NEW MEDIA, NEW ART

FORMS (20TH-21ST
CENTURY)
NEW MEDIA, NEW ART FORMS (20TH-21ST CENTURY)

The artist in this period used new materials, new

techniques of painting and developed new
theories about how art should reflect the
perceived world. They abandoned strict
adherence to traditional hierarchies of mediums
and embraced any means, including
technological, which their purposes.
Fauvism and Expressionism (1890-1939 AD)

The Fauvism was the first twentieth-century movement in the

modern art led by Matisse and Rouault. The group called ‘Les
Fauves’ or the “The Wild Beast” used wild colors and depictions
of primitive objects and people. This movement became known
as Expressionism and spread, notably, to Germany. Comparing
the two art movements of Fauvism and German Expressionism is
like looking at two sides of a coin. Both rest on the value of color
as applied in painting, but where Fauvists used color to express
joy, he artist of German Expressionist movement manipulated it
to convey the darker side of human emotions ending up with a
much different result.
Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Line
Artist: Henri Matisse
Dimensions: 40 cm x 32 cm
Period: Fauvism
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: SMK – Statens
Museum for Kunst
Created: 1905
Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Line

The Green Stripe, also known as Portrait of

Madame Matisse. The Green Line, is a
portrait by Henri Matisse of his wife, Amélie
Noellie Matisse-Parayre. It is an oil painting on
canvas, completed in 1913. Wikipedia
Woman with a Hat Artist: Henri Matisse
Dimensions: 81 cm x 60 cm
Location: San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
Period: Fauvism
Created: 1905
Medium: Oil paint
Woman with a Hat
Woman with a Hat is a painting by Henri Matisse. An oil on
canvas, it depicts Matisse's wife, Amelie. It was painted in 1905
and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the fall of the same
year, along with works by André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and
several other artists known as "Fauves". Wikipedia
 Artist: Henri Matisse
Le bonheur de vivre
Location: Barnes Foundation
Dimensions: 176.5 cm ×
240.7 cm (69.5 in × 94.75 in)
Created: 1905–1906
Medium: Oil paint
Periods: Fauvism,
Modernism
Le bonheur de vivre
Le bonheur de vivre is a painting by Henri Matisse.
Along with Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Le
bonheur de vivre is regarded as one of the pillars
of early modernism. Wikipedia
The Scream
Location: National Gallery
and Munch Museum, Oslo,
Norway
Artist: Edvard Munch
Dimensions: 91 cm × 73.5
cm (36 in × 28.9 in)
Year: 1893
The Scream

The Scream is the popular name given to a

composition created by Norwegian Expressionist
artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The original German
title given by Munch to his work was Der Schrei
der Natur, and the Norwegian title is Skrik.
The Old Guitarist

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Dimensions: 1.23 m x 83 cm
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Created: 1903–1904
Periods Expressionism, Picasso’s Blue
Period
The Old Guitarist

The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso

created in late 1903 and early 1904. It depicts an
elder musician, a blind, haggard man with
threadbare clothing weakly hunched over his
guitar while playing in the streets of Barcelona,
Love and Pain (Vampire)

Artist : Edvard Munch

Created: 1893–1895
Medium: Oil paint
Periods: Expressionism, Modern
art, Symbolism
Support: Painting Canvas
Love and Pain (Vampire)
The painting shows a woman with long flame-
red hair kissing a man on the neck, as the couple
embrace. Although others have seen in it "a man
locked in a vampire's tortured embrace – her
molten-red hair running along his soft bare
skin," Munch himself always claimed it showed
nothing more than "just a woman kissing a man on
the neck".
 Cubism
(1907-
1914 AD)
Cubism
Cubism was the first abstract art developed by Pable
Pisacasso and Georges Braque. Cubism has been
considered the most influential art movement of the
20th century. In Cubism artwork, organic forms were
broken down into a series of geometric shapes and
reassembled in an abstract form. Instead of depicting
objects from one viewpoint, cubist artists view it from
many angles selected from sight, memory, and
movement.
Cubism

