The document discusses the evolution of modern art from the 1860s to the 1970s, highlighting major movements such as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and their key characteristics. It outlines influential artists, including Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, and describes how their works shifted towards new methods of expression, culminating in styles like Expressionism, Cubism, and Abstractionism. Additionally, it covers the rise of contemporary art forms like installation and performance art, emphasizing their impact on viewer experience.

1. QUARTER I: MODERN ART

2. Modern artists experimented with
new ways of seeing and with fresh
ideas about the nature of materials
and functions of art.

3. Modern art includes artistic work produced
during the period extending roughly from
the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the
styles and philosophies of the art
produced during that era.

6. IMPRESSIONISM:
ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT
Impressionism was an
art movement that
emerged in the second
half of the 19th century
among a group of Paris-
based artists.

7. IMPRESSIONISM
The name impressionism
was coined from the title
of a work by French
painter Claude Monet,
Impression, soleil levant
(in English, Impression,
Sunrise).

8. IMPRESSIONISM
The term precisely
captured what this group
of artists sought to
represent in their works:
the viewer’s momentary
“impression” of an image.

9. THE INFLUENCE OF DELACROIX
Impressionism owed its
inspiration to earlier
masters. One major
influence was the work
of French painter Eugène
Delacroix.

10. EUGÈNE DELACROIX
Delacroix was admired by
impressionist artist for his use
of expressive brushstrokes,
his emphasis on movement
rather than on clarity of form,
and most of all his study of
the optical effects of color.

11. DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF
IMPRESSIONISM
1. Color and Light
• Short broken strokes
• Pure unmixed colors side
by side
• Freely brushed colors
(convey visual effect)

12. DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF
IMPRESSIONISM
2. Everyday Subjects
- Scenes of life
- Household objects
- Landscapes and Seascapes
- Houses, Cafes, Buildings

13. DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF
IMPRESSIONISM
3. Painting Outdoors
• The impressionists found
that they could best
capture the ever-changing
effects of light on color by
painting outdoors in
natural light.

14. DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS OF
IMPRESSIONISM
4. Open Composition
• They experimented with
unusual visual angles, sizes
of objects that appeared out
of proportion, off-center
placement, and empty
spaces on the canvas.

15. FAMOUS IMPRESSIONIST ARTIST

16. • was one of the first 19th
century artists to depict
modern-life subjects.
• He was a key figure in
the transition from
realism to
impressionism.

17. EDUARD MANET WORKS

18. • He was one of the
founders of the
impressionist movement
• He was considered the
most influential figure in
the movement.

19. • Monet is best known for
his landscape paintings,
particularly those
depicting his beloved
flower gardens and
water lily ponds at his
home in Giverny.

20. CLAUDE MONET WORKS

21. • was one of the central
figures of the
impressionist movement.
• His early works were
snapshots of real life, full
of sparkling color and
light.

22. • Renoir broke away from
the impressionist
movement to apply a
more disciplined, formal
technique to portraits of
actual people and figure
paintings.

23. AUGUSTE RENOIR WORKS

24. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Post-Impressionist artist
expanded and experimented with
these in bold new ways, like using
a geometric approach, fragmenting
objects and distorting people’s
faces and body parts, and applying
colors that were not necessarily
realistic or natural.

25. FAMOUS POST-IMPRESSIONIST ARTIST

26. • His work exemplified the
transition from late 19th-
century impressionism to
a new and radically
different world of art in
the 20th century.

27. PAUL CEZANNE WORKS

28. • His works were remarkable
for their strong, heavy
brush strokes, intense
emotions, and colors that
appeared to almost pulsate
with energy.
• his works become one
among the most recognized
in the world.

29. VINCENT VAN GOGH WORKS

31. Expressionist artists created
works with more emotional
force, rather than with
realistic or natural images.
EXPRESSIONISM
EXPRESSIONISM
they used distorted
outlines, applied strong
colors, and exaggerated
forms.

32. They worked more with their
imagination and feelings
EXPRESSIONISM

33. Among the various styles that arose within
the expressionist art movements were:
• neoprimitivism
• fauvism
• dadaism
• surrealism
• social realism

34. • was an art style that
incorporated elements
from the native arts of
the South Sea Islanders
and the wood carvings of
African tribes which
suddenly became popular
at that time.

