Modern Art

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Impressionism• This painting

started the Impressionistic movement.

• Light and color were more important than clear, sharp images.

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet, 1872.

Post-Impressionism• This style is less

relaxed and more emotional than Impressionism.

• Notice the bold colors, twisted forms, and course brushstrokes.

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, 1889.

Surrealism• Images in this

style are not logical.

• Metal attracts ants like rotting flesh.

• Limp watches suggest that time has lost all meaning.

• Can you see a face in the center?

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, 1933.

Cubism• This style use

geometric shapes like circles, squares, and triangles.

• There is no realistic detail.

• The image is flat, two-dimensional, and fragmented. Head of Marie-Therese by

Pablo Picasso, 1938.

Pop Art

• Everyday items are the subjects of this style.

• Television, magazines, and comic books gave the painters of this style most of their ideas.

• Pop means popular. Campbell’s Soup Can by Andy Warhol, 1964.

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Surrealism

• The idea of a man looking into a mirror and seeing the back of his own head is absurd.

Portrait of Edward James by Rene Magritte, 1937.

Pop Art

• This woman was a famous movie star, so she made a perfect subject for this style of painting.

Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, 1964.

Cubism

• Geometric shapes were used with this modern style of painting.

• How many triangles can you count? Girl With a Boat by Pablo

Picasso, 1938.

Impressionism• There are no sharp

lines or clear images here, just an impression of a building.

• Light, shadow, and color are the most important elements in this painting.

House of Parliament by Claude Monet, 1904.

Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua,

NY

Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua,

NY

Themes in Early Modern ArtThemes in Early Modern Art

1. Uncertainty/insecurity.

2. Disillusionment.

3. The subconscious.

4. Overt sexuality.

5. Violence & savagery.

Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)Edvard Munch: The Scream (1893)

Expressionism Using bright

colors to express a particular emotion.

Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)Franz Marc: Animal Destinies (1913)

Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)Wassily Kandinsky: On White II (1923)

Gustav Klimt: Judith I (1901)Gustav Klimt: Judith I (1901)

Secessionists Disrupt the

conservative values of Viennese society.

Obsessed with the self.

Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.

Gustav Klimt:

Wrogie sily (1901)

Gustav Klimt:

Wrogie sily (1901)

Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (1907-8)

Gustav Klimt: Danae (1907-8)Gustav Klimt: Danae (1907-8)

Henri Matisse:

Carmelina(1903)

Henri Matisse:

Carmelina(1903)

FAUVE

The use of intense colors in a violent, and uncontrolled way.

“Wild Beast.”

Henri Matisse:

Open Window(1905)

Henri Matisse:

Open Window(1905)

Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910)

Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910)

CUBISM

The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form.

Cezanne The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

Georges Braque:

Woman with a Guitar(1913)

Georges Braque:

Woman with a Guitar(1913)

Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)

Georges Braque: Still Life: LeJeur (1929)

Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)

Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

Picasso: Studio with Plaster Head (1925)

Pablo Picasso:

Woman with aFlower(1932)

Pablo Picasso:

Woman with aFlower(1932)

Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)Paul Klee: Red & White Domes (1914)

Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)Paul Klee: Senecio (1922)

George Grosz

Grey Day(1921)

George Grosz

Grey Day(1921)

DaDa Ridiculed

contemporary culture & traditional art forms.

The collapse during WW I of social and moral values.

Nihilistic.

George Grosz:

Daum Marries Her Pedantic AutomatonGeorge in

May, 1920, John

Heartfield is Very Glad of II

(1919-1920)

George Grosz:

Daum Marries Her Pedantic AutomatonGeorge in

May, 1920, John

Heartfield is Very Glad of II

(1919-1920)

George Grosz

The Pillarsof Society

(1926)

George Grosz

The Pillarsof Society

(1926)

Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)Raoul Hausmann: ABCD (1924-25)

Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917)

Marcel Duchamp:

Nude Descending a

Staircase(1912)

Marcel Duchamp:

Nude Descending a

Staircase(1912)

Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),

1936

Salvador Dali: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),

1936Surrealis

m Late 1920s-1940s.

Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa.

Influenced by Feud’s theories on psychoanalysis and the subconscious.

Confusing & startling images like those in dreams.