2. TOPICS TO TALK
ABOUT:
● Modern Art
● Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism
● Dadaism, Surrealism
● Pop Art, Op Art, Performance Art, Happenings, and
Mob
● Major Artists of these Styles, including their
Philippine Counterparts
3. During the 19th century, many artists started to make
art based in their own, personal experiences and about
topics that they chose. With the publication of
psychologist Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of
Dreams (1899) and the popularization of the idea of a
subconscious mind, many artists began exploring dreams,
symbolism, and personal iconography as avenues for the
depiction of their subjective experiences.
4.
5. What is
style?
Art styles describe the way the artwork looks.
Style is basically the manner in which the artist
portrays his or her subject matter and how the artist
expresses his or her vision.
Style is determined by the characteristics that
describe the artwork, such as the way the artist
employs form, color, and composition, to name just a
few.
6.
7. In 1874, a group of artists held
an exhibition in Paris. One of these
artists was Claude Monet, who
exhibited a painting entitled
Impression, Sunrise. The critics were
shocked by what they saw that they
took the word “impression” from
Monet’s artwork and used as a label when referring, unkindly, to all the
artworks in the exhibition. The movement, called impressionism, was
described as an art style that tried to capture an impression of what the
eyes see at a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the subject.
IMPRESSIONIS
M
8. Characteristic
s:
1. Being painted quickly.
2. Time and motion are conscious elements in an
impressionism artwork.
3. Painters prefer making art outside.
4. Use of small brush strokes.
5. Subjects usually include the people of the city
involved in everyday events.
9. CLAUDE MONET
Claude Monet was a key figure in
the Impressionist movement that
transformed French painting in the
second half of the nineteenth
century. Throughout his long career,
Monet consistently depicted
the landscape and leisure activities
of Paris and its environs as well as
the Normandy coast.
Over a Pond of Water, 1899
10. PIERRE- AUGUSTINE
RENOIR
French painter originally associated
with the Impressionist movement.
His early works were typically
Impressionist snapshots of real life,
full of sparkling colour and light. By
the mid-1880s, however, he had
broken with the movement to apply a
more disciplined, formal technique
to portraits and figure paintings,
particularly of women.
The Dance at Le Moulin de la Galetta,
1876
11. Impressionism lasted some 15 years in its purest
form in Europe, but it profoundly influenced all
paintings that followed worldwide. Many Filipino
artists picked up the style of the impressionists
as early as when they first became popular in
Europe. Well- known Filipinos who were
influenced by impressionism include Juan Luna
and Fernando Amorsolo.
14. Expressionism, artistic style in
which the artist seeks to depict not
objective reality but rather the
subjective emotions and responses
that objects and events arouse within a
person. In a broader sense
Expressionism is one of the main
currents of art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its qualities of
highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a
wide range of modern artists and art movements.
EXPRESSIONI
SM
15. EDVARD
MUNCH
Edvard Munch is a Norwegian born
expressionist painter. His best-known
work, The Scream, has become one of
the most iconic images of world art. In
the late 20th century, he played a
great role in German expressionism
and the art form that later followed;
namely because of the strong mental
anguish that was displayed in many of
the pieces that he created.
The Scream, 1892
16. WASSILY
KANDINSKY
The first to make truly abstract
art in which color and form
take on expressive life. He
believed that shape, line and
color have emotional
properties capable of
conveying heightened feelings.
Black Frame, 1922
17. CUBIS
M
It is an early 20th-century art
movement that made innovations in
paintings and sculptures in Europe.
The art style derived its name from the
cube, a three- dimensional geometric
figure which is composed of measured
lines, planes, and angles. The
artworks of the cubist artists are a
playful combination of planes and
angles on a flat surface.
Weeping Woman, 1937
18. CUBISM
ARTWORKS
Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937
Pablo Picasso- proponent
of Cubism
Houses of l’Estaque, 1908
George Braque
Zig IV, 1961
David Smith
19. CUBISM ARTWORKS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
Sungka, 1967
Vicente Manansala
Combancheros, 1972
Cesar Legaspi
Birds of Paradise, 1954
Vicente Manansala
20. DADAIS
M
Dadaism was an artistic
movement in the early 20th century,
practiced by a group of European
writers, artists, and intellectuals in
protest against World War I. The
artworks showed rejection of logic,
reason, and aestheticism and
expressed nonsense, irrationality,
and anti-elite protest in their works. Mona Lisa, 1919
Marcel Duchamp
21. MARCEL
DUCHAMP
French artist who broke down the
boundaries between works of art and
everyday objects. His irreverence for
conventional aesthetic standards led
him to devise his famous ready-
mades and heralded an artistic
revolution. Duchamp was friendly
with the Dadaists, and in the 1930s he
helped to organize Surrealist
exhibitions.
