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The Nineteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century
▪ Subjects were chosen from everyday life. Like a village girl, a peasant
family at dinner, the sick, the poor.
▪ Some Realist pictures peasants appear as dour shapes against a distant
horizon, the shadowed hollow of their eyes being as expressionless as
the pose of their figure.
▪ A number of paintings resemble contemporary photography in their
flat tones.
▪ Relative absence of modelling.
▪ Strong contrast of light and shade.
▪ Solid paint is applied with a palette knife.
▪ Nude figures in mythological settings were acceptable. The shocked
came naked women were portrayed in a contemporary and familiar
settings. To heighten the sense of realism other people in this picture
wore modern, everyday clothes.
▪ Artist paintings out of doors became increasingly aware of the
different light affects caused by the changes in weather.
MANET OLYMPIA
▪ Many of their picture’s artist conveyed the life of the poor and outcast
in big cities.
▪ Violent expectation was taken to some of their paintings.
▪ Particularly those in which Laboure’s were seen neglecting their
duties to engage in a little love making or a brief celebration.
▪ One of the main characteristics of naturalism belief that man behave
in accordance the laws of nature.
MANET OLYMPIA
For this painting, Paul Cézanne wisely chose a palette consisting mostly of
blues and greens, colors that he included in the water in order to reflect the
landscape. The effect, together with his skillful brushstrokes, produced an
amplified crispness of the lake in the morning. A touch of soft yellows
gives warmth to the glow of an early sunrise as it strikes the tree trunk to
the left of the canvas, as well as some selected spots in the hilly landscape
and the buildings at the far side of the lake.
Even though the various broad and short brushstrokes in the background
unite the tree’s foliage and the ground’s grasses with the hills across the
lake, a particular curvature to his technique creates separation and distance
between them. This system of brushstrokes, while at first glance appears to
be somewhat harsh, was to eventually become a prominent feature of his
later art works. Cézanne once said that his intention was to bring “harmony
parallel to nature”, a statement especially true of ‘Lake Annecy.’
Georges Seurat
The 20th century saw the greatest revolution in the history of western
painting.
Artist freed themselves from the restrictions of traditional painting and set
themselves aims which had attempt never before.
The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed
approximately halfway through the 20th century and art made afterward is
generally called contemporary art.
Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with
modernism in the late nineteenth century. ... Dadaism, with its most
notable exponents, Marcel Duchamp, who rejected conventional art styles
altogether by exhibiting found objects, notably a urinal, and too Francis
Picabia, with his Portraits Mécaniques.
Characteristic of Cubism
The main characteristics of Synthetic Cubism were the use of mixed
media and collage and the creation of a flatter space than with
analytical cubism. Other characteristics were a greater use of colour and
greater interest in decorative effects.A cubist painter saw an object by
contrast, believed that to give a true representation of an object. If they
wanted to draw a musical instrument, not only from the front, but also from
each of the other three sides.
Around 1912, the Cubists' focuses started to change, and a new style
of Cubism emerged. Where Analytical Cubism features dense and
complicated patterns of overlapping planes, Synthetic Cubism focuses
instead on brighter colors, much simpler shapes, and lighter lines.
Synthetic Cubism is a period in the Cubism art movement that lasted from
1912 until 1914. Led by two famous Cubist painters, it became a popular
style of artwork that includes characteristics like simple shapes, bright
colors, and little to no depth.
Characteristic of Dadaism
Dada art is nonsensical to the point of whimsy. Almost all of the people
who created it were ferociously serious, though. Abstraction and
Expressionism were the main influences on Dada, followed by Cubism
and, to a lesser extent, Futurism.
Dada art
Rayonnism Art
Characteristic of Neo-Plasticism
Mondrian's new art was based upon fundamental principles, as follows:
Only geometric shapes may be used; ignore natural form and colour. Main
compositional elements to be straight lines or rectangular areas. Choose
only primary colours (red, blue, yellow), plus black, grey and white.
The painters used only five colors. Black, white, yellow, blue and red.
The vertical lines represent the male and the horizontal the female.
MONDRIAN Composition
Characteristic of Expressionism
Expressionist art tried to convey emotion and meaning rather than reality.
Each artist had their own unique way of "expressing" their emotions in their
art. In order to express emotion, the subjects are often distorted or
exaggerated. At the same time colors are often vivid and shocking.
The Blue Rider, or Der Blaue Reiter, as the title was called in German, was
one of Kandisky's last works in impressionism, but contains grains of
abstractionism.The painting is quite grainy, which is the first impression
received on looking at it. The background appears to be vast with forests
stretching out into the distance. The foreground is a beautiful meadow,
bright with the lushness of green grass. Speeding across this landscape is a
lone man on a white horse. The rider is wearing a blue coat or cloak, from
which the name of the painting probably derives. It is however believed by
some art theorists that the painting might have had a different name
originally, since the title has been discovered to be overwritten over
something else.