Examples of Modern art

1. Samples from Art History
1950-modern day

2. Pop Art
- paintings or sculptures of mass culture
objects and media stars,
- Pop artists searched for traces of
trauma in the world of advertising,
cartoons, and popular imagery at large.
- Believed everything is interconnected,
and therefore sought to make those
connections literal in their artwork.
- Pop artists embraced the post-World
War II manufacturing and media boom
- The majority of Pop artists began their
careers in commercial art
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein

3. Neo-Geo
- Neo-Geo combines the aesthetics of
earlier abstract art forms like Pop Art,
Op Art and Minimalism with concepts
derived from continental philosophy.
- Neo-Geo artists played with notions of
authenticity in relation to it by, for
example, presenting mass-produced
objects as one-of-a-kind art objects.
- These paintings and objects were able
to be taken up as commodities by the
art market with relative ease and
several artists achieved rapid fame.
Peter Halley
Jeff Koons

4. Kinetic Sculpture
- Sculpture in which movement is a basic
element.
- The aim of most kinetic sculpture is to
make movement itself an integral part of
the design of the sculpture.
- Sculptures whose components are
moved by air currents, by water, by
magnetism, by electromechanical
devices, by the participation of the
spectator himself.
Alexander Calder
Martha Boto

5. COLOR FIELD PAINTING
The term typically describes large-scale canvases dominated by flat expanses of colour and
having a minimum of surface detail.
One of two major strains of the 20th-century art movement known as Abstract Expressionism or
the New York school.
Colour-field paintings have a unified single-image field and differ qualitatively from the gestural,
expressive brushwork.
Source:https://www.britannica.com/art/colour-field-painting

6. COLOR FIELD PAINTING
Helen Frankenthaler
Frankenthaler’s stained paintings perfectly
embodied Greenberg’s formalist direction by
making surface and colour inseparable. She
literally soaked the unprimed canvas with
pigment, creating fields of amorphous colour.
Source:https://www.britannica.com/art/colour-field-painting

7. COLOR FIELD PAINTING
Title: Summer Picture (1959)
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Technique: Oil, crayon and collage
on paper
Dimensions: Not found

8. BAY AREA FIGURATIVE ART
A movement of mid-20th-century American artists based in San Francisco who abandoned the dominant
Abstract Expressionist style of the period and returned to figuration.
The four artists initially associated with the term were David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, and
James Weeks, who shifted away from the influences of the area’s prominent abstract painters.
Source:https://www.artsy.net/gene/bay-area-figurative-art
The application of Abstract Expressionist technique to realistic subject matter, it was a style of painting
prevalent in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California from the 1940s to 1960s.
The movement was a reaction to the popular Abstract Expressionism in New York. In the Bay area style,
images were still quite abstract and painted with much expressionist style, but there was a rejection of total
abstraction
Source:https://www.askart.com/art/Styles/41/y/Bay%20Area%20Figurative

9. BAY AREA FIGURATIVE ART
David Park
Title: Four Women 1959
Technique: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 57 x 75 3/8 in.
Source:http://www.hackettmill.com/artists/david-park
Park's abandonment of pure
abstraction was fostered by a
dissatisfaction with what he perceived
to be the egocentric excesses of
Abstract Expressionist artists. Thus, he
introduced the style that would later be
known as Bay Area Figurative Painting.

10. Funk Art
Origin Of The Name
The romantic version of Funk Art's etymology says it came from jazz music,
where "funky" was a term of approbation. Jazz is also perceived as unrefined and
-- especially with late '50s free jazz -- unorthodox.
Art Movement
The movement got its start in the San Francisco Bay area, specifically at the
University of California
Funk Art's heyday was in the mid- to late-1960s. Naturally, its beginnings were
much earlier; the (very) late-1950s seem to be the point of origin. By the end of
the 1970s, things were pretty much over as far as artistic movements go.
The Key Characteristics of Funk Art
Found and everyday objects
Autobiographical subjects
(Frequently inappropriate) humor
Audience engagement
Elevation of ceramics
Source:https://www.thoughtco.com/funk-art-art-history-183308

