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Modern Art
Rejecting the past
Expressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Dada
Surrealism
Abstract Art
Pop Art
Minimalism
Early Expressionism
• Style that portrayed emotions through
distorting form and color
• Edvard Munch
– Mental illness, depression
– Said he would never want to cast of his
illness
– Aimed to induce strong reactions in his
viewers
Munch
Vampire
The
Scream
Puberty
Fauvism
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1904-1908
Explosion of color, exaggerated and vibrant
Disregard for true/actual color
“as if gremlins seized the color knob on the tv”
Influenced by non-European tribal art of the
colonies
• Leader: Matisse
Matisse
Blue Nude
Derain Purple Bridge
Cubism
• Break down of objects into a multitude of
geometric shapes
• Stuck between representation and abstract
• Life through a fly’s eye
Braque
Fishing
Boats
Juan Gris
Portrait of
Picasso
Picasso
Italian Girl
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
• His mother said, “If you become a soldier,
you’ll be a general. If you become a monk,
you’ll end up as the Pope.” He said, “I
became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
• Painted around 50,000 pieces
• Notorious for relationships with women
• Children from many women
Pablo Picasso
• Early Works
• Blue Phase
• Rose Phase
• Analytical Cubism
• Synthetic Cubism
• Late Works
Answers
Analytical
Cubism
Blue Period
Synthetic
Cubism
Early Works
Late Works
Analytical
Cubism
Rose
Period
Late Works
Blue Period
Synthetic
Cubism
Expressionism
1905-1930
• Art should express the artist’s feelings
rather than images of the real world
• Distorted, exaggerated forms and color
• Began with van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch
• Dark colors and woodcuts relay sadness of
war
Kathe
Kollwitz
Poverty
Nolde
Wildly
Dancing
Children
What is art?
Come up with a definition for art.
What isn’t art?
Abstract Art
• Began with Kandinsky in 1919
• Post WWII to 80’s
• Abandon any reference to recognizable
reality
• No subject
• Color can convey emotion even without
content
• Founder: Kandinsky
Kandinsky
Improvisation
31
Black Spot I
Mondrian
Composition A:
Composition with
Black, Red, Gray,
Yellow, and Blue
Used only
primary colors
and non-colors
Dada Art
• 1916-1923
• Got its name from nonsense
– French for hobby horse
• Protested the madness of war
• Founded by WWI refugees
• Strategy was to denounce and shock
Duchamp
Fountain
Duchamp
Mona Lisa
with
moustache
Surrealism
• 1920’s and 1930’s
• Implies going beyond realism
• Painted the bizarre and irrational to express
truths
• Defy common sense
• Looks like a dream-world
Joan Miro
1893-1983
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Invented unique biomorphic images
Geometric shapes and amoeba-like blobs
Colorful, playful
“Cartoon from another planet”
The
Policeman
Dutch
Interior I
Chagall
I and the
Village
Salvador Dali
1904-1989
• Exploited his own personality quirks
• Fears: bugs, crossing streets, trains, boats,
airplanes, Metro, buying shoes in public
• Actual objects but distorted
• Had the canvas next to his bed and woke to paint
dreamscapes
• Disliked by some because of his fascination with
Hitler
• Pulled publicity stunts
– Gave speech with foot in pail of milk
– Press conference with lobster on his head
– Wore a diving suit and lectured but no one could hear
him and he started to asphyxiate himself
The Persistence of Memory
Crucifixion
Portrait of
Paul Eluard
Weaning of Furniture-Nutrition
Cannibalism
in Autumn
Rene Magritte
1898-1967
Le siècle des
lumières
The Century of
Lights
Matisse Threatening Weather
Abstract Expressionism
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Also called action painting
40’s-50’s
Came out of the jazz era’s lack of form
No longer was art required to be a visual
representation of some object
• Jackson Pollock=Jack the Dripper (1912-1956)
– Paint Hard, Live Hard
– Died drunk in a car crash-age 44
Jackson
Pollock
Eyes in the
Heat
Lavender Mist
Minimalists
• Color Field
– Huge canvases of color
– Representations of feelings and ideas
• Hard Edge
– Calculated, simple forms
– Colors in harmony
Color Field
Rothko
1968
Rothko
White Center
Hard Edge
Kelly Elsworth
Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
Frank Stella
Harran II
Pop Art
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1950 ‘s and 1960’s
Derived from the word popular
Used everyday items as inspiration for art
Soup cans and comic strips
Mass produced
Pope of Pop: Andy Warhol
– 6 hour movie called Sleep
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Go for Baroque
You, the Artist
Use objects in your backpack,
purse, or pockets to create
something that someone would
consider Pop or Minimal Art.