CONTEMPORARY ARTS - LESSON 1 (copy)

ART

is a skill of using different materials or media to represent an idea or concept.

"ars", "skill"

ART came from the Latin word “___”, meaning “___”. 

ART

the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.

ART

is an expression

ART

artists make use of different materials and different media to express mood, feeling, experiences, cultural backgrounds, religions, and beliefs in various art forms.

CONTEMPORARY ART

the art of today

CONTEMPORARY ART

initially started and grew with modernism

ROGER ELIOT FRY 

He and his colleagues founded the CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY IN 1910, whose main goal was for the artworks to be purchased in public museums.

1930s

Throughout the ____, more institutions were founded using the term contemporary art.

1960s

Some art historians considered the ___ as the BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART with the emergence of POP ART, an art movement that veered away from modernism.

MODERN ART 

Focuses on the content of the picture as well as the beauty and form

MODERN ART 

were created from the 1880s to the 1970s

MODERN ART 

In terms of ART STYLE, it is considered as a radical departure from traditional art

1. Impressionism

2. Fauvism

3. Cubism

4. Surrealism

Name the four art styles of modern art

Woman with a Parasol
Claude Monet
1875

Name the painting, artist, and date

Bâteaux dans le Port de Collioure
André Derain
1905

Name the painting, artist, and date

Weeping Woman

Picasso
1937

Name the painting, artist, and date

The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dalí
1931

Name the painting, artist, and date

CONTEMPORARY ART

Focuses on the process of making the artwork itself and the concept behind the creation of artworks

CONTEMPORARY ART

started from the 1930s to the present time

CONTEMPORARY ART

In terms of art style, it is the emergence of abstract expressionism

Composition
Willem de Kooning

1955

Name the painting, artist, and date

Convergence

Jackson Pollock

1952

Name the painting, artist, and date

Modern Art

-content of the picture
-beauty and form

Contemporary Art

-process of making the artwork itself
-concept behind the creation of artworks

SUZI NASSIF

• Lebanese Contemporary Artist

• “The most prominent feature of contemporary art is the fact that it has no distinct feature or single characteristic”

PAINTING

Artists make use of color pigments and apply them on canvas or boards to express their thoughts and ideas.

SCULPTURE

Artists are no longer limited to traditional media, such as clay, stone, marbles, or metals, in creating their work. 

They can incorporate other elements and media, such as pieces of clothing, coins, found objects, and the like.

PHOTOGRAPHY 

The main purpose of this contemporary art form is to communicate and document events over time. 

PERFORMANCE 

Contemporary artists use their bodies as medium or tool to communicate ideas or concepts through actions or movements. 

It may be acting, singing, dancing, or oral recitation of written works.

DIGITAL AND VIDEO ART

Maximizing technology, artists use computers rather than traditional art tools or media to create their work.

1.POP ART

2.MINIMALISM

3.PHOTOREALISM

4.FIGURATIVE ART

5.EARTH ART / LAND ART

6.STREET ART

7.CONCEPTUAL ART

8.INSTALLATION

9.PERFORMANCE ART

NAME THE MAJOR CONTEMPORARY ART FORMS

POP ART

• is a British and American art movement that came about as a reaction against abstract expressionism, the style of which emphasizes passionate expression and obscure imagery.

• Moreover, it was inspired by advertising, magazines, television, and comic strips.

ANDY WARHOL and ROY LICHTENSTEIN 

POP ART was piioneered by _____ and ______

RICHARD WOLHEIM (American philosopher)

The term Minimalism was first coined by _________

MINIMALISM

Its main goal is to reduce paintings and sculptures to their essentials: the pure qualities of color, form, space, and materials.

Campbell's Soup

Andy Warhol

1961

Name the painting, artist, and date

Drowning Girl

Roy Lichtenstein

1963

Name the painting, artist, and date

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow

Piet Mondrian

1930

Name the painting, artist, and date

PHOTOREALISM

A genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

Supreme Hardware
Richard Estes
1974

Name the painting, artist, and date

FIGURATIVE ART

Any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure.

Untitled

Jude Zawaideh

Name the painting, artist, and date

The Three Dancers

Pablo Picasso

1925

Name the painting, artist, and date

EARTH ART / LAND ART

Artists create structures in a landscape using natural materials such as rocks. The goal of this art movement is to transform natural landscapes into works of art

STREET ART

Inspired by graffiti art in the 1980s, street artists create their artworks on public places such as walls of buildings, sidewalks, and highway overpasses in urban areas.

These artworks convey political ideas or social commentaries.

CONCEPTUAL ART

art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object.

INSTALLATION

Another art form or artistic genre where three-dimensional works are usually site-specific, with main goal being to transform the spectators’ perception of space. These are usually done or executed on a large scale depending on the space or site.

PERFORMANCE ART

The artist’s goal for this drama- inspired approach is to convey a message or idea through various conceptualized performances. 

-time

-space

-the performer’s body

-a relationship between the performer and the audience

Performance Art has four basic elements:

PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, PERFROMANCE, DIGITAL AND VIDEO ART

Name the 5 Contemporary Arts