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The Modern Period

The Modern Period

it is the art movement which offers unlimited opportunities for artists and lovers; many mediums for sculptures are improved during this movement

Realism

adopted by a group of artists and France and recognized as the first modern movement

Gustave Courbet

“young ladies of the village” and “the stone breakers”

Winslow Homer

“the blue boat”

Edward Hopper

“night hawks” “automat” and “self portrait”

impressionism

movement at aims to bring out the effects of experience upon the artists and audiences consciousness

Oscar Claude Monet

“water lilies” and “the japanese footbridge”

Vincent Van Gogh

“the starry night” and “the potato eaters”

Pierre Auguste Renoir

“pont neuf” and “by the seashore”

Edgar Degas

“little dancer of fourteen years” and “ballet rehearsal”

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

It is an art form that looks beyond the natural world, art that is a fascination to foreign cultures and attraction to the exotic primitive cultures of South Africa.

Paul Cezanne

"THE CARD PLAYERS", "CURTAIN", and "JUG AND FRUIT"

Paul Gaugin

"TAHITIAN WOMEN OF THE BEACH”

SYMBOLISM

It is an art movement following the post-Impressionism which is characterized by fascination with the inner world of fantasy, emphasis in imagination over the copying of nature and most of all, from the term itself; it uses symbols in presenting the art subjects. This movement in France and ideas shared by the artists are the rejection of the Realism.

Gustav Klimt

"THE KISS" and "PORTRAIT OF ADELE BLOCK BAUER”

EDVARD MUNCH

“THE SCREAM” “MADONNA” and “VAMPIRE”

Frida Kahlo De Rivera

"SELF-PORTRAIT WITH THIRN NECKLACE AND HUMMINGBIRD" and "SELF-PORTRAIT DEDICATE TO LEON TROTSKY"

Gustave Moreau

"ZEUS AND SEMELE", and "THRACIAN GIRL CARRYING THE HEAD OF ORPHEUS ON HIS LYRE"

ART NOUVEAU

is an art movement that flourished between 1890 to 1910 in Europe and the United States. This art movement refers to the "NEW STYLE" and "NEW ART". This art is characterized by its use of long, sinuous organic lines which is most often engaged in jewelry, architecture, interior design, posters, and illustrations.

Alfons Maria Mucha.

"THE SLAV EPIC" and "THE SEASONS (Spring,Summer)”

Henri Marie Raymonde De Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa

"AT THE MOULIN ROUGE" and "THE HANGOVER".

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

“THE PEACOCK SKIRT”

Fauvism

It is an art movement popular in France with the use of vivid colors on subject like pictures of comfort, leisure, and joy to express feelings.

Koloman Moser

"FLOWER BASKET", and "VENUS IN THE GROTTO".

Henri Matisse

"WOMAN WITH A HAT", and "BLUE NUDE"

Andre Derain

"PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL", and "CHARING CROSS BRIDGE FISHING BOAT"

Henri Charles Manguin

"NUDE BENEATH THE TREES" and "VIEW OVER GRIMAND"

EXPRESSIONISM

It is an art movement which gives emphasis on emotional experiences and the artists attempt to depict subjective, personal, and self- expression, and not objective reality. This movement began in the early 20th century which is centered in Germany and is the movement derived from Cubism.

August Macke

"WOMAN IN GREEN JACKET", "PEOPLE BY THE BLUE LAKE", and "ST. MARY'S HOUSES AND CHIMNEY"

Frank Kupka

He is a Czech artist, member of Ecole de Paris and one of the first painters to produce abstract expressionist colorism

Cubism

It is an art movement which started in France and was suggested by Henri Matisse in 1909. The concept behind this art movement is showing the importance of an object through displaying it from many angles and points of views; thus, objects were broken apart and the pieces could be viewed.

Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso

"THE OLD GUITARIST", "GUERNICA", and "LES DEMOISELLES d' AVIGNON LA MENINAS"

George Braque

"WOMEN WITH A GUITAR", "STILL LIFE WITH A BOTTLE", and "VIOLIN AND THE CANDLESTICK THE GUITAR"

FUTURISM

It is the art movement in the early part of the 20th century which started in Italy. Italian artists at this time celebrate the scientific and technological progress of the modern word; thus, Filippo Tommaso Marinette wrote their manifesto advocating an artistic revolution.

Umberto Boccioni

"DYNAMISM OF THE BIKER" AND "DYNAMISM OF A SOCCER PLAYER“

Gino Severini

"ARMORED TRAIN IN ACTION" and "DYNAMIC HIEROGLYPHIC OF THE BAL TABARIN"

Luigi Russolo

"CROCIFISSIONE CON LE PIE DONNE" and "TOWER BRIDGE"

CONSTRUCTIVISM

It is an artistic and architectural philosophy which emerged in Russia in the early 20th century. The concept of this art movement is that arts should serve a social purpose which is beyond aesthetics.

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin

He is Soviet painter and architect along with Kazimir Malevich; he is one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 19205.

Kasimir Malevich

He is a Russian painter and art theoretician who pioneered the geometric abstract art.

DADAISM

It is a European artistic and literary movement that ignores conventional aesthetic and cultural values producing artworks that are non- sense, no rules, and no values; it is considered as the first anti-art movement. Artworks in this movement include random or ready- made objects that make people shock or are offended; thus, it is the rejection of prevailing standards in art through anti- cultural works.

