Arts 10 1st Grading

2. •THESE BIZARRE AND OUT-OF-THIS WORLD ART MOVEMENTS WERE POSITIVELY
RECEIVED AND PAVED THE WAY TOWARDS THE BIRTH OF OTHER CONTEMPORARY
ART STYLES.
•THE ABSTRACTIONIST MOVEMENT AROSE FROM THE INTELLECTUAL POINTS OF VIEW
IN THE 20TH CENTURY. IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE, PHYSICISTS WERE FORMULATING
A NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH RESULTED IN THE CONCEPTS OF SPACE-TIME
AND RELATIVITY.
•THIS INTELLECTUALISM WAS REFLECTED EVEN IN ART. WHILE EXPRESSIONISM WAS
EMOTIONAL, ABSTRACTIONISM WAS LOGICAL AND RATIONAL. IT INVOLVED
ANALYZING, DETACHING, SELECTING AND SIMPLIFYING

3. •IN THE PREVIOUS CENTURIES, ARTWORKS REPRESENTED
THE OUTSIDE WORLD; HOWEVER, 20TH CENTURY
ABSTRACTIONISM DID NOT CONSIDER NATURAL
APPEARANCES IMPORTANT.
•ARTISTS GOT AWAY FROM THE GEOMETRICAL SHAPES,
PATTERNS, AND LINES. INSTEAD, ABSTRACTIONISTS
SHOWED WORKS THAT RANGED FROM REPRESENTATIONAL
ABSTRACTIONISM (OBJECTS OR SUBJECTS ARE STILL
PERCEIVED) TO PURE ABSTRACTIONISM (NO
RECOGNIZABLE OBJECT OR SUBJECT).
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4. STYLES
•CUBISM
•FUTURISM
•MECHANICAL STYLE
•NONOBJECTIVISM

5. CUBISM
•THE CUBIST STYLE WAS DERIVED FROM A 3D GEOMETRICAL FIGURE COMPOSED OF
STRICTLY MEASURED LINES, PLANES AND ANGLES. THUS, A CUBIST ART IS COMPOSED
OF PLANES, AND ANGLES OF FLAT SURFACE. PABLO PICASSO, A SPANISH PAINTER AND
SCULPTURE WAS AMONG THE KNOWN CUBISTS.
•IN EARLIER STYLE, SUBJECTS WERE DEPICTED IN A 3D MANNER, FORMED BY LIGHT
AND SHADOW. IT CONTRASTS THE CUBISTS, ANALYZED THEIR SUBJECT’S BASIC
GEOMETRICAL FORMS, AND BROKE THEM UP INTO A SERIES OF PLANES. THEN THEY
REASSEMBLED THESE PLANES, TILTING AND INTERLOCKING THEM IN DIFFERENT
WAYS.

7. FUTURISM
•IN 1900S, AN ART MOVEMENT CALLED FUTURISM EMERGED IN
ITALY. AS THE TERM IMPLIES, THE FUTURISTS CREATED ART FOR
A FAST-SPACED, MACHINE-PROPELLED AGE.
•THEY LIKED THE MOTION, FORCE SPEED AND STRENGTH OF
MECHANICAL FORMS. TAKE A LOOK AT THE WORK OF GINO
SEVERINI TITLED “ARMORED TRAIN.”

9. MECHANICAL STYLE
•MECHANICAL STYLE USES PLANES, CONES, SPHERES AND CYLINDERS -
ALL FIT TOGETHER EXACTLY AND NEATLY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES.
THIS IS VERY EVIDENT IN THE PAINTING OF FERNAND LEGER.
•MECHANICAL PARTS LIKE CRANKSHAFT, CYLINDER BLOCKS AND
PISTONS ARE BRIGHTENED ONLY BY THE USE OF PRIMARY COLORS. IF
NOT, THEY WOULD LOOK LIFELESS. HUMAN FIGURES ARE MERE OUTLINES,
RENDERED WITHOUT EXPRESSION.

11. NONOBJECTIVISM
•NONOBJECTIVISM EMERGED AS THE GEOMETRICAL STYLE OF
ABSTRACTION. DERIVED FROM ITS TERM “NON-OBJECT”, WORK UNDER
THIS STYLE DID NOT USE OBJECTS OR FIGURES.
•INSTEAD, THE STYLE USED LINES, SHAPES, AND COLORS IN A COOL,
IMPERSONAL APPROACH THAT AIMED TO BALANCE UNITY AND STABILITY.
BLACK AND WHITE WERE THE PRIMARY COLORS USED.
•PIET MONDRIAN WAS ONE OF THE WELL-KNOWN NONOBJECTIVISTS.