7.1 & 7.8 Modern Art vs. Postmodern Art vs. Contemporary Art

Modern Art

• works produced during the approximate period of 1870-1970.

• Noteworthy for introducing styles like Fauvism, Impressionism, Surrealism, and Cubism.

• Innovations included screen printing, photography, and collage.

• Renowned artists from this era include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, and Frida Kahlo.

Contemporary Art

• 1970 onwards

• Encompasses a variety of media, from traditional painting to video art and tech-enabled artworks.

• Themes often revolve around present-day issues such as globalization, terrorism, and feminism.

• Notable contemporary artists include Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Banksy, and Yayoi Kusama.

Postmodern Art

• rebels against modern art

• more liberal than modernist art

• more political

assemblage

type of sculpture wherein a sculpture is built (from distinct parts) rather than carved or molded (from a substance)

mobile

a kinetic sculpture with moving parts, typically powered by wind or touch.

Constantin Brâncuși

• most important sculptor of the 20th century

• the kiss

Alberto Giacometti

• best remembered for his figurative work, which helped make the motif of the suffering human figure a popular symbol of post-war trauma.

• walking man 1

Isamu Noguchi

• publicly accessible furniture and architecture.

• abstract works largely in stone based on organic and geometric forms

• kouros, noguchi table

Alexander Calder

• stabile - static wire figure sculpture

• mobile - kinetic abstract sculpture consisting of a carefully balanced design of metal plates, rods, and wires

• josephine baker, gravity & grace

Henry Moore

• England's greatest sculptor and noted for his natural organic forms

• largely responsible for the gradual emergence of British sculpture from provincialism into the mainstream of modern art

• Recumbent Figure

Louise Bourgeois

• renowned for its highly personal thematic content involving the unconscious, sexual desire, and the body.

• Maman

Robert Indiana

• pop word art

• LOVE

Anish Kapoor

• highly acclaimed 20th-century sculptors on the contemporary British scene.

• One of his generation's most successful postmodernist artists, he is best known for his site-specific abstract sculpture

• cloud gate

Jeff Koons

• balloon dog

Damien Hirst

• series of dead animals preserved and floating in formaldehyde

• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

• For the Love of God