35. • Among the Western
artists who adapted
these elements was
Amedeo Modigliani.
• He used oval faces and
elongated shapes of
African art in both his
sculptures and paintings.

36. • Its name was derived from
les fauves (“wild beasts”),
referring to the group of
French expressionist
painters who painted in this
style.
• Fauvism was a style that
used bold, vibrant colors
and visual distortions.

37. • Henri Matisse,
French painter who
was the leader of the
Fauvist movement
about 1900.

39. • was a style characterized
by dream fantasies,
memory images, and visual
tricks and surprises.
• They chose the child’s
term for hobbyhorse,
dada, to refer to their new
“non-style.”

41. • the movement arose
from the pain that a
group of European
artists felt after the
suffering brought by
World War I.

42. • his signature images of
empty plazas

43. • Surrealism was a style that
depicted an illogical,
subconscious dream world
beyond the logical,
conscious, physical one.
• Its name came from the
term “super realism,”

44. • Many surrealist works
depicted morbid or gloomy
subjects, as in those by
Salvador Dali. Others were
quite playful and even
humorous, such as those by
Paul Klee and Joan Miro.

47. • artists used their works
to protest against the
injustices, inequalities,
immorality, and ugliness
of the human condition.

48. • Ben Shahn’s Miners’
Wives, for example,
spoke out against the
hazardous conditions
faced by coal miners,
after a tragic accident
killed 111 workers in
Illinois in 1947.

49. Pablo Picasso’s
Guernica has been
recognized as the
most monumental
and comprehensive
statement of social
realism against the
brutality of war.

50. Guernica combined
artistic elements of
exaggeration, distortion,
and shock technique of
expressionism.
At the same time, it had
elements of the
emerging style that
would later be known as
cubism.

51. ABSTRACTIONISM

52. It had the same spirit of
freedom of expression
and openness that
characterized life in the
20th century, but it
differed from
expressionism in certain
ways.

53. • While expressionism
was emotional,
abstractionism was
logical and rational.
• It involved analyzing,
detaching, selecting,
and simplifying.

54. • cubism
• futurism
• mechanical style
• non-objectivism

55. • The cubist style
derived its name from
the cube, a three-
dimensional geometric
figure composed of
strictly measured lines,
planes, and angles
•

56. • Human figures as well
were often
represented with facial
features and body
parts shown both
frontally and from a
side angle at once.
•

57. • the futurists created
art for a fast-paced,
machine-propelled
age.
• They admired the
motion, force, speed, and
strength of mechanical
forms.

58. • In this style, basic forms
such as planes, cones,
spheres, and cylinders
all fit together precisely
and neatly in their
appointed places.

59. • From the very term “non-
object,” works in this
style did not make use of
figures or even
representations of
figures.

60. • Lines, shapes, and
colors were used in a
cool, impersonal
approach that aimed for
balance, unity, and
stability.

62. • They use of easily recognizable
objects and images from the
emerging consumer society
• Their inspirations were the
celebrities, advertisements,
billboards, and comic strips that
were becoming commonplace at
that time.

63. • Roy Lichtenstein (1923-
1997) was an American
pop artist. During the
1960s, along with Andy
Warhol, Jasper Johns,
and James Rosenquist
among others, he became
a leading figure in this
new art movement

65. • a form of “action painting,”
with the action taking
place in the viewer’s eye.
• In op art, lines, spaces, and
colors were precisely
planned and positioned to
give the illusion of
movement.

69. • Installation art is a
contemporary art
form that uses
sculptural materials
and other media to
modify the way the
viewer experiences
a particular space.

70. • Materials used in
today’s installation art
range from everyday
items and natural
materials to new media
such as video, sound,
performance, and
computers.

75. • Performance art is a
form of modern art
in which the actions
of an individual or a
group at a particular
place and in a
particular time
constitute the work.

76. • It can be any
situation that
involves four basic
elements:
• Time
• Space
• The performer’s body
• a relationship between
performer and audience.

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