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Modern
relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past
Art
the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form
Modern art
comprises creative work created during the era roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s
Modern art
The term is most usually associated with art in which traditional norms are abandoned in favor of experimentation
Modern painters
experimented with new ways of seeing as well as new ideas about material nature and the roles of art.
contemporary art or postmodern art
More recent creative work is referred to it as
Vincent Van Gogh
Wheatfield with Crows, 1890
Salvador Dali
Galatea de las esferas, 1952
Contemporary art
Also referred to as the rule breaker or breaks the norm
Contemporary
living or occurring at the same time
Contemporary
belonging to or occurring in the present
Orlando Quevedo
Pure Pop (mona lisa)
Contemporary art
is artwork made by living artists now. As a result, it depicts the diverse, global, and ever-changing issues that shape our world
Contemporary artists
utilize their work to explore personal or cultural identity, critique societal and institutional systems, or even re-define art.
Contemporary artists
They typically generate difficult or thought-provoking subjects without providing clear answers in the process.
best tools for approaching a piece of modern art
Curiosity, an open mind, and a desire to discuss and debate
Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962
Dex Fernandez
Garapata
Impressionism
was the foundation of contemporary art
Impressionism
It all began in Paris as a reaction to a rather formal and rigorous style of painting practiced in studios and dictated by conventional organizations such as the Academie des Beaux-Arts
Post-Impressionist
primarily composed their works independently of others, allowing them to experiment in a variety of directions, ranging from intensified Impressionism, as typified by van Gogh, to pointillism, as seen in Seurat's most famous work Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-86)
Georges Seurat
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86
Contemporary art
emphasizes innovation and freedom more
Contemporary art
focuses on societal influence, with society as the major emphasis,
Modern art
is an expression of personality
Modern art
is made on canvas
Contemporary art
may be found in a wider range of materials, including object design, tech-enabled artwork, and graphical arts
Abstract expressionism
Artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotion and responses that objects and events arouse within a person
Abstract expressionism
expressionism as a distinct style or movement refers toa number of German artist, as well as Austrian, French, and Russian ones, who became active in the years before World War I and remained so throughout much of the interwar period.
Action painting and Color fields
Two major styles of abstract expressionism
Action painting
Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous application of vigorous, sweeping brushstrokes and the chance effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas
Color fields
Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that The term typically describes large-scale canvases dominated by flat expanses of color and having a minimum of surface detail
Color-field paintings
have a unified single-image field and differ qualitatively from the gestural, expressive brushwork
Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko
Abstract expressionism artists
Jackson Pollock
Convergence, 1950
Mark Rothko
Multiform, 1948
Optical art
also called op art
Optical art
branch of mid-20th-century geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion
Optical art
Achieved through the systematic and precise manipulation of shapes and colors.
Perspective illusion or chromatic tension
The effects of optical art can be based either on
chromatic tension
the dominant medium of Op art
Surface tension
is usually maximized to the point at which an actual pulsation or flickering is perceived by the human eye
Optical art
is a form of abstract art (specifically non-objective art) which relies on optical illusions in order to fool the eye of the viewer
Optical art
It is also called retinal art
Optical art
It relates to geometric designs that create feelings of movement or vibration
Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley
Optical art artists
Victor Vasarely
zebra
Victor Vasarely
Father of OP art
Bridget Riley
Achaean
Kinetic art
Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effect
Kinetic art
as a moniker developed from a number of sources
Kinetic sculpture
sculpture in which movement (as of a motor-driven part or a changing electronic image) is a basic element.
20th century
the use of actual movement, kineticism, became an important aspect of sculpture during this period
Kineticism
became an important aspect of sculpture
Kinetic art
is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect
Kinetic art
is a term that today most often refers to three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles that move naturally or are machine operated
Kinetic art
it is called three-dimensional sculptures today
Kinetic art
early 1950's onward
Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely
Kinetic artists
Alexander Calder
Abstraction
Jean Tinguely
Meta-Harmonie II
Minimalism
also called ABC art
Minimalism
is the culmination of reductionist tendencies in modern art
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 bright industrial colors
Minimalist sculptors
attempted to make their works totally objective, unexpressive, and non-referential.
Minimalism
also referred to as Cool art, Literalist art, Object art, and Primary Structure art
Minimalism
Extreme simplicity, Repetition of shapes, Geometric forms, Not expressive
Donald Judd and Frank Stella
Minimalism artists
Donald Judd
Untitled (Stack)
Frank Stella
Harran II
Pop art
is an art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain
Pop art
It is an art that is based on popular culture and mass media.
Pop art
Characterized by bold, simple, everyday imagery, and vibrant block colors
Pop art movement
aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture by creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars
Tom Wesselmann, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist
Pop art artists
Tom Wesselmann
Great American Nude #21, 1961
Roy Lichtenstein
Popeye, 1961
James Rosenquist
House of fire, 1981
Postmodernism
refers to a reaction against modernism
Postmodernism
It is less a cohesive movement than an approach and attitude toward art, culture, and society
Postmodern art
can be also characterized by a deliberate use of earlier styles and conventions, and an eclectic mixing of different artistic and popular styles and mediums
Postmodernism
A late 21st and 20th century art style
Andy Warhol and Joseph Kosuth
Postmodernism artists
Andy Warhol
10 Marilyn Monroe, 1967
Joseph Kosuth
One and Three Chairs, 1965
Neo-pop art
also called post-pop
Neo-pop art
is a broad term that refers to a style that has been influenced by Pop Art
Minimalism and Conceptualism
The first wave of Neo-Pop Art emerged in the 1980's as a reaction to the _______ and _________ of the 1970's
Neo-pop artists
used the iconography of Pop Art to their own ends, creating commentary that mimics Pop Art, but also incorporating contemporary "kitsch" imagery and references to political and social issues that did not exist in the 60's
Yasumasa Morimura, Takashi Murakami, and Daniel Edwards
Neo-pop artists
Yasumasa Morimura
Portrait Twin (Futago), 1988
Takashi Murakami
727, 1996
Daniel Edwards
Paris Hilton Autopsy, 2007
Contemporary arts
Photorealism, Conceptualism, Performance art, Installation art, Earth art, and Street art
Photorealism
also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism
Photorealism
was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy
Photorealism
The movement came about within the same period and context as Conceptual Art, Pop Art, and Minimalism and expressed a strong interest in realism in art, over that of idealism and abstraction
Photorealist painters
work directly from photographs or digital computer images -either by using traditional grid techniques, or by projecting colour slide imagery onto the canvas.
Photorealism
The aim is to recreate the same sharpness of detail throughout the painting
Photorealism artists
Richard Estes, Gerhard Richter, John Cyril Dojaylo, and Romuel Dojaylo