ARTA WEEK 13

Modern

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