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COLLEGE DEPARTMENT
Code : GE 3
Course Description : Art Appreciation
Semester : 1st Semester / S.Y. 2022-2023
Instructor : JAY L. CAMUÑAS, MAEd
Course : Bachelor of Secondary Education
Major in English-1B
Students : Kristine Mae C. Maguindayao
Jerome Mondigo
Andrea May Madera
Leah Marqueses
Date : October 30, 2022.
Contact No. : 09101289940
I. Title of Report
DIFFERENT ART MOVEMENTS
PHILOSOPHICAL IMPORT OF ART
-integrity
-proportion/consonance
-radiance/clarity
II. Objectives
To identify different art movements.
To nurture the current knowledge of students regarding art movements.
To enhance and develop the interests and skills of students.
To put into practice the concept of arts.
III. Preliminary Activities
Prayer
Greetings
Discussion
V. Discussion
Art Movement
Art movement is a tendency or a style of art with a particularly specified
objective and philosophy that is adopted and followed by a group of artists
during a specific period that may span from a few months to years or even
decades. It also refers to when a large number of artists that are alive at the
same time collectively adopt a certain, uniquely distinguishable form or style of
art that can be held apart from contemporary styles and methods. This method
then becomes immensely popular and goes on to define an entire generation
of artists.
Art movements usually begin because something will trigger the art movement
due to a specific time or place. This will usually be based on the artist’s
interest or even some political movement or changes in society.
IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based
on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in
a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of
everyday life.
The first group exhibition was in Paris in 1874 and included work by
Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne. The work shown was
greeted with derision with Monet’s Impression, Sunrise particularly singled out for
ridicule and giving its name (used by critics as an insult) to the movement. Seven
further exhibitions were then held at intervals until 1886.
Claude Monet
Woman Seated on a Bench (c.1874)
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
1867
Claude Monet French
La Grenouillère
1869
Claude Monet
SURREALISM
The word ‘surrealist’ (suggesting ‘beyond reality’) was coined by the French
avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to a play performed in 1917. But it
was André Breton, leader of a new grouping of poets and artists in Paris, who, in his
Surrealist Manifesto (1924), defined surrealism as:
pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in
writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of
thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic
and moral preoccupation.
Many surrealist artists have used automatic drawing or writing to unlock ideas and
images from their unconscious minds. Others have wanted to depict dream worlds or
hidden psychological tensions. Surrealist artists have also drawn inspiration from
mysticism, ancient cultures and Indigenous art and knowledges as a way of imagining
alternative realities.
The movement’s aspiration towards the liberation of the mind as well as the
liberation of artistic expressions has also meant seeking political freedom. In many
instances, these artists have turned to political activism. In this way, the revolutionary
concepts encouraged by Surrealism has led the movement to be seen as a way of life.
Since its inception, the ideas and art associated with Surrealism have been
disseminated, embraced and re-imagined through international networks of exchange
and collaboration. Surrealism's core ideas and themes have been adapted and deemed
relevant to different historical, geographical and cultural contexts, enabling it to be
expressed through plural voices.
Cubism was one of the most influential styles of the twentieth century. It is
generally agreed to have begun around 1907 with Picasso’s celebrated painting
Demoiselles D’Avignon which included elements of cubist style. The name ‘cubism’
seems to have derived from a comment made by the critic Louis Vauxcelles who, on
seeing some of Georges Braque’s paintings exhibited in Paris in 1908, described them
as reducing everything to ‘geometric outlines, to cubes’.
Cubism opened up almost infinite new possibilities for the treatment of visual
reality in art and was the starting point for many later abstract styles including
constructivism and neo-plasticism.
By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas – or planes – the artists
aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space and so
suggest their three-dimensional form. In doing so they also emphasized the two-
dimensional flatness of the canvas instead of creating the illusion of depth. This marked
a revolutionary break with the European tradition of creating the illusion of real space
from a fixed viewpoint using devices such as linear perspective, which had dominated
representation from the Renaissance onwards.
Analytical cubism ran from 1908–12. Its artworks look more severe and are made up of
an interweaving of planes and lines in muted tones of blacks, greys and ochres.
Synthetic cubism is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to date from about
1912 to 1914, and characterized by simpler shapes and brighter colours. Synthetic
cubist works also often include collaged real elements such as newspapers. The
inclusion of real objects directly in art was the start of one of the most important ideas in
modern art.
POP ART
Pop art, art movement of the late 1950s and ’60s that was inspired by
commercial and popular culture. Although it did not have a specific style or attitude, Pop
art was defined as a diverse response to the postwar era’s commodity-driven values,
often using commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and
hamburgers) as subject matter or as part of the work.
AMERICAN POP VS. BRITISH POP
Although they were inspired by similar subject matter, British pop is often seen as
distinctive from American pop.
Early pop art in Britain was fuelled by American popular culture viewed from a distance,
while the American artists were inspired by what they saw and experienced living within
that culture.
