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Modern ArtRejecting the past

ExpressionismFauvismCubismCubismDada

SurrealismAbstract Art

Pop ArtMinimalism

Early Expressionism

Style that portrayed emotions through distorting form and color

Edvard MunchEdvard Munch Mental illness, depression Said he would never want to cast of his

illness Aimed to induce strong reactions in his

viewers

Munch

Vampire

The ScreamScream

PubertyFauvism

1904-1908 Explosion of color, exaggerated and vibrant Disregard for true/actual color Disregard for true/actual color as if gremlins seized the color knob on the tv Influenced by non-European tribal art of the

colonies Leader: Matisse

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MatisseBlue Nude

Derain Purple Bridge

Cubism

Break down of objects into a multitude of geometric shapes

Stuck between representation and abstract Life through a flys eye

Braque

Fishing Boats

Juan Gris

Portrait of Picasso

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Picasso

Italian Girl

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso1881-1973

His mother said, If you become a soldier, youll be a general. If you become a monk, youll end up as the Pope. He said, I y p p ,became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Painted around 50,000 pieces Notorious for relationships with women Children from many women

Guernica

Expressionism1905-1930

Art should express the artists feelings rather than images of the real world

Distorted exaggerated forms and colorDistorted, exaggerated forms and color Began with van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch Dark colors and woodcuts relay sadness of

war

Kathe Kollwitz

Poverty

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Nolde

Wildly Dancing Children

What is art?

Come up with a definition for art.What isnt art?

Abstract Art Began with Kandinsky in 1919 Post WWII to 80s Abandon any reference to recognizable

reality No subject No subject Color can convey emotion even without

content Founder: Kandinsky

Abstract art is art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way

Kandinsky

Improvisation 31

Black Spot I

Mondrian

Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray,Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue

Used only primary colors and non-colors

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Dada Art

1916-1923 Got its name from nonsense

French for hobby horse French for hobby horse Protested the madness of war Founded by WWI refugees Strategy was to denounce and shock

Duchamp Fountain

Duchamp

Mona Lisa with

moustache

Surrealism

1920s and 1930s Implies going beyond realism Painted the bizarre and irrational to express Painted the bizarre and irrational to express

truths Defy common sense Looks like a dream-world

Joan Miro1893-1983

Invented unique biomorphic images Geometric shapes and amoeba-like blobs Colorful playful Colorful, playful Cartoon from another planet

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The PolicemanPoliceman

Dutch Interior I

Chagall

I d thI and the Village

Salvador Dali1904-1989

Exploited his own personality quirks Fears: bugs, crossing streets, trains, boats,

airplanes, Metro, buying shoes in public Actual objects but distorted Had the canvas next to his bed and woke to paint

ddreamscapes Disliked by some because of his fascination with

Hitler Pulled publicity stunts

Gave speech with foot in pail of milk Press conference with lobster on his head Wore a diving suit and lectured but no one could hear

him and he started to asphyxiate himself

The Persistence of Memory

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CrucifixionPortrait of

Paul Eluard

Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition

Cannibalism Ain Autumn

Rene Magritte1898-1967

Le sicle des lumires

The Century of Lights

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Matisse Threatening Weather

Abstract Expressionism

Also called action painting 40s-50s Came out of the jazz eras lack of formCame out of the jazz era s lack of form No longer was art required to be a visual

representation of some object Jackson Pollock=Jack the Dripper (1912-1956)

Paint Hard, Live Hard Died drunk in a car crash-age 44

Jackson Pollock

Eyes in the Heat

Lavender Mist Minimalists

Color Field Huge canvases of color Representations of feelings and ideasRepresentations of feelings and ideas

Hard Edge Calculated, simple forms Colors in harmony

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Color FieldRothko

1968

Rothko

White Center

Hard EdgeKelly Elsworth

Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red

Frank StellaHarran II

Pop Art

1950 s and 1960s Derived from the word popular Used everyday items as inspiration for art Used everyday items as inspiration for art Soup cans and comic strips Mass produced Pope of Pop: Andy Warhol

6 hour movie called Sleep

Andy Warhol

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Roy LichtensteinGo for Baroque

Modern Art Homework

Find a piece of art that fits any of p f f y fthe styles from this PowerPoint and

bring it tomorrow.