MODERN&CONTEMPO

RARY ART STYLES

MODERN ART- includes artistic

works produced during the period
extending roughly from the 1860s
to the 1970s, and denotes the
style and philosophy of the art
produced during that era. The
term is usually associated with art
in which the traditions of the past
have been thrown aside in a spirit
of experimentation.

ARTISTS THAT
INFLUENCE MODERN
ART

Vincent Van Goghwas a postImpressionist painter

of Dutch origin
whose worknotable
for its rough beauty,
emotional honesty,
and bold colorhad
a far-reaching
influence on 20thcentury art.

Paul Czanne - was a

French artist and PostImpressionist painter
whose work laid the
foundations of the
transition from the 19thcentury conception of
artistic endeavor to a
new and radically
different world of art in
the 20th century.

Paul Gauguin -was a

leading French PostImpressionist artist
who was not well
appreciated until after
his death. Gauguin
was later recognized
for his experimental
use of colors and
synthetist style that
were distinguishably
different from
Impressionism.

George Seurat- noted

for his innovative use of
drawing media and for
devising the painting
techniques known as
chromoluminarism and
pointillism. His large-scale
work, A Sunday Afternoon
on the Island of La Grande
Jatte (18841886), altered
the direction of modern
art by initiating Neoimpressionism, and is one
of the icons of late 19thcentury painting

Henri de ToulouseLautrec - was a French

painter, printmaker,
draftsman and illustrator
whose immersion in the
colorful and theatrical
life of Paris in the late
1800s yielded a
collection of exciting,
elegant and provocative
images of the modern
and sometimes
decadent life of those
times.

1. MODERN ART
STYLES

1.Fauvism- is the style of les Fauves

(French for "the wild beasts"), a loose
group of early twentieth-century
Modern artists whose works
emphasized painterly qualities and
strong color over the representational
or realistic values retained by
Impressionism.

Henri Matisse- The

founder of the Fauve
movement.

2. Surrealism- is a cultural
movement that began in the early
1920s, and is best known for its
visual artworks and writings. The
aim was to "resolve the previously
contradictory conditions of dream
and reality.

Salvador Dal -is a

skilled draftsman,
best known for the
striking and bizarre
images in his
surrealist work

3.Cubism- A revolutionary new

approach to representing reality
in art invented by artists Pablo
Picasso and Georges Braque in
1907/08 in which the artists aimed
to bring different views of their
subjects (usually objects or
figures) together in the same
picture, resulting in paintings that
appear fragmented and

Pablo Picasso- was

a Spanish painter,
sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist, stage
designer, poet and
playwright who spent
most of his adult life
in France. (Cubism)

4. Dadaism- a revolt by certain

20th-century painters and writers
in France, Germany, and
Switzerland against smugness in
traditional art and Western
society; their works, illustrating
absurdity through paintings of
purposeless machines and
collages of discarded materials,
expressed their cynicism about
conventional ideas of form and
their rejection of traditional

Tristan Tzara- was

a Romanian and
French avant-garde
poet, essayist and
performance artist
whos said to be the
founder of Dadaist
movement.

II. CONTEMPORARY ART

CONTEMPORARY ART- is produced

at the present period in time. It
includes and develops from Post
Modern art which is itself a
successor of Modern art.

1. Abstract Expressionism- a
school of painting that flourished
after World War II until early
1960s, characterized by the view
that art is non-representational
and chiefly improvisational.

Jackson Pollock-An
influential American
painter and a major
figure in abstract. He
was well known and
for his unique style
of drip painting.

2. Pop art- is an art movement

that emerged in in the mid-1950s
and the late 1950s in the United
states. It presented a challenge to
traditions of fine art by including
popular culture such as
advertising, news and etc.

Andy Warhol- the

leader of Pop-art
movement.

3. Optical art-(Op art) it is a method

of painting concerning the interaction
between illusion and picture plane,
between understanding and seeing. Op
artworks are abstract, with many of
the better known as pieces made in
black and white.

4. Kinetic art- Any art form and

medium that contains movement
perceivable by the viewer or
depends on motion for its effect.

5. Minimal Art- describes movements

in various forms of art and design,
especially visual art and music, where
the work is set out to expose the
essence, essentials or identity of a
subject through eliminating all nonessential forms, features or concepts.
As a specific movement in the arts it is
identified with developments in post
World War II Western Art.