MODERN ART

INTRODUCTION

• In all of human history, art has mirrored life in the community, society, and the world in
all its colors, lines, shapes, and forms. The same has been true in the last two centuries,
with world events and global trends being reflected in the art movements.
• The decades from 1900 to the present have seen the human race living in sn ever-
shrinking planet. The 20th century saw a boom in the interchange of ideas, beliefs,
values, and lifestyles that continues to bring the citizens of the world closer together.
• Sent
TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

• From the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, the world zoomed into the Electronic
Age in the mid-1900s, then into the present Cyberspace Age. In just over 100 years,
humans went from hand-cranked telephones to hands-free mobile phones, from the first
automobiles to inter-planetary space vehicles, from local radio broadcasting to
international news coverage via satellite, from vaccinations against polio and smallpox
DEPED COPY Inser surgery.
SOCIAL POLITICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CHANGES
• There has been migration across the globe, allowing different cultures, languages, skills,
and even physical characteristics of different races to intermingle like never before. The
20th century also suffered through two World Wars, and several regional wars in Asia,
Africa, and the Middle East. There was the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Asian
economic crisis of the 1990s. Considered the modern-day plague, AIDS has afflicted
millions the world over, while millions more coutine to live in hunger, disease, and
poverty. Environmental destruction has also become a major concern.
EFFECTS ON THE WORLD OF ART

• The art movements of the late 19th century to the 20th century captured and expressed all
these and more. Specifically, these were the movements known as impressionism and
expressionism. While earlier periods of art had a quite set conventions as to the style,
technique, and treatment of their subjects, impressionists and expressionists conveyed
their ideas and feelings in bold, innovative ways. These were the exciting precursors of
the modern art of the 21st century.
IMPRESSIONISM: ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT

• Impressionism was an art movement emerged in the second half of the 19th century
among a group of Paris-based artists. The duration of the movement itself was quiet short,
less than 20 years from 1877 to the mid-1880s. But it had a tremendous impact and
influence on the painting styles that followed, such as neo-impressionism, post-
impressionism, fauvism, and cubism-even the artistic styles and movements of today.
• The name impressionism was coined from the title Impression soleil levant (Impression
Sunrise) by French painter Claude Monet.
 Impression, Sundae
Claude Monet, 1872
Oil on canvas

• The term precisely captured what this group of artists sought to represent in their works:
the viewer's momentary "impression" of an image. It was not intend to be clear or precise,
but more like a fleeting fragment of reality caught on canvas.
THE INFLUENCE OF DELACROIX
• As with all emerging of art movement, impressionism owed its inspiration to earlier
master. French painter Eugene Delacroix was admired because of his use of expressive
brush strokes, emphasize of movement and his study of optical effects of color.

The Barque of Dante

Eugene Delacroix, 1822
Oil on canvas
• The painting The Barque of Dante, contained revolutionary technique that would profoundly
influence the coming impressionist movement. It involved simple droplets of water. The
painting was based on the fictional scene from Dante's Inferno, showing Dante and poer
Virgil crossing Hell's River Styx while tormented soul struggle to climed aboard their boat.
• The drops of water running down the bodies of this doomed souls, that are painted in a
manner. When studied closely, it is seen four different unmixed pigments-yellow, green, red
and white-create image of it's each drop and shadow. Viewed from little distant the colors
blend to represent individual drops glistening with light. The distinct colors merge in the eye
of the viewer to appear monochromatic (single-colored) or in the case of the water droplets,
colorless. In short, an impressionism is formed.
A BREAK FROM PAST PAINTING TRADITIONS

COLOR AND LIGHT

The painting conventions and techniques of earlier art periods were very much concerned
with line, form, and composition.
"EVERYDAY" SUBJECTS
Typical content portrayed in Impressionist paintings includes still life depictions,
landscapes, portraits of friends and family, and modern city scenes—a far cry from the
historical, mythological, and allegorical scenes found in traditional French paintings.
PAINTING OUTDOORS
The location in which the impressionists painted was also different. Previously, still
lifes, portraits and landscapes were usually painted inside a studio.
OPEN COMPOSITIONS
Impressionists painting also moved away from the formal, structured approach to
placing and positioning their subjects. They experimented with unusual visual
angles, sizes of objects that appeared out of proportion, off-center placement, and
empty spaces on the canvas.
THE INFLUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography was in its early stages at this time as well. As it gained
popularity, photography inspired impressionists the capture fleeting
moments of actions, whether in landscapes or in the day-to-day lives of
people.
IMPRESSIONISM: WORKS OF MANET, MONET,
AND RENOIR
• By the 1870s, the stage was set for the emergence of the next major art movement in
Europe impressionism. It started with a group of French painters that, included Edouard
Manet Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and eventually spread to other countries, such as
Italy, Germany, and The Netherlands
EDOUARD MANET

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was one of the first 19th century artists to
depict modern-life subjects. He was a key figure in the transition from
realism to impressionism, with a number of his works considered as marking
the birth of modern art.
Argenteuil Rue Mosnier Decked With Flags
Edouard Manet, 1874 Edouard Manet, 1878
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
Cafe Concert The Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Edouard Manet, 1878 Edouard Manet, 1882
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
CLAUDE MONET

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the founders of the impressionist

movement along with his friends Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and
Frédéric Bazille. He was the most prominent of the group; and is considered
the most influential figure in the movement Monet is best known for his
landscape paintings, particularly those depicting his beloved flower gardens
and water lily ponds at his home in Giverny.
 La Promenade
The Red Boats, Argenteuil Claude Claude Monet, 1875
Monet, 1875
Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilles Claude Irises in Monet's Garden
Monet, 1899 Claude Monet, 1900
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
AUGUSTE RENOIR

Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), along with Claude Monet, was one of the
central figures of the impressionist movement. His early works were
snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. By the mid-1880s,
however, Renoir broke away from the impressionist movement to apply a
more disciplined, formal technique to portraits of actual people and figure
paintings
Dancer A Girl with a Watering Can
Auguste Renoir, 1874 Auguste Renoir, 1876
Oil on canvas Oif on canvas
Mile Irene Cahen d'Anvers Auguste Luncheon of the Boating Party Auguste
Renoir, 1880 Renoir, 1881
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
POST-IMPRESSIONISM: WORKS OF CEZANNE
AND VAN GOGH
After the brief yet highly influential period of impressionism, an outgrowth movement
known as post-impressionism emerged. The European artists who were at the forefront of
this movement continued using the basic qualities of the impressionists before them the
vivid colors, heavy brush strokes, and true-to-life subjects. However, they expanded and
experimented with these in bold new ways, like using a geometric approach, fragmenting
objects and distorting people's faces and body parts, and applying colors that were not
necessarily realistic or natural
PAUL CEZANNE

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a French artist and post-impressionist

painter. His work exemplified the transition from late 19th-century
impressionism to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th
century-paving the way for the next revolutionary art movement known as
expressionism.
Hortense Fiquet in a striped Skirt Paul Still Life with Compotier
Cezanne, 1878 Paul Cezanne, 1879-1882
oil on canvas Oil on canvas
Harlequin Boy in a Red Vest
Paul Cezanne, 1888-1850 Paul Cezanne, 1890
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a post-impressionist painter from The

Netherlands. His works were remarkable for their strong heavy brush
strokes, intense emotions, and colors that appeared to almost pulsate with
energy
 The Sower
sheaves of Wheat in a Field Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Vincent van Gogh, 1885 Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
 Bedroom at Arles
Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Starry Night Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
FAUVISM

Fauvism was a style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions. Its
name was derived from les fauves ("wild beasts"), the most know in the
group of french expressionist painters in this style is Henri Matisse who
painted the "Blue Window".
Blue Window Woman with Hat
Henri Matisse, 1911 Henri Matisse, 1905
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
DADAISM

• Dadaism was a style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and

visual tricks and surprises as in the paintings of Marc Chagall and Giorgio de
Chince who painted Melanoholy and Mystery of street and I and the Village.
Although the works appeared playful, the movement arose from the pain that a
group of European artists felt after the suffering brought by World War I Wishing
to protest against the civilization that had brought on such horrors, these artists
rebelled against established norms and muthorities, and against the traditional
styles in art. They chose the child's term for hobbyhorse, dada to refer to their
new "non-style"
Melancholy and Mystery of a Street I and the Village
Giorgio de Chirico, 1914 Marc Chagal, 1911
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas
SURREALISM

• Surrealism was a style that depicted an illogical subconscious dream world

beyond the logical, conscious, physical cas Its name came from the term
"super realium," with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from
reality as though the artists were dreaming seeing illusions, or
experiencing an altered metal state
SOCIAL REALISM
The movement known as social realism
expressed the artist's role in social reform
Here, artists used their works to protest
against the injustices, inequalities, immorality,
and ugliness of the human condition. In
different periods of history, social realists
have addressed different issues: war, poverty,
corruption, industrial and environmental
hazards, and more in the hope of raising
people's awareness and pushing society to
Miners' Wives seek reforms.
Ben Shahn, 1948
Egg tempera on board
 Guernice
Pablo Picasso, 1937
Oil on canvas

• Pablo Picasso's Guernica has been recognized as the most monumental and
comprehensive statement of social realism against the brutality of war Filling one wall of
the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, it was Picasso's outcry against the
German air raid of the town of Guernica in his native Spain.
LET’S PLAY
JUMBLED LETTER
 NISREPMMIOSSI
• It was an art movement that emerged in the second half of the 19th
century among a group of Paris-based artists
 IMPRESSIONISM
• It was an art movement that emerged in the second half of the 19th century
among a group of Paris-based artists
 DUDAROE NMAET
• He was a key figure in the transition from realism to
Impressionism, with numbers of his works considered as marking
the birth of modern art.
 EDOUARD MANET
• He was a key figure in the transition from realism to
Impressionism, with numbers of his works considered as marking
the birth of modern art.
 GENAREIULT
• an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Edouard Manet
 ARGENTEUIL
• an 1874 oil on canvas painting by Edouard Manet
 EDLUAC MNEOT
• One of the founders of the Impressionist movement along with his
friends.
 CLAUDE MONET
• One of the founders of the Impressionist movement along with his
friends.
 GUSTUAE NOIERR
• His early works were snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color
and light.
 AUGUSTE RENOIR
• His early works were snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color
and light.
 UALP ZNNEACE
• A French artist and post-impressionist.
 PAUL CEZANNE
• A French artist and post-impressionist.
 LEUINQAHR
• an 1888-1890 oil on canvas painting by Paul Cezanne
 HARLEQUIN
• an 1888-1890 oil on canvas painting by Paul Cezanne
 OYB NI A DER ETSV
• Also known as The Boy in the Red Waistcoat, a painting by Paul
Cézanne, painted in 1888-1890.
 BOY IN A RED VEST
• Also known as The Boy in the Red Waistcoat, a painting by Paul
Cézanne, painted in 1888-1890.
 CETNNIV NAV GHGO
• His works were remarkable for their strong, heavy brush strokes,
intense emotions, and color that appeared to almost pulsate with
energy.
 RRATYS GHITN
• An oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June
1889.
 STARRY NIGHT
• An oil-on-canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June
1889.