ART

MOVEMENTS/
ART STYLES
(PART 2)
 CONSTRUCTIVISM
✘ A Russian artistic and architectural movement that was first
influenced by Cubism and Futurism
✘ “to construct art”
✘ Concerned with the use of “real materials in real space”
✘ “use art as a tool for the common good”
Counter-relief
by Vladimir
tatlin (1916)
 DE STIJL ART
✘ It means “The Style”.
✘ Adapted a purer form of geometry
✘ Proponents advocated pure abstraction and universality.
✘ Reduced to the essentials of form and color
✘ Simplified the visual compositions
Composition with
Red, Blue, and
Yellow, 1930 BY
Piet Mondrian
 ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
✘ Emphasize free, spontaneous, and personal emotional
expression and exercise freedom of technique and execution
✘ Displays abandonment of conventionally structured
composition
✘ Fill large canvases to give visual effects
 ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
✘ Approaches and Styles used include:
✗ action painting
✗ middle ground
✗ least emotionally expressive approach
Number 1A, 1948 by Jackson
pollock
 (1956)
an example that
used the least
emotionally
expressive
approach in
abstract
expressionism
 OPTICAL ART
✘ a type of abstract or concrete art in the mid-20th century
✘ consist of non-representation geometric shapes creating
various types of optical illusion
✘ may cause the eye to detect a sense of movement on the
surface of the painting
 Victor
Vasarely
(1978)
senior exponent
and Pioneer of
op art effects
FALL
by
BRIDG
ET
RILEY
(1963)
RADIALS in
By
peter sedgley
(1982)
 POP ART
✘ A term invented by British curator Lawrence Alloway in
1955 to describe a new form of “popular” art
✘ characterized by consumerism and popular culture
✘ became the dominant avant-garde style until the late 1960s
✘ often contain subjects and images from media
 POP ART
✘Became a cultural event because of how it
reflects social situations using easily
comprehensible images
✘characterized as bold, simple, vibrant, easily
recognizable
Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
(1963)
 MINIMALISM
✘ Also known as Minimalist Art or ABC Art
✘ Focuses on basic elements
✘ Developed in the United States in the late 1950s
✘ Characterized by repetition, extreme simplicity, smooth
and finished areas, sometimes monochromatic colors, no
shading or subtle transition, lack of expressiveness.
untitled sculptures by Blue red green black by
donald judd (1980-84) ellsworth kelly (2004)
 CONCEPTUAL ART
✘ It is all about “Ideas and meanings” rather than “works of
art”. Some artist consider that art is created by the viewer.
✘ Characterized by its use of text as well as imagery
typically everyday materials and “found objects”
Give if you
can - take
if you have
to
by jack
tylicki
(2008)
 PHOTO-REALISM
✘ Also called Super-realism
✘ Took photography as its inspiration in the 1960s
✘ Projected a photographed image onto a canvas then used
an airbrush to reproduce the effect of a photo on glossy
paper
✘ Artists are dependent on high resolution photography.
 PHOTO-REALISM
✘ Puts little emphasis on improvisation in creating art
✘ Draftsmanship and precise brushwork become the focus.
✘ Gives importance to skilled craftsmanship that value
discipline than impulsive improvisations
Crayola by
Audrey
Flack
(1972-73)
 INSTALLATION ART
✘ A term used to refer to works wherein the whole space
(room-sized or larger) is considered a single unified
artwork
✘ Often created in mixed media
✘ Can also be site-specific because of its size
✘ It cannot be collected because it is so large and complex.
The value lies in the experience of the art itself.
FOREST OF NUMBERS by
Emmanuelle Moreaux (2017)
Installation art by Raffy napay using thread and
needles as medium
light and sound installation art by leeroy new at the
sm aura premier (2015)