Arts 10 Modern Art

SY 2020 – 2021 Modern Art

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C. EFFECTS ON THE WORLD OF ART

OUTLINE
I. Introduction VI. Expressionism: A Bold ● The art movements of the late 19th century to the 20th century
A. Technological New Movement captured and expressed all these and more.
Breakthroughs A. Neoprimitivism
B. Social, Political, and B. Fauvism II. IMPRESSIONISM: ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT
Environmental Changes C. Dadaism
C. Effects on the World of D. Surrealism ● Impressionism
Art E. Social Realism → An art movement that emerged in the second half of the 19th
II. Impressionism: Origins of VII.Abstractionism century among a group of Paris-based artists
the Movement A. Cubism → Lasted less than 20 years
A. The Influence of B. Futurism → Coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude
Delacroix C. Mechanical Style Monet, “Impression, soleil levant”
III. Impressionism: A Break D. Nonobjectivism
from Past Painting VIII. Abstract Expressionism, A. THE INFLUENCE OF DELACROIX
Traditions Pop Art, Op Art
A. Color and Light A. The New York School ● Delacroix was greatly admired and emulated by the early
B. “Everyday” Subjects B. Action Painting impressionists – specifically for his use of expressive
C. Painting Outdoors brushstrokes, his emphasis on movement rather than on clarity
C. Color Field Painting
D. Open Composition of form, and most of all his study of the optical effects of color.
D. After “The New York
E. The Influence of School”
Photography ● The Barque of Dante
E. Neodadaism and Pop
IV. Impressionism: Works of → Delacroix’s painting that contained a then revolutionary
Art
Manet, Monet, and Renoir technique that would profoundly influence the coming
F. Conceptual Art
A. Edouard Manet impressionist movement
G. Op Art
B. Claude Monet → loosely based on a fictional scene from Dante’s “Inferno”
IX. Contemporary Arts Form:
C. Auguste Renoir Installation Art and
V. Post-Impressionism: Works III. IMPRESSIONISM: A BREAK FROM PAST
Performance Art
of Cezanne and Van Gogh A. Installation Art
PAINTING TRADITIONS
A. Paul Cezanne B. Performance Art
B. Vincent Van Gogh A. COLOR AND LIGHT

I. INTRODUCTION ● The impressionists painted with freely brushed colors that

conveyed more of a visual effect than a detailed rendering of
● 20th Century the subject.
→ Saw a boom in the interchange of ideas, beliefs, values, and
lifestyles that continues to bring the citizens of the world B. “EVERYDAY” SUBJECTS
closer together
● Impressionists began to break away from the creation of
A. TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS formally posed portraits and grandiose depictions. They
ventured into capturing scenes of life around them.
● In just over 100 years, humans went from hand-cranked ● They presented ordinary people seemingly caught off-guard
telephones to hands-free mobile phones, from the first doing everyday tasks.
automobiles to inter-planetary space vehicles, from local radio
broadcasting to international news coverage via satellite, from C. PAINTING OUTDOORS
vaccinations against polio and smallpox to laser surgery.
● The impressionists found that they could best capture the ever-
B. SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL changing effects of light on color by painting outdoors in natural
light. This gave their works a freshness and immediacy.
CHANGES
D. OPEN COMPOSITION
● The 20th century also suffered through two World Wars, and
several regional wars. ● Impressionists experimented with unusual visual angles, size of
objects that appeared out of proportion, off-center placement,
● There was the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Asian
economic crisis of the 1990s. and empty spaces on the canvas.