Fountain, 1917
22. SURREALIS
M
Surrealism is an art style that
depicts an illogical and
subconscious dream world
beyond the logical, conscious,
and physical one. It was derived
from the term super-realism, with
its artworks clearly showing
hallucinations, dreams, seeing
illusions, and a departure from
what is real and natural.
Christmas Card Happy, 1943
Herbert Bayer
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23. GIORGIO DE
CHIRICO
Created one of the first of those
invented worlds of the
surrealists and one of the most
enduring. The world he created
is at once desolate and empty
but filled with suggestions,
deserted yet full of mysterious
presence.
The Nostalgia of the Infinite, 1911
Giorgio de Chirico
25. POP
ART
Pop art is an art movement
that arose in the United Kingdom
and the United States of America
during the mid-to-late-1950s. The
movement presents a challenge to
traditions of fine art by including
imagery from popular and mass
cultures, such as advertising, comic
books, and mundane mass-
produced cultural objects.
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26. ANDY WARHOL
Andy Warhol is known for his
bright, colorful paintings and
prints of subjects ranging from
celebrities including Marilyn
Monroe and Mohammed Ali, to
everyday products such as cans
of soup and Brillo pads.
Green Coca Cola Bottles, 1962
Andy Warhol
27. ROY
LICHSTENSTEIN
A key figure in the Pop art movement
and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein
grounded his profoundly inventive
career in imitation—beginning by
borrowing images from comic books
and advertisements in the early
1960s, and eventually encompassing
those of everyday objects, artistic
styles, and art history itself.
Girl Drowning, 1963
Roy Lichstenstein
28. POP ART in the
PHILIPPINES
Illustration
Jejomar Limbo
Painting “Plut”
JP Cuison
29. OP
ART
This is an experiment in visual
experience as a form of "action
painting" with the action taking place
in the viewer’s eye. Lines, spaces,
and colors are carefully and precisely
planned, visualized, and positioned
in op art to illustrate the illusion of
movement, which lets viewers
experience varied sensations from
discomfort to confusion to dizziness.
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32. HAPPENING
S
Happening, event that
combined elements of painting,
poetry, music, dance, and
theatre and staged them as a
live action. The term Happening
was coined by the American
artist Allan Kaprow in the 1950s.
18 Happenings in 6 Parts
Allan Kaprow
33. PERFORMANCE
ART
Taking their lead from the
action- oriented happenings,
artists began to create an art of
staged events or performances
involving the artist talking, singing
or dancing. Performance art
requires artists to use their bodies
in front of an audience.
Rhythm 0, 1974
Marina Abramovic
34. ART MOB
Art Mob, as the name
suggests, is a group of artists
moving around and showcasing
their artworks. The motivation
behind art mob is take art and
music out of the galleries and
concert halls respectively so that
anyone and everyone can interact
with art.
Editor's Notes
Remember, the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.
ID- pleasure
EGO- decision maker/ reality
SUPEREGO- morality
Remember, the id is the impulsive part of your personality that is driven by pleasure and repulsed by pain, the superego is the judgmental and morally correct part of your personality, and the ego is the conscious part of your personality that mediates between the id and the superego and makes decisions.
ID- pleasure
EGO- decision maker/ reality
SUPEREGO- morality
characterizations of the style include small, visible brushstrokes that offer the bare impression of form, unblended color and an emphasis on the accurate depiction of natural light.
Impressionists strongly emphasized the effects of light in their paintings. They used short, thick strokes of paint to capture the essence of the object rather than the subject's details. Quickly applied brush strokes give the painterly illusion of movement and spontaneity.
Impressionists strongly emphasized the effects of light in their paintings. They used short, thick strokes of paint to capture the essence of the object rather than the subject's details. Quickly applied brush strokes give the painterly illusion of movement and spontaneity.
