4. Emma Sumner
• Artist: Emma Sumner
• Studio: Elevator Artists
• Visual Artist working in Mixed Media
• About My Work:
• My work is a hybrid practice that draws together the
genres of painting, sculpture and textiles.
• It is an expanded practice, but draws mostly on the
principles of painting. It is a complex, yet decorative
practice that maintains a highly feminine quality.
• It deals with identity and the idea of a feminine space
within painting
22. The History Of Contempoary Art.
• Once upon a time all the art in the world was
for rich people or for religion.
• It was a weapon in the war of religion, it was a
social documentaion
• Art was used as a visual narrative, (story)
• documenting the times and happenings.
• Art was elite, it was not for the common
person, mostly for portraiture of those who
were influential, powerful and wealthy.
23. Renaissance (1400–1550)
• Renaissance was the revival of visual arts.
• It gave a rebirth to classical cultural taking
influences and inspiration form the Ancient
Greek and Rome.
• Importance was given to the individual and
humanism.
• Humanism downplayed religious and secular
dogma and instead attached the greatest
importance to the dignity and worth of the
individual.
27. Mannerism (1527–1580)
• Mannerism refers to a style of painting that
was idealistic and articiial ( Idea) than
naturalistic ( nature).
• This period was about style and exaggeration
gesture , elongated bodies ( out of proportion)
and story.
• Famous Mannerist : Michaelangelo,
Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino,
Cellini
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31. Baroque (1600–1750)
• Dramatic, religious, grand. They depicted
biblical story, glorification and power.
• Baroque art above all reflected the religious
tensions of the age
• Thirty Years' War between Catholics and
Protestants (1618–1648)
• artist: Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio,
Palace of Versailles
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36. Romanticism (1780–1850)
• The triumph of imagination and individuality
• Famous Artist:Caspar Friedrich, Gericault,
Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West
• What was happening in the world:American
Revolution (1775–1783); French Revolution
(1789–1799); Napoleon crowned emperor of
France (1803)
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39. Realism
• Celebrating working class and peasants; en
plein air rustic painting
• What was happening in the world?
• European democratic revolutions of 1848
• Famous artist:Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet
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42. • So far we have covered classical painting
within classical paintings there are many
movements. Movements are an art term for
periods of style within art.
classical art movements:
Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Neo-
classical, Romantacism .
there are more but that will do.
43. • All art movements throughput history have
aimed at creating a new art.
• When looking at these art movements you
need to remember that they had never been
done before . These were brand new
inventions to the art world.
• Moving on….
44. • The painters decided they wanted a new art ,
one that was not as literal and realistic.
• Artist became unhappy with, the traditional
methods of realism and instead of painting
directly from life they decided to make an
impression of life and thus Impressionism was
born .
53. Fauvism and Expressionism (1900–1935)
• Harsh colors and flat surfaces (Fauvism);
emotion distorting form
• Famous artist: Matisse, Kirchner, Kandinsky,
Marc
54. Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism,
Constructivism, De Stijl (1905–1920)
• Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments:
new forms to express modern life
• Famous artist: Picasso, Braque, Leger,
Boccioni, Severini, Malevich
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64. Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950)
• Exploring the unconscious, painting
dreams,pushing the boundries.
• Famous artist: Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte,
de Chirico, Kahlo
74. Pop Art (1960s)
• Popular culture, art and the everyday, art for
the masses.
• Age of industry
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81. Minimalism
• Minimalism--A style of art in which the least
possible amount of form shapes, colors, or
lines are used to reduce the concept or idea to
its simplest form (geometric shapes,
progressions).
• A revolt against the consumer nature of the
pop artist.
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84. Postmodernism and Deconstructivism
(1970– )
• Art without a center and reworking and
mixing past styles
• Social commentary on our consumer society