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

“NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE"

Hans Bellmer

“THE MACHINE GUNNERESS IN A STATE OF GRACE

SUPREMATISM

It is an art movement founded by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich in Russia in 1931. Suprematism refers to an abstract art based upon the supremacy of pure artistic feelings rather than visual depiction of object. Common characteristics of the artworks in this movement focused on geometric forms like circles, squares, rectangles, and lines that are painted in limited colors.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

"WOMEAN PICKING FLOWERS", "FOUR SQUARES", and "BLACK CROSS"

El Lissitzky

“SELF-PORTRAIT", and "DESIGNS FOR USSR UNDER CONSTRUCTION”

DE STUL (THE STYLE)

an art and design movement founded in Holland in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg, a Dutch artist, and Piet Mondrian. Artworks in this movement emphasized on the ideal spiritual harmony and order, geometric shapes e.g., squares and rectangles, simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions with the use of primary or light colors along with black and white.

Ilya Bolotowsky

"VERTICAL YELLOW PLANE" and "GREY DIAMOND"

Max Bill

"ENDLOSE TREEPE"

Theo van Doesburg

"ARITHMETIC COMPOSITION", "CONTRA-COMPOSITION WITH DISSONANCES XVI" and "PURE PAINTING"

ART DECO

This art style is seen across the spectrum of visual arts such as painting, architecture, sculpture, graphic arts, and decorative arts. Artworks in this movement are characterized by rich colors, geometric and angular shapes, fashion oriented, lavish ornamentation and strongly decorative.

Romain de Tirtoff

He is a Russian-born French artist and designer and is diversely talented 20th century artist and designer who flourished in the different fields such as fashion, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, graphic arts, and interior decor.

Santiago Martinez Delgado

“A CENTURY COLOMBIAN EVOLUTION and “RISE OF JESUS ON THE CROSS”

Marcel Jano

"COMPOSITION WITH RED ARROW"

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

This school of painting is characterized by the perspective that art is non- representational which means that there are no actual objects represented and that it is chiefly improvisational. Artists in this movement may have their own ways of expressing emotions through the artwork they produce. Subjects are often distorted and exaggerated, and artists use vivid and shocking colors.

Paul Jackson Pollock

"STENOGRAPHIC FIGURE" and "No. 5”

Mark Rothko

"GREEN AND MAROON" and "OCHRE AND RED ON RED"

Jaques Rosas

"STREET ART", and "OLIS IN CANVASS FROM LIFE"

Franz Kline

"LE GROS", "CHIEF", and "PAINTING NO. 2"

ROBERT MOTHERWELL

"UNTITLED (FIGURATION)", "UNTITLED (ULTRAMARINE)", and "YELLOW OCHRE AND WHITE"

Jose Joya

“HILLS OF NIKKO”

OPTICAL ART

is an international art movement which started in the 19605, is a style of visual art which uses optical illusions. It consists of non-representational geometric shapes which create various types of optical illusions; thus, it gives the viewer the impression of movements or hidden images which patterns, colors, and shapes are chosen.

Bridget Riley

"MOVEMENT IN SQUARES"

Victor Vasarely

"ZEBRA"

Maurits Cornelis Escher

"LIBERATION"

Jesus Rafael Soto

"CUBO POLICROMO (POLYCHROME CUBE)“

POP ART

a group of artists from the Institute of Contemporary Art. This art movement lasted until the early 1970s when the modernist art movement came to an end.

Artists in this movement use acrylic paints, plastics, photographs, fluorescent, and metallic colors which can be found in Billiards, Murals, Magazines, and Papers.

Roy Lichtenstein

"WOMAN WITH FLOWERED HAT" and "NURSE"

Andy Warhol

"RACE RIOT", "FOUR MARLONS", "MEN IN HER LIFE", "TURQUOISE MARILYN", "COCA COLA", and "TRIPLE ELVIS"

MINIMALISM

It is an art movement that rejected the idea that art should reflect the personal reflection; it focused on creating a purely visual piece and not concerned about the hidden or deeper meanings of what a certain artwork conveys to the audience or viewers.

Frank Stella

"Die Fahne Hoch!"

Tony Smith

“Die”

Carl Andre

“Lever”

Robert Morris

“Untitled (Mirrored Cubes)”

Richard Serra

“One Ton Prop”

Sol Le Witt

"Two Open Modular Cubes/ Half Off"

Ronald Bladen

"The X"

CONCEPTUAL ART/ CONCEPTUALISM

It rejects the idea that art “is beautiful” and the conventional painting and sculpture.

Yoko Ono

"PLAY IT BY TRUST" and "MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL"

Yves Klein

"ANTHROPOMETRY: PRINCESS HELENA"

SOCIAL REALISM

It is an international art movement that depicts daily struggles of the everyday condition of working classes or human condition of its time; thus, artworks in this movement portrayed human flaws and cruelty of human nature that includes more of individual people and small settings or social structures.

PHOTO REALISM/ SUPER REALISM

It is a genre of art in which artists study photograph and attempt to produce the image as realistically as possible; thus, artists take photography as their inspiration. It depicts simple scene from everyday lives e.g., trucks, fast f", and truants, or mechanical toys.

INSTALLATION ART

It is relatively a new genre of a three dimensional work of the 1960s and 1970s which involves the configuration or installation of objects in a space such as rooms or architectural spaces for a temporary period; thus, the artworks mounted or installed transform the perception of space and which comprises the artwork.

PERFORMANCE ART

It is a genre of art that is presented live by artists may it be scripted or unscripted, spontaneous, planned, or unplanned, random, or carefully orchestrated, with or without audience, participants, and collaborators. Thus, performance art is an artistic production in nature which focuses on actions, audiences, sites, or settings done in a particular period.