Environ- surrounding area
Claude Monet's “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies” painting remains one of his most celebrated works to date due to its ability to capture not only the beauty of nature but also its powerful message about finding balance between human existence and our environment.
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The painting is called Mi Hijo Andres, and was painted in 1889 by Juan Luna, who also painted the famous Spoliarium. According to the description, the work is “an oil painting of Luna's first-born and only son when he was three years and four months old.
Spoliarium- The painting symbolizes the despair and the countless deaths of Filipinos during the Spanish reign. – largest painting in Phil
63million
Expressionism refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist's inner feelings or ideas.
Art should present more personal and expressive view of life.
In the painting Separation from 1896 we see a young fair-haired woman looking out to sea while her hair flows out to the man’s chest, as if they are still tied together even though she is leaving him. This is an example of the hair symbolism that we find in many of Munch’s motifs. The man is dressed in black, the colour of sorrow and despair. He is clutching his heart with a bleeding hand.. In front of him a plant or flower is growing; its shape and colour look as if it could be his own bleeding heart.
As a child Edvard was frequently ill and had to stay home from school for long periods. The medicine bottle on the bedside table was his constant companion for many years. He spent long winters in bed, and when he was not well enough to attend school, he was taught at home.
More intense than normal
Wassily Kandinsky was known as a pioneer of abstract painting.
He believed that geometric forms, lines, and colors could express the inner life of the artist—a theory quite evident in his own explosive paintings
Proponent- Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
Portrait of Dora Maar is a 1937 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar the painter's lover, seated on a chair.
Picasso painted this portrait of Surrealist photographer Dora Maar (1907–1997), then his lover, during their yearlong sojourn at Royan. Her face and body have been radically distorted.
Nonsensical: Dadaist art often features irrationality, humor, and silliness. Marcel Duchamp famously painted a mustache on a postcard of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to show his irreverence for established artistic traditions and his sense of humor.
At age 15, he was a good impressionist painter, at 20s, he began making cubism arts. As he gets older, he is well- known for his new kind of artwork which is called “ready- mades”
The term 'readymade' refers to a work of art that is created when an artist utilizes a found object, isolates it from its intended context or function, and gives the object a new meaning.
He believed that art should tease the mind rather than gratifying the eye of the audience.
Surrealism is an avant-garde art movement that developed in Europe during the 1920s. It focused on artistic expression through the exploration of the unconscious mind, drawing heavily on Sigmund Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis. Surrealist artworks often featured dreamlike scenarios with abstract, sometimes disturbing imagery as a method of pure automatic expression. Below is an in-depth explanation of Surrealism and the influence of psychoanalysis on its art.
SURREALISM- WEIRD, UNUSUAL, STRANGE, UNREAL
Desolate- empty
Deserted- empty of people
The Pop art movement aimed to solidify the idea that art can draw from any source, and there is no hierarchy of culture to disrupt this.
4 characteristics of Pop Art:
Recognizable imagery– artworks are more of iconic artists or objects
Bright colors--- Primary colors red, yellow, and blue were prominent pigments that appeared in many famous works.
Irony and satire--- Humor was one of the main components of Pop art
Innovative techniques--- Andy Warhol used silkscreen printing for large quantities of production
Roy Lichstenstein used lithography– printing from a metal or stone to achieve his signature visual style.
Expressionism that is fully abstract, or exhibits “strong abstraction” (meaning that it no longer bears any resemblance to anything in the outside world and is completely generated by the artist's imagination) is called Abstract Expressionism and was an artistic movement during the 1940s
Warhol embraced bold and often garish colors. He used a high level of saturation and contrast to draw focus to particular features and make the iconic imagery stand out even more.
He made pop art that are like comics, with dialogues in it.
He became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of everyday objects. He was one of a group of artists making art in the 1960s who were called pop artists because they made art about 'popular' things such as TV, celebrities, fast food, pop music and cartoons.
OPTICAL ART
Victor Vasarely--
MC Escher--
Live action kind of art.
On the spot
A lot of people don’t visit galleries and concerts due to various reasons; and a lot of artists never get a chance to display at galleries in the early stage of their careers. With art mob, we want individuals from different backgrounds to interact with art and music, and appreciate the beauty and the energy that art brings to the society. We believe that it is only when art is not bound by walls that it receives it most honest interaction with the society.