Cubism had two distinct stages: The Analytic Cubism

and Synthetic Cubism. In Analytic cubism, the artist
reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts
and reconstructed it with a geometric framework in a
two-dimensional picture plane. Synthetic Cubism
explores the use of foreign objects as abstract signs. The
use of collage on a painting is one good example of a
“Synthetic Cubism”.
 Artist: Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Dimensions: 243.9 cm ×
233.7 cm (96 in × 92 in)
Period: Cubism
Location: The Museum of
Modern Art
Created: 1907–1907
Medium: Oil paint
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a large oil painting

created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
The work, part of the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female
prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó, a street
in Barcelona. Wikipedia
The Weeping Woman
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Dimensions: 60 cm x 49 cm
Location: Tate Modern,
London
Period: Cubism
Created: 26 October 1937
Medium: Oil paint
The Weeping Woman
The Weeping Woman is an oil on canvas painted
by Pablo Picasso in France in 1937. Picasso was
intrigued with the subject, and revisited the theme
numerous times that year. This painting, created
on 26 October 1937, was the most elaborate of
the series. Its dimensions are 60 х 49 cm, 23 ⅝ х
19 ¼ inches. Wikipedia
Violin and Candlestick
Painting by Georges Braque
Artist: Georges Braque
Period: Cubism
Created: 1910–1910
Medium: Oil paint
Genre: Still life
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Violin and Candlestick
This work embodies the dynamic and energetic qualities
of Analytic Cubism, a revolutionary artistic style
pioneered by Georges Braque and Picasso to depict
three-dimensional objects on a flat canvas without the
use of traditional Renaissance perspective. In this
conceptual approach to painting, perceived forms are
broken down, fractured, flattened, and then
reconstructed in multiple-point perspective within a
shallow space. Braque described this kind of
fragmentation as "a technique for getting closer to the
object."
Dada (1916-1923AD)
Dada arts
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in
Zurich, Switzerland in the early twentieth century. It
emerged out of negative reaction to the horrors of World
War I and rationalism, which many thought had brought
war about. Dada was a sort of revolution against the very
concept of art that rejected reason and logic, irrationality
and intuition. Marcel Duchamp, one of the leading Dada
artist, used ready0mades or mass-produced objects, one
of his wekk0jbiwb works is the “Fountain” a urinal turned
upside down to which he submitted to an exhibition in
1917.
 Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Fountain
Dimensions: 61 cm x 36 cm
x 48 cm
Period: Dada
Created: 1917–1917
Genre: Site-specific art
Media: Ceramic, glazed
ceramic
DescriptionFountain is a readymade sculpture produced
by Marcel Duchamp in 1917: a porcelain urinal signed
"R.Mutt". Wikipedia
The Bride Stripped Bare by Artist: Period: Dada
Her Bachelors, Even
Created: 1915–1923
Genre: Abstract art
Dimensions: 277.5 cm ×
175.9 cm (109.25 in × 69.25
in)
Media: Wire, Varnish, Oil
paint, Foil
DescriptionThe Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,
Even, most often called The Large Glass, is an artwork by
Marcel Duchamp over 9 feet tall, and freestanding.
Duchamp worked on the piece from 1915 to 1923,
creating two panes of glass with materials such as lead
foil, fuse wire, and dust. Wikipedia
The Chinese Nightingale

Artist: Max Ernst

Created: 1920
Period: Dada
Artwork description & Analysis: Ernst's use of
photomontage was less political and more poetic than
those of other German Dadaists, creating images based
on random associations of juxtaposed images. He
described his technique as the "systematic exploitation
of the chance or artificially provoked confrontation of
two or more mutually alien realities on an obviously
inappropriate level - and the poetic spark that jumps
across when these realities approach each other".
 Surrealism
(1922-1939 AD)
 Surrealism is a movement in art and literature that
began which developed out of Dadaism in the mid-
1920s. The movement spread around the globe,
eventually affecting other art forms in many countries
and languages, as well as philosophy and social theory.
The works feature the elements of surprise, evocation
juxtaposition of strange images in order to include
unconscious dream elements. In painting, it is expressed
in two techniques: the Naturalistic technique in the
works of Salvador Dali and the Abstract technique in the
works of Joan Miro.
The Persistence of MemoryArtist Salvador Dalí
Year 1931
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 24 cm × 33 cm (9.5
in × 13 in)
Location Museum of Modern
Art, New York City
Owner Museum of Modern
Art
 The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La
persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist
Salvador Dalí, and one of his most recognizable works.
First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934
the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of
Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it
from an anonymous donor. It is widely recognized and
frequently referenced in popular culture,[1] and
sometimes referred to by more descriptive (though
incorrect) titles, such as "Melting Clocks", "The Soft
Watches" or "The Melting
 Artist: Pablo Picasso
Guernica Dimensions: 3.49 m x 7.77 m
Created: 26 April 1937–June
1937
Locations: Paris (1937–1937),
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía
Periods: Cubism, Surrealism
Subject: War, Spanish Civil War,
Suffering
 Guernica is a large oil painting on canvas by
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937.
Now in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the gray, black,
and white painting was done at Picasso's home in Paris.
Wikipedia
 Artist: Frida Kahlo
The Broken Column Location: Museo Dolores
Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico
City, Mexico

