MODERN ART
Modern art-kind of art that does not resemble anything; abstract & distorted
Modern- means something new
One of the things that make modern painting & sculpture hard to grasp is its sheer variety of styles. Some emerge & flourish for a few years & then drop out of fashion, to be replaced by another mode. This includes:
Realism
Impressionism
Post-impressionism
Neo-impressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Expressionism
Surrealism
Futurism
Minimalism
May 1874, a group of young artists held their own art show in Paris & their works were laughed at, criticized and rejected.
Impressionism derived from the painting of Claude Monet, Impression:Sunrise (1874) everything was an impression with flickering strokes of paint that record sensation of light, color & movement
Impressionist painters worked outdoors, preferring to paint landscapes and city scenes reflection & shadows were important elements in their works
Claude Monet an artist who became famous for his impressionistic paintings recognized leader & father of Impressionism
Water Lily & Haystack at Sunset
Auguste Renoir
Outstanding for his delicate portraits of children & women
Expressionism
Main idea: Truth is in the mind and soul, and not in the eye
Expressionist
Exhibit the use of distortion & use of bright screaming colors to express emotions powerfully. give form to their strong inner feelings & they also portray life by personal interpretation of reality through modification & distortion includes both deep despair & intense joy; imager may be dark & painful or bright & pleasurable
Guernica a famous painting by Pablo Picasso done in 1937 depicts the Nazi German bombing of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War it’s black & white oil painting in mural style presents a scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering, & helpless w/o portraying their immediate causes epitomizes the tragedies of war & suffering inflicted on individuals both an anti-war symbol
Modern- means something new
One of the things that make modern painting & sculpture hard to grasp is its sheer variety of styles. Some emerge & flourish for a few years & then drop out of fashion, to be replaced by another mode. This includes:
Realism
Impressionism
Post-impressionism
Neo-impressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Expressionism
Surrealism
Futurism
Minimalism
May 1874, a group of young artists held their own art show in Paris & their works were laughed at, criticized and rejected.
Impressionism derived from the painting of Claude Monet, Impression:Sunrise (1874) everything was an impression with flickering strokes of paint that record sensation of light, color & movement
Impressionist painters worked outdoors, preferring to paint landscapes and city scenes reflection & shadows were important elements in their works
Claude Monet an artist who became famous for his impressionistic paintings recognized leader & father of Impressionism
Water Lily & Haystack at Sunset
Auguste Renoir
Outstanding for his delicate portraits of children & women
Expressionism
Main idea: Truth is in the mind and soul, and not in the eye
Expressionist
Exhibit the use of distortion & use of bright screaming colors to express emotions powerfully. give form to their strong inner feelings & they also portray life by personal interpretation of reality through modification & distortion includes both deep despair & intense joy; imager may be dark & painful or bright & pleasurable
Guernica a famous painting by Pablo Picasso done in 1937 depicts the Nazi German bombing of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil War it’s black & white oil painting in mural style presents a scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering, & helpless w/o portraying their immediate causes epitomizes the tragedies of war & suffering inflicted on individuals both an anti-war symbol