WHAT IS MODERN ART?

• Refers to works produced during the

approximate period 1860-1970.
19th century to mid 20th century
• Throwing out of the OLD, embracing of the
New.
• There is more of EXPERIMENTATION in new
ways of seeing new ideas about how art
functions
WHAT IS MODERN ART?
• Modern art also witnessed the emergence of NEW
MEDIA, like PHOTOGRAPHY.
• Typically, modern artists rejected previous
Renaissance-based traditions, in favor of new
forms of artistic experimentation.
• new materials
• new techniques of painting
• developed new theories about how art should
reflect the perceived world, and what their
functions as artists should be.
WHEN DID MODERN ART BEGIN?

EDOUARD MANET
EDOUARD MANET

• was a French modernist painter

• He was one of the first 19th-century artists to
paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the
transition from Realism to Impressionism.
 MODERN ART
Modern Art - the rejection of traditional academic art forms

Modern Art saw a shift from the traditional art forms to :

- different use of media, like photography, collage, assemblage
- Different use of space in architecture – the high rise building (sky
scrapers)
- Significant rise in Abstract and Non-Representational Art
- Social and political transformation/ non-conformity
- Artists were eager for change
THE TIMELINE OF MODERN ART
1870
IMPRESSIONISM (1870-1880)

1880
NEO- IMPRESSIONISM (1886-1906)
POST-IMPRESSIONISM (1886-1905)

1890
FAUVISM (1898-1908)
EXPRESSIONISM (1890-1939)

1900
ART NOUVEAU (1905-1939)
CUBISM (1907)
DIEBRUCKE (1905-1913)
FUTURISM (1909-1939)
THE TIMELINE OF MODERN ART
1910
BLAUE REITER (1911-1914)
CONSTRUCTIVISM (1914-1930S)
DADAISM (1916-1923)
SUPREMATISM (1915-1920S)
BAUHAUS(1919-1933)

1920
DE STIJL (1920S-1932)

1930
SURREALISM (1922-1939)

1940
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM (MID 1940S)

1950
POP ART (MID 1950’S)
IMPRESSIONISM
• From 1870’s to 1880’s, Impressionism was
light, spontaneous manner of painting which
began in FRANCE.

• It was as a REACTION against the

RESTRICTIONS and conventions of the
dominant ACADEMIC ART.

• It marked the BEGINNING of all MODERN ART

STYLES
IMPRESSIONISM
• The movement’s name was derived from
Monet’s early work,

Impression: Sunrise

• Impressionism marked a new way of painting

that was more concerned to capture the
subjective impression of light in the scene
IMPRESSIONISM

• Color became more important than line in the

creation of surfaces of vibrating color.

• Colors are applied side by side with little

mixing as possible, creating vibrant surface.
The optical mixing of colors occurs on the eye
of the viewer
IMPRESSIONISM PAINTERS & WORK

CLAUDE MONET: IMPRESSION, SUNRISE (1872)

IMPRESSIONISM PAINTERS & WORK
ALFRED SISLEY: THE RIVER LOING AT SAINT-
MAMMÈS (1885)
IMPRESSIONISM PAINTERS & WORK
EDGAR DEGAS : THE DANCE CLASS (1873-
1876)
IMPRESSIONISM PAINTERS & WORK
CAMILLE PISSARO: ENTRÉE DU VILLAGE DE
VOISINS 1872
IMPRESSIONISM PAINTERS & WORK
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR: TWO SISTERS
1881
ACTIVITY 03: MOTHER & CHILD

PAINT AN IMPRESSIONISM MOVEMENT WITH

THE SUBJECT MOTHER & CHILD

DUE NEXT MEETING & WILL BE

REPORTED/EXPLAINED PER GROUP

ACCOMPLISHMENTS WILL BE CHECKED AT

THE END OF THE PERIOD