Transcript The Moderns - Western Hills Choir

The Moderns
l’art pour l’art
art for art’s sake…
Basics about the era
• 1850 to 1900
• Art needs no justification (a reflection
of aestheticism a philosophy which is a
reaction to utilitarianism)
• Artists work for themselves and for
their own artistic values
• Invention of photography introduces
a new art form
Realism
Gustave Courbet
A style based on The Stormy Sea (1869)
the theory that
the method of
artistic
presentation
should be true
to life.
Jean-Francois Millet
The Gleaners (1857)
Realism
Faithful
representation
of reality.
Honore Daumier
Third Class Carriage
My effort has been to
give the human touch
"which makes the
whole world kin" and
which ever remains the
same. - H.O. Tanner
The Banjo Lesson
1893
Impressionism
An approach
that evokes
subjective and
sensory
impressions,
including
mood.
Claude Monet
Water Lilies
Claude Monet
(1840-1926)
Regarded as the
archetypal Impressionist
in that his devotion to
the ideals of the
movement was
unwavering throughout
his long career.It is
fitting that one of his
pictures, Impression:
Sunrise
gave the group his
name.
Regatta at Argenteuil
(1872)
La Japonaise
(1876)
Claude Monet was
facinated with
Japanese art. He
collected Japanese
prints and was
influenced by their
style.
The Japanese Bridge
(c. 1918)
Vincent VanGogh
(1853 – 1890)
• Possibly the greatest Dutch
painter after Rembrandt
• He influenced the current
of modern art.
• His work was produced
during a period of only 10
years. He uses striking
colour, coarse brushwork,
and contoured forms.
• He suffered from mental
illness that eventually
resulted in suicide.
The Starry Night (1889)
The Church
at Auverssur-Oise
(1890)
Still Life of
Sun Flowers
Paul Cezanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire
(1900)
All of his objects are full of life: "We may
think that a sugar bowl doesn't have a body or
a soul. But it changes everyday. You have to
get to know it, to earn its trust..."
James
Whistler
Arrangement in Grey
and Black
1871
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Why shouldn't
art be pretty?
There are
enough
unpleasant
things in the
world.
The Luncheon of the Boating Party
1881
The Umbrellas (1886)
Renoir was attempting to move away
from the Impressionist style, to a
structural one. He met Paul Cezanne. The
Umbrellas very clearly exemplifies this
period in Renoir’s life, and is two
paintings in one; the figures on the right
are painted in the Impressionist style,
while those on the left as well as the
umbrellas show the attempt to use the
new style and form.
Post-Impressionsism
A diverse art style
in which the
essentials of
perception are
portrayed through
concentration on
light, atmosphere
and color.
Paul Gaugin
The Women of Tahiti (1893)
Expressionism
A visual and
performace style
that seeks to
express the artists
emotions rather
than accurately
represent line or
form.
Wassily Kandinsky
Autumn in Bavaria (1908)
Cubism
A style that violates
the usual concepts of
two and three
dimensional space and
involves use of
geometric shapes.
Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973)
We all know that Art is
not truth. Art is a lie
that makes us realize
the truth, at least the
truth that is given to us
to understand.”
The Old Guitarist (1904)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
(1910)
Picasso invited the viewer to examine the
figures and shapes that he broke down and
recombined in totally new ways. In this
portrait, the subject, Daniel-Henry
Kahnweiler, a dealer who championed
Picasso’s radical new style, has been fractured
into various planes and shapes, and is
presented from several points of view. From
flickering, partially transparent planes of
brown, gray, black, and white emerges his
upper torso, hands clasped in his lap.