In the United States, pop style was a return to representational art (art that depicted the
visual world in a recognisable way) and the use of hard edges and distinct forms after
the painterly looseness of abstract expressionism. By using impersonal, mundane
imagery, pop artists also wanted to move away from the emphasis on personal feelings
and personal symbolism that characterized abstract expressionism.
In Britain, the movement was more academic in its approach. While employing irony and
parody, it focused more on what American popular imagery represented, and its power
in manipulating people’s lifestyles. The 1950s art group The Independent Group (IG), is
regarded as the precursor to the British Pop art movement.
DADAISM
Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in
negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance
produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.
Dada artists felt the war called into question every aspect of a society capable of
starting and then prolonging it – including its art.
In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and had political
affinities with the radical left.
The founder of dada was a writer, Hugo Ball. In 1916 he started a satirical night-
club in Zurich, the Cabaret Voltaire, and a magazine which, wrote Ball, ‘will bear the
name ”Dada”. Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada.’ This was the first of many dada publications.
Dada became an international movement and eventually formed the basis of surrealism
in Paris after the war
EXPRESSIONISM
The Scream
Edvard Munch
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
The action painters were led by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, who
worked in a spontaneous improvisatory manner often using large brushes to
make sweeping gestural marks. Pollock famously placed his canvas on the
ground and danced around it pouring paint from the can or trailing it from the
brush or a stick. In this way the action painters directly placed their inner impulses
onto the canvas.
The second grouping included Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still.
They were deeply interested in religion and myth and created simple compositions
with large areas of colour intended to produce a contemplative or meditational
response in the viewer. In an essay written in 1948 Barnett Newmann said:
'Instead of making cathedrals out of Christ, man, or ‘'life'’, we are making it out of
ourselves, out of our own feelings'. This approach to painting developed from
around 1960 into what became known as colour field painting, characterised by
artists using large areas of more or less a single flat colour.
The Glazier
1940
Willem de Kooning
FAUVISM
Fauvism is a style of painting that got its name from the French word
“Fauve” meaning “wild beast.”
The movement began in France when Henri Matisse was inspired by a piece
of African art that he saw at the home of his friend and artist André Derain.
The Fauves were interested in color for its emotional and expressive
qualities rather than for its symbolic or naturalistic associations. They
abandoned all academic rules and devoted themselves to fresh, spontaneous
expression in the moment. It is characterized by bright colors that create an
emotional response in viewers.
ART DECO
The Art Deco movement was a style of design that was popular during the
1920s to the 1930s. The term ‘Art Deco’ is derived from the French, and it translates into
English as ‘a style of art applied to decoration.’ This style emerged in France and then
spread to Europe, North America, and Latin America.
The term itself was coined in 1939 by French art dealer Georges-Pierre Seurat
to describe an exhibition of furniture designed in 1925 for the Paris Exhibition that year
and has since been applied more generally to items such as jewelry, clothing, textiles,
posters and buildings such as the Chrysler Building in New York City.
The architecture is characterized by its use of curves and geometric shapes. The
ubiquity of Art Deco can be found in buildings, furniture, fashion, graphic design,
sculpture- all aspects of life during this era.
The artists created their work by building on the advances made by Monet,
Renoir, and Pissarro. They also took what they had learned from Symbolism and the
Decorative Arts movement of the late 19th century.
Artists who followed this movement include Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet,
Paul Gauguin, André Derain, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice de Vlaminck and
Georges Seurat.
FUTURISM
Futurism art is a form of art that started in Italy in 1909. The Futurists were a
group of artists who wanted to break free from the artistic traditions, so they
experimented with new techniques like Cubism and Expressionism.
It was mainly led by the poet and artist, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
The term futurism came from the French word “futur”, which means future. The
Futurists wanted their art to show what life would be like in the future. They were
especially interested in modern technology, so they had images and videos of trains,
airplanes and automobiles.
Futuristic art is art that draws its inspiration from the future. These artists try to
imagine what the world could look like in a few decades or even centuries.
Futuristic art is a subset of science fiction, but it’s also an aesthetic that can be
used for other purposes than depicting imaginary worlds.
It often depicts what the artist believes to be possible with current technology,
but it can also be based on ideas from imagination and research in fields such as
technology, science and space exploration.
This genre of art has been seen in many films and books as well as actual
paintings and sculptures around the world.
REALISM
Realism art is a genre of art that strives to show things as they really are. It
captures the everyday life and pays attention to detail.
The realism art movement started in the 19th century, when artists like
Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet were pushing against the bounds of traditional
academic painting. They wanted to depict people in their lives and surroundings without
idealizing them.
It often focused on the lower classes in particular those that were engaged in
heavy manual labor.
ART NOUVEAU
Art Noveau is a French term that means “new art”. It was an artistic movement,
characterized by the use of fluid, organic lines. Art Noveau artists sought to create works
that were more naturalistic and sensual.
