FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY

(Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management)

(Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts)

20TH Century Arts

Group 6
Tamundong, Mikael
Tilo, Cedric
Tritasco, Pam Polenio
Tullao, John
Umali, Nico
Valdez, Sheillie Ann Gale
Waing, Queenie Jane
 INTRODUCTION:
• 20th century began on January 01, 1901 and ended
on December 31, 2000. In art, 20th century is also
known as the modern art, where the first
movement of art which is Fauvism in France and Die
Brücke in Germany began. Fauvism in Paris
introduced heightened non-representational colour
into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for
emotional Expressionism.

• The 20th century was the stage for some of the

greatest modern artists in history.
20TH
Century Art
Movements
Fauvism
Expressionism
Surrealism
Dadaism
Abstract Art
Cubism
Pop Art
Post Modern
Fauvism

• The movement in painting that led the charge

toward well-known 20th-century painting styles,
such as Cubism and Expressionism, was Fauvism.

• Fauve is French for 'wild beasts,' a name which

Paul Gauguin, the Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch, 1892

stuck among the critics who viewed their work.

• One of the greatest inspirations for
the Fauvists was the Post-
Impressionist artist Paul
Gauguin (1848-1903).
• Gauguin believed color could be
used to translate emotions beyond
words and into objects in paintings.

Paul Gauguin, the Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch, 1892

 • This ideas, express the feelings
of the artist through a
somewhat irrational use of
color, create the Fauvist style.
• The Joy of Life, possibly Matisse's best-
known Fauvist work, it was created in
response to the negative critical
reactions that followed Matisse's
contributions to the 1905 Salon
d'Automne.

Le Bonheur de Vivre (1905-06)

Artist: Henri Matisse
Expressionism

• Expressionism refers to art in which the image of

reality is distorted in order to make it expressive
of the artist’s inner feelings or ideas.

• Expressionist artists often employed swirling,

swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes
in the depiction of their subjects.
20th Century Important Art and Artist of Expressionism

Wassily Kandinsky
Russian Painter
Movements and Styles: Expressionism, Bauhaus, Der Blaue
Reiter
 Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) (1903)

• This breakthrough work is a deceptively

simple image - a lone rider racing
across a landscape - yet it represented
a decisive moment in Kandinsky's
developing style.
• In this painting, he demonstrated a
clear stylistic link to the work of the
Impressionists, like Claude Monet,
particularly evident in the contrasts of
light and dark on the sun-dappled
hillside. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), 1903

Oil on canvas - Private collection

Surrealism
• Surrealism was an artistic and literary
movement.

• Surrealism’s goal was to liberate thought,

language, and human experience from the
oppressive boundaries of rationalism.
• Seated Youth is the visual
equivalent of the rich and
varied literature that
emerged in the aftermath of
World War I.
• A nude young man seated
alone in a closed, self-
contained, reflective, and
melancholic pose.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Seated Youth, 1918

Tinted plaster
103.2 x 76.2 x 115.5 cm (40 5/8 x 30 x 45 1/2 in.)
• The sculpture can be viewed
as an abstraction of a
reclining female human
figure, resting on one arm,
hip and two legs, with the
second arm raised, and a
prominence on the chest
suggesting a breast. It has no
evident face.
Henry Moore OM, Reclining Figure, 1969
Bronze, 343 cm (135 in)
• The sculpture is loosely
reminiscent of a portrait bust – a
head and neck rising from
shoulders – although these
human characteristics are not
represented with any anatomical
accuracy.
• The sculpture is made up of
rounded globular forms that seem
to melt into each other, an effect
achieved by the highly-polished
finish.

Henry Moore OM, Composition, 1932

African wonder stone on a stained oak base
445 x 457 x 298 mm
 Dadaism
• Dadaism or Dada was a form
of artistic anarchy born out of
disgust for the social, political
and cultural values of the time.
• It embraced elements of art,
music, poetry, theatre, dance
and politics.

MAN RAY (1890-1976)

'Cadeau (Gift)' 1921 (Flat Iron with Brass Tacks)
• ‘Spirit of Our Time’ is
a sculptural
metaphor for the
inability of the
establishment to
inspire the changes
necessary to rebuild
a better Germany.

