MODERN

ART
 MODERN ART

■ Refers to works produced during the

approximate period 1860- 1970(19th cent. to
the mid-20th cent. )
■ Throwing out of the OLD, embracing of the
NEW.
■ There is more of EXPERIMENTATION in new
ways of seeing ideas about how art functions.
■ Modern art was about the people, places and
ideas that the artist had DIRECT CONTACT
WITH.
■ Modern Art also witnessed the emergence of
 Impressionism
■ This painting
started the
Impressionisti
c movement.
■ Light and
color were
more
important
than clear,
sharp Impression, Sunrise by Claude
Monet, 1872.
images.
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.
 Surrealis
■ Images in this m
style are not
logical.
■ Metal attracts
ants like rotting
flesh.
■ Limp watches
suggest that
time has lost all
meaning.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali,
■ Can you see a 1933.
face in the
center?
 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.
 Cubism
■ This style use
geometric shapes
like circles,
squares, and
triangles.
■ There is no
realistic detail.
■ The image is flat,
two-dimensional, Head of Marie-Therese by
and fragmented. Pablo Picasso, 1938.
 Cubis
m
■Geometric
shapes were
used with this
modern style
of painting.
■How many
triangles can
you count?
Girl With a Boat by Pablo
Picasso, 1938.
Abstract

■ Yellow Grey Black

by Jackson Pollock
(1947)
 OTHER
CONTEMPORARY
ARTS
MOVEMENTS
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.
 Pop Art
■ Everyday items are
the subjects of this
style.
■ Television,
magazines, and
comic books gave
the painters of this
style most of their Campbell’s Soup Can by Andy
ideas. Warhol, 1964.

■ Pop means popular.

Neo-Pop Art
■ postmodernist art movement founded on the
principle that art is a 'concept' rather than a
material object.
■  postmodern art movement of the 1980s. The term
refers to artists influenced by pop art and pop
culture imagery, such as Jeff Koons, but also
artists working in graffiti and cartoon art, such as 
Keith Haring. Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is
described as the first of the Japanese neo-pop
artists to "break the ice in terms of recycling
Japanese pop culture". Japanese neo-pop is
associated with the otaku subculture and the
obsessive interests in anime, manga and other
forms of pop culture. Artists such as Kenji Yanobe
 exemplify this approach to art and fandom.
 Photorealism
■ Artists whose work
depended heavily on
photographs, which they
often projected
ontocanvas allowing
images to be replicated
withprecision and
accuracy.
■ Photorealists acknowledge
the modern world's mass
production and
proliferation of
photographs, and they do
not deny their dependence
on photographs.
Conceptualism

■ art for which the idea (or concept) behind

the work is more important than the
finished art object. It emerged as an art
movement in the 1960s and the term
usually refers to art made from the mid-
1960s to the mid-1970s.
■ In conceptual art the idea or concept is the
most important aspect of the work. When
an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it
means that all of the planning and decisions
are made beforehand and the execution is a
perfunctory affair.
Installation Art
■  is a new art form which came to attention in the
USA during the 1960s, although the idea dates
back to the Surrealist exhibitions created by
Marcel Duchamp and others
■ The resulting arrangement of material and space
comprises the "artwork".
■ is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works
that often are site-specific and designed to
transform the perception of a space. Generally,
the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas
exterior interventions are often called public art, 
land art or intervention art; however, the
boundaries between these terms overlap.
The
Hated
Flower
made from
thousands
of real
flowers,
suspended
with copper
wire.
Earth Art
■ Earth art, also referred to as Land art or
Earthworks, is largely an American movement
that uses the natural landscape to create site-
specific structures, art forms, and sculptures. 
■ The favored materials for Earthworks were those
that could be extracted directly from nature, such
as stones, water, gravel, and soil. Influenced by
prehistoric artworks such as Stonehenge, Earth
artists left their structures exposed to the
elements. The resulting ephemerality and
eventual disintegration of the works put them
outside of the mainstream where works of art
were typically coddled and protected in controlled
environments.
 Street Art

■ Street Art can often be viewed as a tool for promoting an

artist's personal agenda surrounding contemporary social
concerns, with city facades acting in the same role as the old
fashioned soapbox; a place to extol the artist's opinion on a
myriad issues ranging from politics and environmentalism to
consumerism and consumption.
■ Many street artists use the public canvas of buildings,
bridges, lampposts, underpasses, ditches, sidewalks, walls,
and benches to assure their individual messages are seen by
a wide swath of the population, unfiltered by target
demographics or being accessible only to art world denizens.
Word Art

■ describes a category of text-based 

postmodernist art employed by several 
contemporary artists since the 1950s. A simple
definition of text-based art might read: "art that
includes words or phrases as its primary
artistic component". Text-based imagery
featuring words and phrases has appeared in a
variety of different media including painting and
sculpture, lithography and screenprinting as well
as applied art (T-shirts, mugs). It also appears in
the latest forms of contemporary art, like
projection mapping.
 Minimali
sm
• 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
Contempo
rary
Photograp
Contemporary
hy
photography could be
described as a photograph
from our own time,
compared to an image
from a much earlier period.
A relevant definition of the
word contemporary is:
“happening in the same
period of time..of or in the
style of the present or
recent times