Modern era major movements

1. Name :- Jagruti R Vasani
Sem :- 3
Roll No :- 15
Enrollment No:- 2069108420180054
Paper 9 :- The Modernist Literature
Email-Id :- jagrutivasani17@gmail.com
Submitted To :- Smt S.B. Gardi Department of English
Maharja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Major Movements of the
Modern Era

3. What is Modern Art?
It is a elastic term, which can be accommodate a variety of
meaning. “Modern Art” means works produced during 1870-
1970. This “Modern era” dominated by Renaissance-inspired
academic art, and network of European Academic of Fine Art.
“Contemporary Art”, which is called “Postmodern Art”. This
chromology accords with the view of many art critics and
institutions.

4. Major Movements of the Era
1.Impressionism
2.Fauvism
3.Cubism
4.Futurism
5.Expressionism
6.Dadaism
7.Surrealism
8.Abstract Expressionism
9.Pop Art

5. 1. Impressionism (1870s-1880s)
In this movement,exemplified by the
landscape painting of Claude
Monet,focused on capturing fleeting
moments of light and colour.
Introduced non-naturalist colour
schemes, loose-often highly textured
brushwork.

6. 2. Futurism (1909-1914)
Founded by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
glorified speed, technology, the
automobile, the airplane and scientific
achievement. It borrowed by heavily from
Neo-Impressionism and Italian
Divisionism, Cubism its fragmented forms
and multiple viewpoints.
Main contribution was to introduce
movement into the canvas, and to link
beauty with scientific advancement.

7. 3. Fauvism (1905-07)
Short lived, dramatic and highly influential, Led
by Henri Matisse, Fauvism was ‘The Fashionable’
style during the mid-1900 in paris. The new style
was launched at the salon d’ayromne, became
famous for its vivid,garish,non-naturalist colours
that made Impressionism appear almost
monochrome! A key precursor of expressionism.
History of Expressionalist painting(1880-1930)

8. 4. Surrealism (1924)
Founded in paris by writer Ander Breton
Surrealism was the fashionable art movement
of the inter war years, composed of abstract
and figurative wings, the nihilistic dada
movement, most of whose members
metamorphosed into surrealists, but unlike
dada it was neither anti-art nor political.

9. 5. Dadaism (1916-24)
The first anti-art movement, Dada was a
revolt against the system which had allowed
the carnage of the first world war.
Became an anarchistic tendency whose aim
was to subvert the arts establishment.
Launched in neutral Switzerland in 1916,its
leaders were in their early twenties, and most
had ‘opted out’, avoiding conscription in the
shelter of neutral cities such as New York,
Zurich and Barcelona.