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 E. THE INFLUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY A. PAUL CEZANNE

● Photography inspired impressionists to capture fleeting Personal Information

moments of action, whether in landscapes or in the day-to-day ● French artist and post-impressionist painter
lives of people. ● Exemplified the transition from late 19th-century impressionism
to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century
IV. IMPRESSIONISM: WORKS OF MANET, MONET,
AND RENOIR Works
● Works include:
A. EDOUARD MANET → Hortense Fiquet in a Striped Skirt
→ Still Life with Compotier
Personal Information → Harlequin
● One of the first 19th century artists to depict modern-life → Boy in a Red Vest
subjects
● Key figure in the transition from realism to impressionism B. VINCENT VAN GOGH

Works Personal Information

● Works include: ● Post-impressionist painter from the Netherlands
→ Argenteuil ● Remarkable for his works’ strong, heavy brush strokes, intense
→ Rue Mosnier Decked With Flags emotions, and colors that appeared to almost pulsate with
→ Café Concert energy
→ The Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Works
B. CLAUDE MONET ● Works include:
→ Sheaves of Wheat in a Field
Personal Information → The Sower
● One of the founders of the impressionist movement along with → Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers
his friends Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille → Bedroom at Aries
● The most prominent of the group and is considered the most → Starry Night
influential figure in the movement → Wheat Field with Cypresses
● Best known for his landscape paintings, particularly those
depicting his beloved flower gardens and water lily ponds at his VI. EXPRESSIONISM: A BOLD NEW MOVEMENT
home in Giverny
● Expressionism
Works → A Western art world movement that arose in the early 1900s
● Works include: → Created works with more emotional force, rather than with
→ La Promenade realistic or natural images
→ The Red Boats, Argenteuil
→ Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies A. NEOPRIMITIVISM
→ Irises in Monet’s Garden
● Neoprimitivism
C. AUGUSTE RENOIR → Art style that incorporated elements from the native arts of
the South Sea Islanders and the wood carvings of African
Personal Information tribes which suddenly became popular at that time
● One of the central figures of the impressionist movement
● Early works were snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color ● Amedeo Modigliani
and light → Used the oval faces and elongated shapes of African art both
his sculptures and paintings
→ Works include:
Works
▪ Head
● Works include:
▪ Yellow Sweater
→ Dancer
→ A Girl with a Watering Can
B. FAUVISM
→ Mile Irene Cahen d’Anvers
→ Luncheon of the Boating Party
● Fauvism
→ Style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions
V. POST-IMPRESSIONISM: WORKS OF CEZANNE
→ Derived from les fauves (wild beasts), referring to the group
AND VAN GOGH of French expressionist painters who painted in this style
→ Most known is Henri Matisse
● Post-Impressionism ▪ Blue Window
→ Outgrowth movement of the highly influential period of ▪ Woman with Hat
impressionism

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 C. DADAISM ▪ Three Musicians
▪ Girl Before a Mirror
● Dadaism
→ Style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and B. FUTURISM
visual tricks and surprises
→ Arose from the pain that a group of European artists felt after ● Futurism
the suffering brought by World War I → Began in Italy in the early 1900s
→ Derived from the child’s term for hobbyhorse, dada, to refer → Created art for a fast-paced, machine-propelled age
to their new “non-style” → Depicted the dynamic sensation of motion, force, speed, and
▪ Melancholy and Mystery of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico strength of mechanical forms
▪ I and the Village by Marc Chagall ▪ Armored Train by Gino Severini (Italian painter)

D. SURREALISM C. MECHANICAL STYLE

● Surrealism ● Mechanical Style

→ Style that depicted an illogical, subconscious dream world → Basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders
beyond the logical, conscious, physical one all fit together precisely and nearly in their appointed places
→ Name came from the term “super realism,” with its artworks ▪ The City by Fernand Leger
clearly expressing a departure from reality
→ Works depict morbid or gloomy subjects D. NONOBJECTIVISM
▪ Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
→ Other works were quite playful and even humorous ● Nonobjectivism
▪ Diana by Paul Klee → Logical geometrical conclusion of abstractionism
▪ Personages with Star by Joan Miro → Works in this style did not make use of figures or even
representations of figures
E. SOCIAL REALISM ▪ New York City by Piet Mondrian (Dutch painter)

● Social Realism VIII. ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, POP ART, OP