RAOUL HAUSMANN (1886-1971)

'The Spirit of Our Time', 1920 (assemblage)
 MAN RAY (1890-1976)
'Object to be Destroyed', 1923 (ready-made)
Abstract Expressionism
• Abstract Expressionism" was never an ideal label for
the movement, which developed in New York in the
1940s and 1950s.

• Abstract Expressionism has become the most

accepted term for a group of artists who held much
in common.
• Number 1 (Lavender Mist) is one
of thirty-two paintings that
debuted in Pollock's 1950 solo
exhibition at Betty Parson's New
York gallery and was the only
painting that sold.
• A chaotic composition of black,
white, russet, orange, silver and
stone blue industrial paint is built
up in random web-like layers that
blend visually together to give off
the illusion of a lavender glow.
Number 1 (Lavender Mist) (1950)
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Oil on canvas - National Gallery, Washington DC
• Jackson Pollock’s Mural
represents the break from
representational painting
on traditional canvases to
his unique drip style,
completed on canvases
stretched out on the floor.

Mural
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Cubism
• Cubism emerged as a form of painting that challenged all
of the values of the Victorian era.
• Cubism falls under the Modernist movement, which went
against the Victorian ideas about God and pushed aside
the previous notions that paintings should contain objects
that you did not really have to think much about in order
to interpret.
• Picasso's painting was shocking
even to his closest artist friends
both for its content and for its
formal experimentation.
• The subject matter of nude
women was not in itself
unusual, but the fact that
Picasso painted the women as
prostitutes in aggressively
sexual postures was novel.

Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

Artist: Pablo Picasso
• The church of San Francesco
d’Assisi al Fopponino and the
cathedral in Taranto, Ponti
recalled the experience of
German Expressionists who
subjected gothic motifs to cubist
geometrization.

The church of San Francesco d’Assisi al

Fopponino in Milan, Italy
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), who
developed Cubism, is also credited
with possibly the first Cubist
sculpture.

• His Head of a Woman from 1909 was

modeled from a woman who was
then his lover, but it certainly isn't a
portrait.

Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1909

Georges Braque's
experience as a Fauve
undoubtedly influenced his
subsequent work as a
Cubist. Like his Fauve
paintings—namely, his
landscapes—his Cubist
works are broken down into
flat planes of color. Georges Braque, “The Viaduct at L'Estaque,” 1907
Pop Art
• An art movement presented a challenge to traditions
of fine art by including imagery from popular and
mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and
mundane cultural objects.

• In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed

from its known context, isolated, or combined with
unrelated material.
• Chicago artist Tom Fedro creates art
with zing and boundless humor.

• Bright colors, big features and bold

lines that seem to be electrically
charged represent an exiting way of
seeing and experiencing the world
through his eyes.

Pretending - Original Pop Art

Artist: Tom Fedro - Fidostudio
Painting - Acrylic And Oil On Canvas
• BLAM and similar works were painted
using the Ben-Day dot technique,
borrowed from comic book printing.
Thus, not only is the larger image
itself a reproduction, but it was also
painted using a repetitive, almost
mechanical technique.

BLAM (1962)
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Oil on canvas - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
• This large canvas measures approximately 94
by 94 inches, derived from a photograph of a
swimming pool Hockney had seen in a pool
manual, Hockney was intrigued by the idea
that a painting might recapture a fleeting
event frozen in a photograph.

A Bigger Splash (1967)

Artist: David Hockney
Acrylic on canvas - Tate, London
Postmodern Art
• Postmodern Art is a body of art movements
that sought to contradict some aspects
of modernism or some aspects that emerged
or developed in its aftermath.
• It describes movements which both arise
from, and react against or reject, trends
in modernism.
• Mural depicting the chaos,
human suffering and
environmental devastation
resulted from the German
bombardment of the village.

Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937

• A urinal Sculpture signed with the
pseudonym R. Mutt
• “Readymades”
• Labelled as “Dada or Dadaism”

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917

• Postmodernism is an international trend in architecture since the 1950s that
rejects the formal and idealistic ideas of the early 20th century Modernism.
It's visually defined by a major focus on design and form over function, but it's
extremely eclectic and irreverent of stylistic rules and boundaries.

• The juxtaposition of old and new, especially with regards to taking styles from
past periods and re-fitting them into modern art outside of their original context, is
a common characteristic of postmodern art.
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