FIRST QUARTER

MODERN ART
ART – mirrored life in the community
or society.

Technology – industrial revolution,

electronic age

Social, Political and environmental

changes – migration, wars, health and
poverty, environment changes

Artist conveyed their ideas and

feelings in BOLD and innovative ways

BIRTH OF MODERN ART – Impressionism

and Expressionism

IMPRESSIONISM
- 2nd half of 19th century (1872-mid
1880) of group of Parish-based artist. Sunrise by: Claude Monet

- Viewer’s momentary “impression” of

an image not intended to be clear and
precise more like fleeting fragment of
reality.

Characteristics:
Traditional Impressionism
Concerned with Painted freely
line, form and that conveyed
composition visual effect
that detailed
subject
Short broken
strokes
intentionally
made visible to
the viewer
Blended smoothly Pure unmixed
or shaded color side by
side
posed portraits Capturing sources
and grandiose of life around
depictions of them like
mythical, household
literary, objects,
historical or landscapes,
religious subject seascapes,
houses, cafes and
building
Still life, Presented
portraits, ordinary people
landscapes were caught off-guard
usually painted during everyday
inside the studio task at work or
at leisure or
doing nothing at
all
Stiffer, heavier Not made to look
more studied beautiful or
painting lifelike
Outdoors, natural
light
Body parts could
be distorted
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IMPRESSIONIST
1. Claude Monet –
Most prominent of the group,
most influential figure, best
known for landscapes paintings,
flower garden and water lily
pond.
2. August Renoir –
Snapshots of real life, full of
sparkling

3. Edouard Manet –
Modern life subjects, key figure
in the transition from realism
to impressionism

POST IMPRESSIONISM
- Composed of European artists
- Basic qualities of Impressionism
- Geometric approach
- Distorting people’s face
- Fragmenting objects
- Applying colors not necessarily
realistic or natural
POST IMPRESSIONIST
1. Paul Cezanne –
A French artist and painter
Radically different world of art

2. Vincent Van Gogh -

from the Netherlands
Strong heavy brush strokes, Influence of Photography
intense emotions and colors that
appeared to almost pulsate with Camera snapshots - objective and true
energy to life’s images, (cannot manipulate
color (at that time)
EXPRESSIONISM
Painters – offer subjective view of
their subjects, expressing personal
- Emotional
perceptions rather than creating exact
- Created works with more emotional
representations.
force rather than realistic image
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- Distorted outlines applied strong
colors and exaggerated forms 2. Fauvism –
STYLES Bold, vibrant colors and visual
distortions name derived from LES
1. Neoprimitivism – incorporated
Fauves (wild beast)
elements from the native arts of south
islander and word carvings of African
tribes, uses elongated shapes of
African Arts both sculpture and
paintings
- Amedeo Modigliani
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3. Dadaism – characterized by dream
fantasies, memory images and visual
tricks and surprises
- appeared playful, arose from the
pain European artist felt after WW1
4. Surrealism – depicts illogical,
subconscious dream, world that seemed
to exist beyond the logical conscious
physical one, departure from reality
SURREALIST – dreaming, seeing
illusions, experiencing altered mental
state, depicts morbid or gloomy
subjects
5. Social Realism – express artist
role in social reform
Used artworks to protest against the
injustices, inequalities, immorality
and ugliness of human condition
Address different issues lie war,
poverty, corruption, industrial and
environmental hazards
raise people’s awareness to seek
social reform

ABSTRACTIONISM

- Freedom of expression and openness

- Logical and rational, involves
analyzing, detaching, selecting and
simplifying
- Natural appearances become
unimportant

Representational Abstractionism –
depicts still-recognizable subjects

Pure Abstractionism – no recognizable

subject

STYLES
1. Cubism
Traditional Cubism
Depicts scenes 3-dimentional
from a single manner formed by
stationary point light and shadow
of view
Analyze subject
(geometric forms)
and broke them up
into a series of
planes
 Cubism
Traditional
Reassembled,
tilting and
interlocking them
in different
ways.
Human figures
often represented
with facial
features and body
parts.

2. Futurism
Traditional Futurism
Began in Italy,
1900’s
Created art for a
fast-paced
Machine-propelled
age
Applied motion,
force, speed and
strength

3. Mechanical Style
Traditional Mechanical Style
Basic forms –
planes, cones,
spheres,
cylinders all
fist together
precisely and
realty in their
appointed places
Use primary
colors
Human figures are
mere outlines
without
expression

4. Non-Objectivism
Traditional Non-Objectivism
Logical,
geometrical,
conclusion of
abstractionism
Do not make use
of figures or
representation of
figures
Lines, shapes and
colors were use
in a cool
informal approach
aimed for
balance, unity
and stability
Colors – mainly
black, white and
primaries
Non-objectivist
Dutch painter Piet Mondarian

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Original Dadaist – angry, serious
- Cubist and Surrealist
1. Action Painting
Huge canvasses spread on the floor,
splattering, squinting and dribbling,
no preplanned pattern or design in
mind.
John Pollock
OP ART (Optical Art)
2. Color Field Painting
Use different colors saturation
(purity, vividness, intensity) to
create desired effect.
POP ART, OP ART & CONCEPTUAL
ART
Make use of lighter treatment and
flashes of humor, even irreverence in
their artworks.
POPULAR ART (Pop Art)
- Made use of commonplace,
trivial, even nonsensical
objects
- Enjoy nonsense for its own sake
and simply wanted to laugh at
the world
- Ranged from paintings, to
posters, to collages, to three-
dimensional assemblages and
installations
- Made use of recognizable objects
and images from the emerging
consumer society
- Andy Warhol- pop artist
Roy Lichtenstein
- Inspirations were the
celebrities, advertisements,
billboards and comic strips
- Experiment in visual experience
- A form of action painting – with
the action taking place in the
viewer’s eye
- Lines, spaces and colors were
precisely planned and positioned
to give the illusion of
movement.
CONCEPTUAL ART
- arose from the mind of the artist,
took concrete form for a time and then
disappeared
- Conceptualist questioned the idea of
art as objects to be bought and sold
- they brought their artistic ideas to
life temporarily, using such unusual
materials as grease, blocks of ice,
food, even just plain dirt.

PERFORMANCE ART
- Is a form of modern art in which
the actions of an individual or
a group at a particular time
constitute the work.
- It can happen anywhere, at any
time, or for any length of time.
- It can be any situation that
CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS involves four basic elements
Installation Art Time
- make use of space and materials in Space
truly innovative ways The performer’s body
A relationship between performer
- a contemporary art form that uses and audience
sculptural materials and other media
to modify the way the viewer
experiences a particular space
- usually lifesize or sometimes even
larger, it is not necessarily confined
to gallery spaces.
- it can be constructed or positioned
in everyday public or private spaces,
both indoor and outdoor.