→ Expressed the artist’s role in social reform ART
→ Artists used their works to protest against the injustices,
inequalities, immorality, and ugliness of the human A. THE NEW YORK SCHOOL
conditions
▪ Miners’ Wives by Ben Shahn ● New York School
▪ Guernica by Pablo Picasso → Established due to the reverse migration that brought
European scientists, architects, and artists to American
VII. ABSTRACTIONISM shores during the dark days of World War II

● Abstractionism ● Abstract Expressionism

→ Had the same spirit of freedom of expression and openness → Synthesis of Europe’s cubist and surrealist styles by the
that characterized life in the 20th century, but it differed from daring young artists in this movement
expressionism in certain ways
B. ACTION PAINTING
● Abstractionist Movement
→ Arose from the intellectual points of view in the 20th century, ● Jackson Pollock
→ Involved analyzing, detaching, selecting, and simplifying → Popularized action paintings
→ Worked on huge canvases spread on the floor, splattering,
● Representational Movement squirting, and dribbling paint with no pre-planned pattern or
→ Depicting still-recognizable subjects design in mind
▪ Oval Still Life by Georges Braque → First show was in New York in 1943 that focused on abstract
expressionism
● Pure Abstractionism ▪ Autumn Rhythm
→ No recognizable subject could be discerned
C. COLOR FIELD PAINTING
A. CUBISM
● Color Field Painting
● Cubism → Use of different color saturations to create their desired
→ Derived its name from the cube, a three-dimensional effects
geometric figure composed of strictly measured lines, planes, → Works were huge fields of vibrant color
and angles ▪ Magenta, Black, Green on Orange by Mark Rothko
→ Artworks are a play of planes and angles on a flat surface ▪ Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Barnett Newman
→ Some works took the more intimate “pictograph” approach,
● Pablo Picasso filling the canvas with repeating picture fragments or symbols
→ Spanish painter/sculptor cubist
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 ▪ Forgotten Dream by Adolph Gottlieb → Creates an entire sensory experience for the viewer
▪ Abstract No. 2 by Lee Krasner
B. PERFORMANCE ART
D. AFTER “THE NEW YORK SCHOOL”
● Performance Art
● The New York School slowed down by the early 1960s → Form of modern art in which the actions of an individual or a
● A new crop of artists came on the scene using lighter treatment group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute
and flashes of humor the work

E. NEODADAISM AND POP ART Basic Elements

1. Time
● Neodadaism 2. Space
→ Wanted to make reforms in traditional values, enjoy 3. The performer’s body
nonsense for its own sake and simply wanted to laugh at the 4. A relationship between performer and audience
world

● Pop Art
→ Ranged from paintings, to posters, to collages, to three
dimensional “assemblages” and installations
→ Came from the word “popular”
▪ Andy Warhol – inspiration were celebrities,
advertisements, billboard, and comic strips
− Twelve Cars
− Marilyn Monroe
▪ Roy Lichtenstein – American pop artist, became a
leading figure in the new art movement
− Whaam!
− In the Car

F. CONCEPTUAL ART

● Conceptual Art
→ Arose in the mind of the artist that took concrete form for a
time and then disappeared
→ Questioned the idea of art as objects to be bought and sold
→ Requires little or no physical craftsmanship
▪ One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth

G. OP ART

● Op Art
→ Emerged in the 1960s
→ Also known as optical art
→ Another experiment in visual experience – a form of “action
painting”
→ Lines, spaces, and colors were precisely planned and
positioned to give the illusion of movement
▪ Current by Bridget Riley
→
IX. CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORM: INSTALLATION
ART AND PERFORMANCE ART

A. INSTALLATION ART

● Installation Art
→ Uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way
the viewer experiences a particular space
→ Not necessarily confined to gallery spaces
▪ Cordillera Labyrinth by Roberto Villanueva
▪ Pasyon at Rebolusyon by Santiago Bose
▪ Go to Room 117 by Sid Gomez Hildawa
▪ Four Masks by Edgar Talusan Fernandez

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