Modern Arts

Art Styles from the Various Art Movements

Maximillan Roy D. Bangawan, LPT

Modern Art

Includes artistic work produced

during the period extending
roughly from the 1860’s to the
1970’s, and denotes the style and
philosophy of the art produced
during that era.
Avant-Garde

– works that are experimental,

radical or unorthodox with
respect to art, culture or
society.
Impressionism (1872)
Characterized by relatively
small, thin yet visible
brush strokes, open
composition (often
accentuating the effects
of the passage of time).
Artist: Claude Monet
Artwork: Sunrise (1872)
Expressionism (1893)
Expressionist artists use
paint and pastels, they
sought to express the
meaning of emotional
experience rather than
the physical reality.
Artist: Edvard Munch
Artwork: The Scream
(1893)
Cubism (1910)

The most influential art

movements of the 21st
century.
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Artwork: Girl with a
Mandolin (1910)
Dadaism (1915)

It rejected reason, logic,

prizing nonsense
irrationality and intuition.
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Artwork: Fountain (1917)
Surrealism (1920)

It developed painting
techniques allowed the
unconscious to express
itself.
Artist: Max Ernst
Artwork: The Elephant
Celebes (1921)
Op/Optical Art (1938)

abstract, with many better

known pieces created in
black and white.
Artist: Victor Vasarely
Artwork: Painting Zebras
(1938)
Abstract Illusionism (1940)
Uses visual language of shape,
form, color and line to create
a composition which may
exist with a degree of
independence from visual
references in the world.
Artist: Robert Delaunay
Artwork: Windows Open
Simultaneously (1940)
Pop/Popular Art (1950’s-1960’s)

The movement presented a

challenge to traditions of
fine art by including
imagery from popular and
mass culture.
Artist: Andy Warhol
Artwork: Campbell’s Soup
Can (1962)
Performance Art (1970’s)

considered as the “live art”.

Happenings and Mob
– (1980’s-21st century)

a group of people who

assemble at a public
place suddenly.