11. Art Brut (Raw Art)
➔ Invented by Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
➔ Refers to a range of art forms outside the conventional dictates
of the art world.
➔ Spontaneous expressionism inspired childlike drawings,
graffiti scribblings and signs
➔ Crude, inexperienced, and even obscene
➔ Convey a sense of teeming life and brutal force
➔ Without any sense of composition or clear aesthetic
characteristics
➔ La Collection de l’Art Brut in the Swiss city of Lausanne
Scottie Wilson (1889–1972) , Jean-Pierre Van Honsebrouck (1960- now)

12. Photo Realism
➔ Beginning in 1968–69
➔ Near-microscopic detail
➔ Photograph as the primary visual reference
➔ Focus on surface, such as glass, reflections, or the effects of light
➔ Importance of process and deliberate planning
➔ breaking down hierarchies by including everyday scenes of
commercial life
➔ Used an airbrush to reproduce the effect of a photo printed on
glossy paper
➔ Robert Bechtle (1932- now), Robert Cottingham(1935-now)

13. New Realism
➔ Founded in 1960 by the painter Yves Klein
(1928-62)
➔ Dissolved in 1970
➔ Challenge traditional art forms and materials
➔ Focus on found objects to reflect and express the
reality of their time
➔ Use of collage and assemblage as well as painting.
➔ Idea that art had to elevate, politicize, or idealize
any subject.
➔ Way of bringing life and art closer together
➔ Yves Klein (1928-62) , Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006)

14. Abstract Expressionism
First developed in the
1940s-1950s by
american painters it is
a term given to new
forms of abstract art
characterized by
gestural brushstrokes
and mark-making as
well as the impression
of spontaneity
Willem de Kooning
The Visit 1966–7

15. Graffiti Art
One of the most radical
contemporary art
movements, graffiti art
commonly refers to
decorative imagery applied
by paint or other means to
buildings, public transport
or other property.
REYES

16. PATTERN AND DECORATION.
● Late 1970s.
● Ornamental or visually luxuriant
two-dimensional designs.
● Some have representational elements, but
abstract compositions are still present.
● Prevailing minimalism and conceptual art.
(Girouard,1991)

17. NAÏVE ART
● Childlike simplicity of execution and vision.
● Break the traditional system of art.
● Modern primitives.
● Simple, unaffected, and unsophisticated.
● No formal training in art school or
academy.
(Rousseau, 1907)

18. PUBLIC
ART
● Can be abstract or realistic (or both).
● Any media can be used, the only requirement is that is
displayed publicly.
● How it is made, where it is, and what it means.
● Community values, enhance our environment, transform a
landscape, heighten our awareness, or question our
assumptions.
● The value of community or a collective.
(Koons, 2007)

20. Art
appropriation
● To "appropriate" is to take
possession of something.
● Appropriation artists
deliberately copy images to
take possession of them in
their art.
● They are not stealing or
plagiarizing, nor are they
passing off these images as
their very own.
● want the viewer to recognize
the images they copy

21. Feminist art ● late 1960
● Feminist artists sought to rewrite a
falsely male-dominated art history as
well as change the contemporary
world around them through their art,
focusing on intervening in the
established art world and the art
canon's legacy, as well as in
everyday social interactions. As artist
Suzanne Lacy declared, the goal of
Feminist art was to "influence cultural
attitudes and transform stereotypes."
Feminist art created opportunities and
spaces that previously did not exist
for women and minority artists, as
well as paved the path for the Identity
art and Activist art of the 1980s.

22. Print revival ● When since the late 1950
● Where the United States

23. Performance Art
● New form of Contemporary Art
○ Late 1960s and 70s
○ Postmodernist Art
● Performances (live)
○ Includes, dance or any contemporary art
Artists: Marina Abramovic
James Lee Byers
Alan Kaprow

24. Dadaism (Dada Art) -
● Art movement in the early 20th century
○ Europe, Zurich Switzerland
● Conceptual Art movement
● Artists:
○ Salvador Dali
○ Marcel Duchamp
○ Tristan Tzara

25. Bibliography
● Gersh-Nesic, Beth. "What Is Appropriation Art?" ThoughtCo, Aug. 22, 2019,
thoughtco.com/appropriation-appropriation-art-183190.

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https://www.theartstory.org/movement/photorealism/
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http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/nouveau-realisme.htm
https://www.theartstory.org/movement/nouveau-realisme/
Girouard, T. (1991). ERZULIE [Sequins, beads, fabriq]. New Orleans:
New Orleans Museum of Art.
Koons, J. (2007). Balloon Dog and Sacred Heart [Stainless steel].
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