Arts Lesson 1 - Classifying Artwork Sub-movements

A. CLASSIFY ME! Directions: Classify each artwork below as to the art sub-movement it belongs to. Choose your answer from the word pool below. Write your answers in your notebook. Abstract Realism Cubism Dadaism Mob Art Op Art P...

A. CLASSIFY ME! Directions: Classify each artwork below as to the art sub-movement it belongs to. Choose your answer from the word pool below. Write your answers in your notebook. Abstract Realism Cubism Dadaism Mob Art Op Art Performance Art Pop Art Surrealism 1. Surrealism 2. Pop Art 3. Op Art 4.Cubism 5. Dadaism 6. Surrealism 7. Performance 8. Abstract 1 Art Realism  Arts Defining Modern Art Modern art Modern Art represents an evolving set of ideas among a number of painters, sculptors, writers and performers who– both individually and collectively- sought approaches to art making. Modern art began, in remembrance, around 1850 with the arrival of Realism, approaches and styles of art were defined and redefined throughout the 20th century. Classical and Early Modern Art One of the prevalent characteristic throughout these early modern era was an idealization of subject matter, whether human, natural or situational. Artist typically painted not what they perceived with subject eyes but rather what they perceived wit subject eyes but rather what they envisioned as the personification of their subject. The Artist Perspective and Modern Art European painters began to experiment with simple act of observation. Artist aimed to portray people and situations objectively, imperfections and all, rather than creating an idealized rendition of the subject. This radical approach to art would come to comprise the broad school of art known as Realism.  REALISM The first modern artist to essentially stand on his own in this regard was Gustave Courbet, who in the mid-19th century sought to develop his own distinct style. This was achieved in the large part with his painting from 1849-1850, Burial at Ornan, which scandalized the French art world by portraying the funeral of a common man from a peasant village.  The Avant-Garde and the Progression of Modern art The avant-garde is the term that derives from the French “vanguard,” the lead division going into battle, literally advance guard, and its designation within modern art is very much like its military namesake. Art styles and various art movements  IMPRESSIONISM The name ‘Impressionism’ comes from sarcastic review of Monet’s painting, ‘Impression, Sunrise’ (1873), written by Louis Leroy in the satirical magazine ‘Le Charivari’. Impressionism is the name given to a colorful style of painting in France at the end of the 19th century. The impressionist searched for a more exact analysis of the effect of color and light in nature. They sought to capture the atmosphere of a particular time of the day or the effects of different weather conditions.  IMPRESSIONISM The impressionist were the first group of artist to embrace painting ‘en plain er’ (painting outside). Among the most Important Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Henri de Touluse Lautrec. Claude Monet (1840-1926 ‘waterlilies and Japanese Bridge’ 1899(oil on canvas) EXPRESSIONISM Expressionism is a term that embraces an early 20th century style of arts, music and literature that is charged with and emotional and spiritual vision of the world. Expressionist artist chose to look inwards to discover a from of ‘self-expression’ that offered them an individual voice in a world that they perceived as both insecure and hostile.  “THE SCREAM” EDVARD MUNCH This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY  CUBISM It is an early 20 century art movement that made innovations in paintings and sculpture in Europe. The art style derived its name from the cube, a three dimensional geometric figure which is composed of measured lines, planes, and angles. The artworks of the cubist artists are a play combination of planes and angles on a flat surface. Cubism was considered as the most influential art movement of the 20th century.  THREE MUSCIAN By; Pablo Picasso. It is believed that three musicians on the canvas is not easy abstract personalities, but specific people. Girl Before A Mirror, 1932 by Pablo Picasso Girl Before Mirror was painted in March 1932. The young girl was named Marie Therese Walter and was painted multiple times during the 1930's by Picasso.  Pablo Ruiz Picasso He was born on October 25, 1881. was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer. He spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he was known for his co- founding the Cubist movement, inventing constructed sculpture, co-inventing collage, and developing wide variety of styles. DADAISM Dadaism was an artistic movement in the early 20th century, practiced by a group of European writers, artist, and intellectual in protest against world war I. the artworks showed rejection of the logic, reason, and aestheticism and expressed nonsense, irrationality and anti-elite protest in their works. It is style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual tricks and surprises as seen in the paintings of Marc Chagall and Giorgio de Chirico. Melancholy and Mystery of a Street By: Giorgio de Chirico, 1914 Oil on Canvas The painting represents an encounter between two figures: a small girl running with a hoop and a statue that is present in the painting only through its shadow. SURREALISM Surrealism was the 2oth century art movement that explored the hidden depths of the ‘unconscious mind’. The surrealist rejected the rational world as ‘it only allows for the consideration of those facts relevant to our experiences’. They sought new kind of reality, a heightened reality that they called ‘surreality’, which was found in world of images drawn from their dreams and imagination.  I AND THE VILLAGE Marc Chagall, 1911 Oil on Canvas 'I and the Village' illustrates the give and take between beings and the vibrant natural world surrounding them. It is a powerful display of the mutual relationship between humans, animals and plants.  Marc Chagall He was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. As an early modernist, he was associated with several major artist styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustration, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic tapestries and fine art prints.  Pop Art Pop art is an art movement that arose in the United Kingdom and the United States of America during the mid- to late-1950s. Pop Art included different styles of painting and sculpture but all had in common interest in mass media, mass production and mass culture. The word ‘POP’ was first coined in 1954, by the British art critic Lawrence Alloway, to describe a new type of art that was inspired by the imagery of popular culture.  POPULAR ART (POP ART) Pop art is an art movement that arose in the United Kingdom and the United States of America during the mid- to late- 1950s. One of its objectives is to use images of popular culture in art, emphasizing the Whaam! banal or kitschy elements of any culture, Roy Linchenstein, most often through the use of 1963 irony. Acrylic and oil on canvas  POPULAR ART (POP ART) Their inspirations were the celebrities, advertisements, billboards, and comic strips that were becoming popular at that time which led to the emergence of the term pop (from “popular”) art. In the car Roy Linchenstein, 1963  OPTICAL ART (OP ART) Optical Art or Op Art is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s. This is an experiment in visual experience as a form of “action painting” with the action Current taking place in the viewer’s eye. Bridget Riley. 1964 Lines, spaces, and colors are Synthetic Polymer carefully and precisely planned, Paint on Composition visualized and positioned in op art to Board illustrate the illusion of movement  Bridget Louise Riley She was born on April 24, 1931. Was an English painter known for singular op art paintings. She lived and worked in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France. Thank You