This document discusses modern art from the 20th century to present day. It provides objectives about identifying various art forms from this era and relating them to religion and life. It explains that modern art includes innovative styles, movements, and techniques. Examples are given, such as Juan Gris's collage technique influencing Cubism. Characteristics of modern art mentioned are its diversity of styles, use of new materials, and attempts to redefine what art can be through concepts and performances.

1. Modern Art and Life
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Objectives:
1. Identify the Arts created from the 20th century up to the present
2. Relate the 20th and century art to religion and life in general
3. Explain the meaning of some forms of arts that reflects present-day
life
4. Create examples of the art based on one’s knowledge of modern
art and culture

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5. What is Modern Art?
 The term of Modern art refers to the arts of
the 20th century in Europe, America and in
other regions under Western influence.
Modern painting, sculpture, architecture, and
other form of 20th-century art can be
described as innovative. Modern art
comprises a remarkable diversity of styles,
movements, and techniques.
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6. Juan Gris: Breakfast
Spanish-born French
artist Juan Gris’s innovative use of
collage in the first decades of
the 20th century influenced the
development of Synthetic Cubism,
which involved constructing
paintings and drawings from
shapes cut out of paper. Breakfast
is in the collection of the Musée
National d’Art Moderne, Paris,
France.
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7. What is the 20th century’s most important
contribution to the history of art?
 Among the 20th century’s most important
contribution to the history of art is the
introduction of a wide range of new artistic
techniques and materials. Many artists in the
20th century made used of concepts, materials
or techniques that were never before
associated with art. As a result, many people
associate modern art with what is radical,
innovative and shocking.
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8. Man Crossing the Street
Swiss artist Alberto
Giacometti’s elongated
bronze figures convey a
sense of isolation. Man
Crossing the Street, from
1949, is in the Kunsthaus
in Zύrich, Switzerland.
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9. What are the characteristics
of modern art?
 Modern art comprises a remarkable diversity
of styles, movements, and techniques. The
wide range of styles encompasses realistic
styles of abstract styles. It is in the modern
period that artists have made paintings not
only of traditional material such as oil on
canvass, but of any material available to them.
This innovation led to developments that were
even more radical, such as conceptual and
performance art—movements that expanded
the definition of art to include not just physical
objects but ideas and action as well .
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10. Suprematism
 Attempting to reduce art to its purest
essence. Russian artist Kasimir
Malevich remove all outside references
from his paintings, creating completely
non-objective works. His radical
abstraction, known as Suprematism,
was completed around 1916 and is in
the collection of the Museum of Fine
Arts in Krasnodar, Russia.
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11.  Some claims that modern art by nature
is rebellious and that this rebellion is
most evident in the quest for originality
and a continual desire to shock. The
term avant-garde, which is often applied
to modern art, comes from a French
military term meaning ’’advance guard’’,
and suggests that what is modern is
what is new, original, or cutting edge
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12. Recumbent figure
Although abstract, the sculptures of
relining nudes by British artists Henry
Moore retain recognizable human
forms. With their soft curves and
hollows, these figures bear a
resemblance to landscapes, and they
recall the art of many earlier periods.
Recumbent Figure(1938) is at the
Tate Gallery in London, England.
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13. •The most important characteristic of modern art is its attempt to make
to make painting and sculpture the ends in themselves. Unlike earlier
forms of art that were used to convey ideas of powerful religious
institutions, art during this period is used solely for artistic purposes.
Modern art’s celebration for this ‘’art for art’s sake’’ theory was initiated
by French artists associated with Impressionism. It includes Edouard
Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot. These
Impressionists abandoned direct references to religious and historical
subjects. Instead, they painted scenes of everyday life, especially life in
local bars and theaters.
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14. What is unique about modern art?
Many artists in the 20th century tried to
redefine what art means. In other words,
they attempted to expand the definition
of art to include concepts, materials, or
techniques that were never before
associated with art. Some examples are
the following.
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15. 1.In 1917, for example, French
artist Marcel Duchamp
exhibited everyday, mass-produced,
utilitarian objets-including
a bicycle wheel and
a urinal-as works of art.
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16. Bicycle wheel
 French-born artist Marcel
Duchamp the course of
modern art in 1913 bi
exhibiting a bicycle turned
upside down and mounted on
a kitchen stool. Bicycle Wheel
was the 1st of duchamp’s so-called
“readymades,” ordinary
objects that he turned into
objects of art by changing their
context and exhibiting them as
sculpture.Shown here is a
1964 replica of the original,
which is now lost.
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17. 2. In the 1950s and 1960s,
American artist Allan Kaprow
used his own body as an artistic
medium in spontaneous
performances that he declared to
be at works.
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3. In the 1970s, American
earthwork artist Robert
Smithson used unaltered
elements of the environment-earth,
rock, and water-as
materials for his sculptural
pieces.
Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson was one of the pioneering
artists of the earthworks movement of the 196s and 1970s.
In Spiral Jetty (1970), one of the best- known earthworks
,Smithson explored time and entropy- the tendency toward
disorder in nature. Spiral Jetty, a narrow coil of black rock
edge in salt, extends about 460m (500 yds) into the Great
Salt Lake of Utah and is periodically submerged by water.