Reviewer in Art Q1

REVIEWER IN ART
Modern Art
> In all 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 (2) centuries, with world events and global trends being
in the various Art Movements.
Impressionism
- An art movement that emerged in the second half of the 19th century among group of
Paris- based artists.
- The name IMPRESSIONISM was coined from the title artwork by French painter
CLAUDE MONET
(“Impression, Sunrise “) in 1972, Oil Canvass
IMPRESSIONISM
• Enriched their colors with the idea that the shadow of an object is broken up with dashes
of its complementary color.
• The Impressionists sought to capture the atmosphere of a particular time of day or the
effects of different weather conditions on the landscape.
√ SHORT, BROKEN STROKES
× SOLID LINE
IMPRESSIONIST ARTISTS
CLAUDE MONET
• He basically started impressionism
• He is best known for landscape paintings, particularly those depicting his beloved flower
gardens and water lily ponds at his home on Giverny.
NAME OF EXAMPLE PAINTAINGS:
Impression, Sunrise La Promenade Irises in Monet’s Garden
Claude Monet Claude Monet, 1875 Claude Monet
Oil on canvas
AUGUSTE RENOIR
• His early works were snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light with actual
people.
Luncheon of the Boating Party
A Girl With a Watering Can
Auguste Renoir, 1881
Auguste Renoir, 1876
EXPRESSIONISM
• Expressionist artists created works with more emotional force, rather than realistic or
natural images
• More of distorted outlines, applied strong colors, and exaggerated forms
• Works with imagination and feelings, rather than what their eyes saw
*EMOTIONAL FORCE
*DISTORTED OUTLINES
*UNREALISTIC OR UNNATURAL IMAGES
Arts Style from EXPRESSIONISM

Neoprimitivism
It was an art style which is the combination of the native arts of the South Sea Islanders and the
wood carvings of African tribes which suddenly became popular at that time.
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Yellow Sweater
Amedeo Modigliani, 1919
VARIOUS STYLES
FAUVISM
 Used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.
HENRI MATISSE
Woman with a Hat
Blue Window
Henri Matisse, 1905
Henri Matisse, 1911
DADAISM
It was a style characterized by dream, fantasies, memory images, and visual tricks and surprises.
Art works produced by dada artists is often satirical and
nonsensical in nature
Street Music Melancholy and Mystery of a Street I and the Village
Theo Van Doesburg, 1915 Giorgio De Chirico, 1914 Marc Chagall, 1911
SURREALISM
Its name came from the term “super realism,”with its artworks clearly expressing a departure
from reality—as though the artists were dreaming, seeing illusions, or experiencing an altered
mental state.
Many surrealist works appeared morbid and gloomy subjects.
Persistence of Memory
Personages with Star
Salvador Dali, 1931
Paul Klee, 1932
SOCIAL REALISM
>The movement known as social realism expressed the artist’s role in social reform.
>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 seek reforms.
Miner’s Wives Guernica
Ben Shahn, 1948 Pablo Picasso
ABSTRACTIONISM
>LOGICAL AND RATIONAL >PATTERNS >TEXTURES
>GEOMETRICAL SHAPES >LINES >SWIRLS OF COLOR
2 Types of ABSTRACTIONISM 2. Pure Abstractionism
1. Representational Abstractionism where no recognizable depicts
still-recognizable subjects. subject could be discerned.
Oval Still Life (Le Violon) The Spring (La Source)

Georges Braque, 1914 Francis Picabia,1912
Arts Style from ABSTRACTIONISM
1. CUBISM- The cubist style derived its name from the cube, a three-dimensional
geometric figure composed of strictly measured lines, planes, and angles.
Cubist artworks were, therefore, a play of planes and angles on a flat surface.
Foremost among the cubists was Spanish painter/sculptor Pablo Picasso.
Three Musicians Girl with a Mandolin

Pablo Picasso, 1921 Pablo Picasso, 1910
2. FUTURISM
They admired the motion, force, speed, and strength of mechanical forms—as can be seen in the
works of Italian painter
Gino Severini
Armored Train
Gino Severini, 1915
3. MECHANICAL STYLE
This can be seen in the works of
Fernand Léger
The City
Fernand Léger, 1919
4. NON-OBJECTIVISM
From the very term “non-object,” works in this style did not make use of figures or even
representations of figures. Lines, shapes, and colors were used in a cool, impersonal approach
that aimed for balance, unity, and stability. Colors were mainly black, white, and the primaries
(red, yellow, and blue).
New York City
Piet Mondrian, 1942
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Abstract Expressionism is a term that referred to a movement in American painting that
flourished in New York City after World War II, sometimes appertained to the New York School
or, more narrowly, known as action painting. Abstract Expressionists artists shared an interest in
using abstraction to convey strong emotional or expressive content. Abstract Expressionism is
best known for large-scale paintings that break away from traditional processes, often taking the
canvas off of the easel and using unconventional materials such as house paint.
2 Types of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

1. ACTION PAINTING
It involved works on huge canvases spread on the floor, splattering, and dribbling paint with
(seemingly) no pre-planned pattern or design in mind.
One form of action painting was seen in the works of JACKSON POLLOCK.
Autumn Rhythm
Jackson Pollock,
1950
Jackson Pollock at work
2. COLOR FIELD PAINTING

Another group of artists who came to be known as “color field painters” used different color
saturations (purity, vividness, intensity) to create their desired effects.
Magenta, Black, Green on Orange Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Mark Rothko, 1949 Barnett Newman, 1950-
1951
COLOR FIELD PAINTING- Others took the more intimate “pictograph” approach, filling the
canvas with repeating picture fragments or symbols.
Forgotten Dream Abstract No. 2
Adolph Gottlieb, 1946 Lee Krasner, 1948

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Arts Style from EXPRESSIONISM

Oval Still Life (Le Violon) The Spring (La Source)

Three Musicians Girl with a Mandolin

2 Types of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Jackson Pollock at work

2. COLOR FIELD PAINTING

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