The important concepts of Art Nouveau are unity in variety, asymmetry, free-
flowing lines and curves, stylization of plant forms with animals acting as their natural
counterpoints or refined representations. The movement spread across Europe and was
popularized in America partly through the work of American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The style started to decline at the beginning of World War I and quickly
disappeared after the war because of its association with decadence and frivolity.
The style reached the peak of its popularity during the Belle Epoch of 1900s-
1910s before being replaced by Art Deco.
MINIMALISM
Minimalism is a style that became popular in the early twentieth century. The art
form is based on a few simple geometric shapes, such as lines and rectangles.
Minimalism uses these shapes to create beautiful artwork.
The term Minimalism was coined by American art critic and writer Donald Judd
in 1968. Since then, the art movement has been adopted by many artists all over the
world.
Minimalism is a form of art that strives to attain maximum results with minimum
means. It is an artistic style that came about in the late 1950s and early 1960s, primarily
in America and Western Europe.
This form of art is characterized by reductive geometric forms often set against
a white or light-colored background. The artist’s goal in this style is to present a sense of
order, clarity, balance, and restraint or calmness through reducing complexity or
ornamentation to its simplest shape or form.
ROMANTICISM
Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works
of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western
civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against
18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism
emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal,
the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.
Artworks Artists
Saturn Devouring His Son (1823) Francisco de Goya (1746-1828)
The Third Of May (1808)
CONCEPTUAL ART
Conceptual art, also called post-object art or art-as-idea, artwork whose
medium is an idea (or a concept), usually manipulated by the tools of language and
sometimes documented by photography. Its concerns are idea-based rather than
formal. By the mid-1970s conceptual art had become a widely accepted approach in
Western visual art.
Artworks Artists
Fountain (1917) Marcel Duchamp
Coffee Mill (1911)
NEOCLASSICISM
Neoclassical art, also called Neoclassicism and Classicism, a widespread
and influential movement in painting and the other visual arts that began in the 1760s,
reached its height in the 1780s and ’90s, and lasted until the 1840s and ’50s. In
painting it generally took the form of an emphasis on austere linear design in the
depiction of Classical themes and subject matter, using archaeologically correct
settings and clothing.
Artworks Artists
Death of General Wolfe (1770) Benjamin West
Psyche Revived By Cupid's Kiss (1777) Antonio Conova
CONSTRUCTIVISM
Constructivism, (Russian Konstruktivizm), Russian artistic and
architectural movement that was first influenced by Cubism and Futurism.
It is from the manifesto that the name Constructivism was derived; one of
the directives that it contained was “to construct” art.
Artworks Artist
The Sailor: Self Portrait (1911) Vladimir Tatlin
Composition with Figures (1913) Lyubov Popova
De Stijl
Originally a publication, De Stijl was founded in 1917 by two pioneers of
abstract art, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. De Stijl means style in Dutch.
De Stijl had a profound influence on the development both of abstract art and
modern architecture and design.
De Stijl, also known as neoplasticism, was a famous modern art form that
valued abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors
characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and
paintings.
Artworks Artists
Composition with Lagre Red Plane, Piet Mondrian
Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue (1921)
Broadway Boogie-Woogie Piet Mondrian
MODERN ART
Modern art, painting, sculpture, architecture, and graphic arts characteristic
of the 20th and 21st centuries and of the later part of the 19th century.
Artworks Artists
The Starry Night (1889) Vincent Van Gogh
The Two Fridas (1939) Frida Kahlo
SYMBOLISM
Symbolism, a loosely organized literary and artistic movement that
originated with a group of French poets in the late 19th century, spread to painting
and the theatre, and influenced the European and American literatures of the 20th
century to varying degrees.
Symbolism originated in the revolt of certain French poets against the rigid
conventions governing both technique and theme in traditional French poetry, as
evidenced in the precise description of Parnassian poetry.
Artworks Artists
The Crying Spider (1881) Odilon Redon
PHOTOREALISM
BAUHAUS
Weimar, Germany's Bauhaus was the birthplace of a significant art
and design movement. In design studios and workshops, the movement
promoted the practice of crafts by both teachers and students.
The term "Bauhaus design" describes the furnishings, accessories, spaces,
and buildings that sprang from the prominent German school established by
architect Walter Gropius in the early 20th century. Form follows function and
the philosophy of "less is more" were central to the Bauhaus design ethos,
which is still relevant today.
SUPREMATISM
Suprematism is a style of art from the first half of the 20th century that
emphasizes simple geometric shapes and uses a small palette of colors.
Rather of using visual representations of objects, suprematism refers to
abstract art that is centered on "the supremacy of pure creative sensibility."
RADIANCE - is simply defined as "what holds the eye." It refers to the feature
of an object that draws attention to it and encourages viewers to look at it
again or continue to do so. Since clarity is a crucial component of our job,
radiance also has to do with light because it makes it possible.
VI. Conclusions
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