WEEK 12

CAUGHT IN
BETWEEN:
MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART
 WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY
ART?

Contemporary art is the term

used for art of the present day. The
term “contemporary art” is generally
regarded as referring to work made
between 1970 and the present.
 WHAT IS MODERN ART?

Modern art includes artistic work

produced during the period extending roughly
from the 1860s to the 1970s.

Many styles of art developed during the

modern period including Impressionism ,
Fauvism , Cubism , Expressionism ,
Surrealism , Pop Art , Op Art , Art Nouveau ,
and Art Deco.
IMPRESSIONISM EXPRESSIONISM OP ART

FAUVISM SURREALIS ART NOUVEAU

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CUBISM POP ART Art Deco

 Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism is an artistic movement of the mid-

20th century comprising diverse styles and techniques and
emphasizing especially an artist’s liberty to convey attitudes and
emotions through nontraditional and usually nonrepresentational
means. Example: Jackson Pollock's Number 1A (1948)

Action Painting
● Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art
● A technique and style of abstract painting in which paint is randomly
splashed, thrown, or poured on the canvas.
● It was made famous by Jackson Pollock, and formed part of the more
general movement of abstract expressionism. Example: Arshile Gorky,
The Liver is the Cock's Comb, 1944
Color-Field
● Designating or of a style of abstract painting in which colors are
applied to a canvas, often in large patches, with little variation in
tone and little emphasis on form Example : Barnett Newman,
Dionysius (1949)
●Op Art is an abbreviation of 'optical art' and the term came into regular
use in the mid-1960s. The style is characterised by abstract patterns, often
in black and white, with a stark contrast between background and
foreground. Example: Bridget Riley, Blaze, 1964

Dynamism
●"Plastic dynamism", a term used by the Italian futurist art movement to
describe an object's intrinsic and extrinsic motion
●applied to both abstract and figurative works that suggest movement
and energy. Example: DYNAMISM OF A CAR BY LUIGI RUSSOLO⭐

Creating Movement
●It deals with the way the viewer's eye moves through the work of art ●Such movement
can be directed along lines, edges, shape, and color within the work of art
●Artists use movement to direct the viewer's eye through a work of art.
 3 TYPES MOVEMENT OF ART
●PHYSICAL MOVEMENT
This is the feeling of action found in a work of art. This can be
conveyed by drawing or painting lines coming from the object that
is moving. It can be actual in a three dimensional artwork such as
a mobile. Example :Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night

●JUXTAPOSITION

The artist portrays the subject in somewhat of a "freeze frame.”

This type of movement can show the subject in the air, or at an
angle. Example: Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal Onstage, 1874

●MOVING THE VIEWERS

EYE’S
It deals with the way the viewer's eye moves through the work of art.
Movement is dictated by the way the objects are placed on the picture
plane or by the way the artist uses the elements of art throughout the
artwork. Example : Hokusai's Under the Wave off Kanagawa
POP ART
●A movement in modern art that imitates the
methods, styles, and themes of popular culture
and mass media, such as comic strips,
advertising, and science fiction. Example: Roy
Lichtenstein, “Foot and Hand” (1964)

POST-MODERNISM
●Postmodernism was an artistic movement from the
1960s to the 1990s that rejected Modern art and idealism.

●Postmodern art can be also characterized by a

deliberate use of earlier styles and conventions, and an
eclectic mixing of different artistic and popular styles
and mediums. Example: Marilyn Diptych (1962) by
Andy Warhol