The document discusses the evolution of modern and contemporary art, highlighting their definitions, significant movements, and key characteristics. Modern art, spanning from the 1860s to the 1970s, focused on styles such as surrealism and abstraction, while contemporary art, emerging post-1960s, embraces diverse themes and experimental formats. Major movements like abstract expressionism, pop art, and conceptualism illustrate the shift from traditional to innovative artistic expressions.

1. CAUGHT IN BETWEEN: MODERN
AND CONTEMPORARY ART

2. What is Modern Art?
• Period that began in the 1880’s and lasted until 1960’s.
• Focused on surrealism rather than depicted life as perceived by the
church or influential in society.
• Denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era.
• The devotion of artist to a strict narrative was often illustrated in their
figurative works.
• Artist were committed to developing a language of their own original but
representative.
• It tends to find the pure idea of art.

3. What is Modern Art?
• Modern art is defined as artworks produced between the 1860s to the
1970s in modern styles. Modern art denotes one or more of the styles and
philosophies prevalent in the art produced during that era. Some. artwork
produced during this period followed more traditional or classical styles

4. What is Contemporary Art?
• Developed after 1960’s and still emerging.
• “present” “today” or “now”.
• Concerned about the purity in art.
• It was the idea that was more important than its visual articulation.
• It turns the traditional paintings and sculptures to more experimental
formats.

5. What is Contemporary Art?
• The term "contemporary art" refers to art made and produced by artists
living today. Today's artists work in and respond to a global environment
that is culturally diverse, technologically advancing, and multifaceted.
Contemporary modern art is often abstract,
experimental, and process-based. It also tends to make
use of new media such as photography, video, and
computer-generated imagery. Contemporary modern
artists often seek to challenge traditional values and
conventions, and their work can be provocative and
controversial.

6. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
1. Abstract expressionism (early 1940’s to mid 1960’s)
 Basic tenets of abstraction and combination in with gestural techniques,
mark making, and a rugged spontaneity in its visual articulation.
 Started in NewYork, hence also called NewYork School.

8. 2 Major Styles Emerged
ACTION PAINTING
 Showed physicality, direction
and most often the spontaneity
of the action that makes drips
and stokes possible
COLOR FIELD
 Emphasized the emotional
power of colors
 From vivid decorations to
more toned down transitions

9. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
2. OPTICAL ART “OP ART” (early 1960 onwards)
 Relied on creating illusion using colors, pattern, and other perspective
tricks.
 The optical art movement has been especially common in American art
since the1960s, but the style really traces back to the year 1839 and one
French chemist, Michel-Eugene Chevreul.

10. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
2. OPTICAL ART “OP ART” (early 1960 onwards)
 The father of Op art, Georges Seurat, the inventor of pointillism
(Spike, 2008).
 Op art offers something in post-Modern and contemporary art for
people who love powerful use of concepts like geometry, line, color, and
pattern.

12. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
3. KINETIC ART (early 1950’s onward)
 Harnessing the current and direction of wind.
 Predominantly sculptural, most were mobiles and even motor-drive
machines.
 Example of how art and technology can be brought together.

15. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
4. GUTAI (1950’s to 1970’s)
 Means embodiment and concreteness.
 The goal was not only to explore the materiality of the implements used
in the performance but also to hold a deeper desire to make sense of the
relationship between the body, movements, and the spirit of their
interaction during the process of creation.

18. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
5. MINIMALISM (early 1960’s)
 Seen as an extreme type of abstraction that favored geometric shapes,
colors field, and use of materials that had an “industrial” the sparse.
 Painters and sculptors avoided overt symbolism and emotional content,
but instead called attention to the materiality of the works.

21. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
6. POP ART (1950’s)
 It drew inspiration , sources, and even material from commercial culture,
making it one of the most identifiable and relatable movement in art
history.
 They turned to commodities designed and made for masses.
 The aimed was also elevate popular culture as something a par with fine
art.

23. Several Movement That Were Caught In
Between The Succession Of Modern
Contemporary Art
7. POST-MODERNISM (1970’s)
 Most pertinent movement that solidified the move to contemporary art.
 Included conceptual art, neo-expressionism, feminist art.

24. Other Contemporary Art Movements
1. NEO POP ART (1970’s)
 In the 1980’s AndyWarhol renewed an interest in pop art, but its
different from neo pop art because of the first ideas of Dada’ in which
ready made materials were used.
 Dada is a movement that was very much against the values of the
bourgeois, the colonial and even the national. It was both anarchic, the
war ensued because of the values, movements abhors or despises.

26. Other Contemporary Art Movements
2. PHOTOREALISM
 Painstaking attentions to detail is aimed, without the artist personal
style.
 Drawings and paintings are so immaculate in their precision that start to
look like it is photo without a direct reference to the artist who created
it.
 Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter – photorealist artists

28. Other Contemporary Art Movements
3. CONCEPTUALISM
 Informed and shaped by pop art.
 Fought against the idea that art is commodity.
 Brought about by art institutions such as museums and galleries where
works are peddled and circulated.
 Jenny Holzer, Damien Hirts, AiWeiWei – major conceptual artists

29. Other Contemporary Art Movements
4. PERFORMANCE ART
 Related to conceptual art, and began in the 1960’s
 Most concerned about the heart of artwork rather than with the
entertaining the audience.
 May be planned/spontaneous or live/recorded, it is durational in
nature and considered as ephemeral works of art.
 Marina Abramovic,Yoko Ono, and Joseph Beuys – rosters of well
known artists.

31. Other Contemporary Art Movements
5. INSTALLATION ART
 Is a kind of immersive works
 Large-scale, installation art makes use of a host of objects, materials,
conditions, and even light and aural components.
 Considered site-specific and may be temporary or ephemeral in nature.
 Allan Kaprow,Yayoi Kusama, and Dale Chihuly. – installation artists

33. Other Contemporary Art Movements
6. EARTH ART/LAND ART
 Considered as a kind or spin-off of installation
 It is kind of human intervention into a specific landscape or terrain.
 It is different from environmental art in a sense that it does not focus on
the subject but rather on landscape manipulation and the materials used
taken directly from the ground or vegetation.
 Robert Smithson, Christo, Richard Lond, Andy Goldsworthy, and
Jeanne-Claude.

35. Other Contemporary Art Movements
7. STREET ART
 It is by-product of the rise of graffiti in the 1980’s
 Artworks created are not traditional in formal but are informed by the
illustrative, painterly and print techniques and even a variety of media.
 Most commonly found in the public sphere, various people who access
to them have formed the impression and perception of the artworks
themselves.
 This art is unsanctioned and do not enjoy the invigilated environments
of museums and galleries.