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Modern-Art.pptx
1. Modern Art
Modern art includes artistic work
produced during the period extending
roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s,
and denotes the styles
and philosophies of the art produced
during that era.
2. What’s different
• The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the
past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern
artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas
about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency away
from the narrative, which was characteristic for the traditional arts,
toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. More
recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or
postmodern art.
3. Who created Modern Art
• Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van
Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
all of whom were essential for the development of modern art.
4. Is it really Modern
• Even though modern art called modern its still older than so
many of us it started in beginning of the 19th century and its
still developing today. And there is still so many country’s
using it and its still so popular also so expensive.
5. Why Modern art is so Popular
• Modern art plays an essential role as a stimulus that can
provoke independent thoughts and even emotions. Modern
art gives the audience an opportunity to embrace new ideas
and reflect on changes in the world and our lives differently.
Also following that its so expensive
6. Examples of Modern Art
• Starry night (1889) Vincent van Gogh
• Guernica(1937) Pablo Picasso
• Battle of the Lights, Coney Island (1914) Joseph Stella
• Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954) Salvador
Dalí
• Composition VII (1913) Wassily Kandinsky
• Poker Game (1894) Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
7. Starry night (1889) Vincent van
Gogh
• A quintessential tortured genius, Vincent van Gogh, was a Dutch
post-Impressionist painter who suffered from mental illness his
entire life and died young at the age of 37.
8. Guernica(1937) Pablo Picasso
• Pablo Picasso, known mainly as a Cubist and Surrealist, may not
have been the greatest artist of the twentieth century, but he was
almost certainly the most prolific.
9. Battle of the Lights, Coney Island
(1914) Joseph Stella
• Joseph Stella was an Italian-American who specialized in Futurist
painting in the early 1900s. Then he transitioned to painting in the
Precisionist style in the 1920s and ‘30s.
10. Disintegration of the Persistence
of Memory (1954) Salvador Dalí
• Certainly one of the most eccentric, narcissistic artists of all time,
Salvador Dalí once said, “I am not strange. I’m just not normal.” His
grandiose demeanor aside, Dalí’s genius as a great painter is without
peer, particularly as it relates to the masters of Surrealism.
11. Composition VII (1913) Wassily
Kandinsky
• Generally considered the pioneer of abstract art, Wassily
Kandinsky grew up in Moscow, where he created
his Composition series, which comprised 10 paintings, the number
seven of which Kandinsky called the “most complex piece he ever
created.
12. Poker Game (1894) Cassius
Marcellus Coolidge
• Cassius Coolidge was born in Antwerp, New York. His parents were
abolitionist Quakers. Coolidge, having no fondness for farm labor,
left the fields in the 1860s and began earning a living by painting
signs, illustrating books and creating cartoons for a newspaper.