Dimensions: 39.8 cm × 30.6 cm

(15.7 in × 12.0 in)
Medium: Masonite
Created: 1944
Periods: Surrealism, Modern art,
Magical Realism, Naïve art
 The Broken Column is an oil on masonite painting
by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, painted in 1944 shortly
after she had spinal surgery to correct on-going
problems which had resulted from a serious traffic
accident when the painter was eighteen years old.
Wikipedia
 Artist: Frida Kahlo
The Broken Column Location: Museo Dolores
Olmedo, Xochimilco, Mexico
City, Mexico

Dimensions: 39.8 cm × 30.6 cm

(15.7 in × 12.0 in)
Medium: Masonite
Created: 1944
Periods: Surrealism, Modern art,
Magical Realism, Naïve art
Abstract Expressionism
(1940-1060s)
 Abstract expressionism was an American post-
World War II art movement that emerged in the 1940’s
and flourished in the Fifties. Abstract expressionism is
regarded by many as the golden age of American art
and the first American movement to achieve
international influence. Although artist in this
movement vary greatly in style, yet they all share the
same outlook in the freedom of individual expression.
Woman V Artist: Willem de Kooning
Location: National Portrait
Gallery
Created: 1952–1953
Period: Abstract
expressionism
Genres: Portrait, Abstract art
Autumn Rhythm Artist: Jackson Pollock
Location: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Medium: Enamel paint on canvas
Dimensions: 266.7 cm (105.0 in)
× 525.8 cm (207.0 in)
Created: 1950
Genre: Abstract art
 Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) is a 1950 abstract
expressionist painting by American artist Jackson Pollock
in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City. The work is a distinguished example of
Pollock's 1947-52 poured-painting style, and is often
considered one of his most notable works.
Mural Artist: Jackson Pollock
Location: University of Iowa
Stanley Museum of Art
Created: 1943
Period: Abstract
expressionism
Genre: Abstract art
 Mural is a large painting by American artist
Jackson Pollock. Although signed and dated 1943, the
signature and date were not added until 1947, and the
work was probably completed around the fall of 1943. It
was made with oil paint on linen, and is Pollock's largest
canvas, measuring 2.43 by 6.04 metres
Pop Art (1950-1960s)
 Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the
mid_1950s in United Kingdom and become prevalent in
the late 1950s in the United States. It depicts
method,styles and themes f popular culture and
employs techniques of commercial art or popular
illustration such as comic strips and advertising
Crying Gir Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Dimensions: 41 cm x 61 cm
Medium: Enamel paint
Created: 1963
Period: Pop art
 Crying Girl is the name of two different works by
Roy Lichtenstein: a 1963 offset lithograph on
lightweight, off-white wove paper and a 1964 porcelain
enamel on steel
Optical Art
(1960s)
 Also known as OP Art, a style of visual art
popularized in 1960s. The term isused to describe
artworks which seem to swell and vibrate through their
use to optical illusion. This method of painting concerns
with interaction between illusion and picture plane that
produces dramatic visual effects that are difficult for the
eye to resolve. Most of the known Optical Art were
created only in black and white. OP art is dynamic visual
art, stemming from discordant figure-ground
relationship that causes the two planes to be in
contradictory and the creation of effects through the
use of pattern and line.
Movement in Squares
Bridget Riley 1961
Op art, short for optical art,
is a style of visual art that
uses optical illusions.
 Op art works are abstract, with many better
known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they
give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden
images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or
warping.
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely is considered as one of the fathers of op-
art. Born in 1906, he had a passion for art. Painter
Cezanne was his favorite artist, and as he grew older, his
talent for art grew as well. At first, he tried to take up a
medical career. After noticing that it was not working
out too well, he decided to model his childhood artist
fave and started working on various artworks, eventually
developing his own style, later known as op-art. He
continued to work on his pieces until he died in Paris,
1997.
Fans of op-art
 Fans of op-art consider Bridget Riley to be the
mother of op-art, further developing optical art from
Victor Vasarely's style and approach. She was born in
1931 in Norwood. Her father, a printer, had to move
because of work, and so did the family. They ended up
in Lincolnshire, but soon relocated to Cornwall. She
grew up in a free childood, and had already begun
painting and drawing. She took this up as her main
career until her father had been injured in a car
accident. For awhile she was unable to work on art, but
in 1958 she took it up again and started using the op-art
style to create new things. She was very succesful, and
is still alive today.
 Photorealism
(1960s-1970s)
 A figurative movement that is primarily applied to
paintings from the United States art movement that
began in the late 1960's and early 1970's.The subject
matter usually everyday scenes, is portrayed in an
extremely detailed ,exacting style. It is also super
realism, especially when referring to sculpture. It is the
genre of painting using cameras and photographs to
gather visual information and to create a painting that
appears to be photographic
Gift of Lila Acheson
Wallace
Chuck Close
American, born 1940
Fanny/Fingerpainting
1985
oil on canvas
overall: 259.1 x 213.4 x 6.3 cm
(102 x 84 x 2 1/2 in.)
Gift of Lila Acheson Wallace
1987.2.1
 Fanny/Fingerpainting, a portrait of Close's grandmother-in-
law, represents one of the largest and most masterly executions of a
technique the artist developed in the mid-l980s. That technique
involved the direct application of pigment to a surface with the
artist's fingertips. By adjusting the amount of pigment and the
pressure of his finger on the canvas, Close could achieve a wide
range of tonal effects. Typically, he worked from a black and white
photograph which he would divide into many smaller units by
means of a grid. He then transposed the grid onto a much larger
canvas and meticulously reproduced each section of it. The result is
a monumental, close-up view that forces an uncomfortable intimacy
upon the viewer.
 Agnes, 1998
Oil on canvas
102 1/2 × 84 in
260.4 × 213.4 cm
 Chuck Close reinvented painting with his monumental portraits,
rendered with exquisite, exacting realism from photographic sources.
Playing with ideas of scale, color, and form, Close has become famous for
his rigorous, gridded application of individual color squares, which,
although abstract up close, form unified, highly realistic images from afar.
“I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made,”
he said. “I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.”
Close’s artificially restrictive painting techniques stem in part from physical
limitations—he suffers from an inability to recognize faces, and had a
spinal injury in 1988 that left him largely paralyzed. Close is particularly
known for his portraits of artists, having depicted Robert Rauschenberg,
Cindy Sherman, and Richard Serra, among countless others. His work links
him not only with Photorealists like Richard Estes and Audrey Flack, but
also to Conceptual Art.
 Mark by Chuck Close.
Mark by Chuck Close is an
acrylic on canvas painting that
took Close almost 14 months
to complete in 1978-1979. It is
currently at the MOMA in New
York City. I have seen this
portrait there and it is a very
large portrait.
 Minimalism
(1960s-1970s)
 Also called ABC art ,Minimal Art, Reductivism ,and Rejective
Art.it is school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes
extreme simplification of form - Mainly from American movement in
the visual arts and music originating in New York City during the late
1960's and displaying extreme simplicity of form and a literal
,objective approach. Minimal sculpture is composed of extremely
simple, monumental geometric forms made of fiberglass, plastic,
sheet metal ,or aluminum, either left raw or solidly painted with.
 File:Piet Mondriaan, 1930 -
Mondrian Composition II in Red,
Blue, and Yellow

