted on a kitchen stool.
His most outrageous work was the Fountain
(1917), an industrial porcelain urinal, set
sideways and signed ‘R. Mutt,’ Duchamp’s
pseudonym.
Fountain was pure provocation. The exhibition
organizers had stated that all entries would be
accepted, and Duchamp wanted to see if they
really meant it. When it was rejected for its
outrageousness, Duchamp defended it. He said
that he took an ordinary object, placed it so that
its useful significance disappeared, to create new
thought for that object.
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY!
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