Artist: Piet Mondrian

Dimensions: 59,5 cm × 59,5
cm (23.4 in × 23.4 in)
Location: Private collection
Created: 1929
Genre: Abstract art
Periods: De Stijl, Modern art
 Composition with Red Blue and Yellow is a 1930
painting by Piet Mondrian. A well-known work of art,
Mondrian contributes to the abstract visual language in a
large way despite using a relatively small canvas. Thick,
black brushwork defines the borders of the different
geometric figures.
Ifafa II

Artist: Frank Stella

Created: 1967
Period: Minimalism
Genre: Abstract art
 Frank Stella, an iconic figure of postwar American art, is
considered the most influential painter of a generation that moved
beyond Abstract Expressionism toward Minimalism. In his early
work, Stella attempted to drain any external meaning or symbolism
from painting, reducing his images to geometric form and
eliminating illusionistic effects. His goal was to make paintings in
which pictorial force came from materiality, not from symbolic
meaning. He famously quipped, “What you see is what you see,” a
statement that became the unofficial credo of Minimalist practice.
In the 1980s and '90s, Stella turned away from Minimalism,
adopting a more additive approach for a series of twisting,
monumental, polychromatic metal wall reliefs and sculptures based
on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Red Circle on Black

Artist: Jiro Yoshihara

Created: 1965
Period: Minimalism
Genre: Abstract art
 Frank Stella, an iconic figure of postwar American art, is
considered the most influential painter of a generation that moved
beyond Abstract Expressionism toward Minimalism. In his early
work, Stella attempted to drain any external meaning or symbolism
from painting, reducing his images to geometric form and
eliminating illusionistic effects. His goal was to make paintings in
which pictorial force came from materiality, not from symbolic
meaning. He famously quipped, “What you see is what you see,” a
statement that became the unofficial credo of Minimalist practice.
In the 1980s and '90s, Stella turned away from Minimalism,
adopting a more additive approach for a series of twisting,
monumental, polychromatic metal wall reliefs and sculptures based
on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.