Prewar, Interwar, and Avant-Garde Artists PDF

MODERN A R T  SUNRISE (1872) How do you find the painting? What is your first impressioon of the artwork? Do you find the artwork interesting? Why or why not? Relate the title of the work to The painting itself.  MODERN ART is defined as works created some time between 1870...

MODERN A R T  SUNRISE (1872) How do you find the painting? What is your first impressioon of the artwork? Do you find the artwork interesting? Why or why not? Relate the title of the work to The painting itself.  MODERN ART is defined as works created some time between 1870 and 1970  MOVEMENTS IN E A R L Y AND PREWAR MODERN A R T Realism (1840s-1880's) Impressionism (1972-1892) Post-Impressionism (1880s-1940) Fauvism (1899-1908) Art Nouveau (1890-1905) Expressionism (1905-1993) Cubism (1902-1922) Futurism (1909-1920s)  REALISM (1840'S-1880'S) first movement in Modern Art The realists merged art and life bringing everyday it aimed at the precise life into their work. representation of human conditions, perspective and distance, and detailed Their subject matter was effects of color often street lifescenes and genre scenes of the Realists also used source lives of urban and rural lighting to recreate the working class. natural lighting of the scene.. Realist artists, such as Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet, and Adouard Manet, rejected the idealistic images of traditional art and became more interested with historical and cultural events.  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Fabian Dela Rosa Gustave Courbet 1869-1937 1819-1877 well-known for his realistic genre paintings. He rebelled against Mentored his nephew, Romanticism and focused his Fernando Amorsolo attention in depicting paintings portrayed the daily everyday events. life of the common Filipino. LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE STONE BREAKERS (1889) GUSTAVE COURBET LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES IN THE RICEFIELD (1919) FABIAN DELA ROSA  REALISM Yawning Apprentice Mihaly Muncaksy The Woman in the Waves Gustave Courbet  REALISM A Bar at the Folies-Bergere Adouard Manet REALISM Harvesters Resting Jean-Francois Millet  IMPRESSIONISM (1872-1892) Art critics and collectors at the They attempted to time went carefully finished objectively capture visual and realistic images, but the reality through the fleeting Impressionists rejected this effects of color and light. fine finish and detailed images. As artist Robert Delaunay Impressionists deliberately said "Impressionism; it is the left their works as if they were birth of ight in painting" unfinished. Overall, the Impressionists painters prioritized the following: Abandoning traditional linear Using color and light to unify perspectives. images. Avoiding clarity of form; Using pure intense colors on sometimes, Impressionist the canvas, instead of mixing paintings look undefined and a colors on the palette first. bit fuzzy. Using small brushstrokes and Moving from the studio to the dabs of paint. countryside or streets.  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Mary Cassat 1844-1926 Her favorite subjects were Felix Resurrecion domestic scenes featuring Hidalgo women, especially the intimacy between mothers 1855-1913 and children. These two artists Juan Luna mastered the use of light 1857-1899 LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE BOATING PARTY (1893) MARY CASSAT LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES YOUNG MOTHER SEWING (1900) MARY CASSAT LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES SPOLIARIUM (1884) JUAN LUNA LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES LA MARINA (1911) FELIX RESURRECCION HIDALGO  P O S T -IMPRESSIONISM (1880'S-1940) Both impressionist and post-impressionism painters depicted real- life subjects, and they used vivid colors, distinctive brushstrokes, and thick layers of paint. The major difference between these two movements is that the Post-impressionism attempted to achieve more form and structure. Impressionism focused on the objective recording of the momentary effects of light and color, whereas Post- Impressionism preferred a more ambitious expression. Post-impressionism artists want to connect the viewers with the artwork on a deeper and more meaningful level. The different styles in Post-impressionism can be grouped into opposing stylistic traditions: 1. geometric style 2. non-geometric or expressive style  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Paul Cezanne Victorio Edades 1839-1906 1895-1985 an influential painter whose moved away from the portrayals of the natural world, conventional single- which was based on interal point perspective geometric planes, inspired toward multiple points Cubism and other modern of view. artistic movements LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES MONT SAINTE-VICTOIRE (1886) PAUL CEZANNE LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE SKETCH THE ARTIST AND HIS MODEL (1900) VICTORIO EDADES LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE (1884-1886) GEORGE SEURAT LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE STARRY NIGHT (1899) VINCENT VAN GOGH  FAUVISM A highly fashionable (1899-1908) artistic movement succeeded the paintings Fauve artists used non- of Van Gogh, and other naturalistic and often brash post-impressionism colors. artists. The subject matter was varied They are actually known but often consisted of for their aggressive use landscape, still life, portrait and of pure, brilliant colors figure painting, views from a boldly applied straight window, and others. from paint tubes. Individual expression Fauve artists believed that their understanding of their subjects, their emotive response to nature, and their intuition were more valuable than glorified subject matter of theories of art.  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Henri Matisse Antonio Austria 1869-1954 1936-1970 Color was his foundation. a Filipino visual artist drawn to His favorite subjects were the and influenced by simple nude body, still life, and North subjects and day-to-day Filipinos Africa trademarks such as Jeepneys, As a fauvist he used bright colors sari-sari stores, and billiard autonomously without reference parlors as seen in his paintings and compositions. to the real color of objects. LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES WOMAN WITH A HAT (1905) Henri Matisse LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE CHATOU BRIDGE (1906) MAURICE DE VLAMINCK LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES KANGKONG AT GABI (1992) ANTONIO AUSTRIA LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE FRUIT VENDOR (1939) NORMA BELLEZA  ART NOVEAU (1890-1905) The movement was named The art style was not only applied after a shop in France, La in the fine arts, but it is also Maison de l'Art Nouveau found its way in the interior (House of New Art) design and the decorative arts. Gustav Klimt (Austria) Architect Antoni Gaudi (Spain) illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (England) jewelry designer Rene Lalique (France) glassware designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (United States) CHARACTERISTICS: 1. it aimed at making beautiful things accessible to a wider public by applying designs to everyday objects. 2. There is no hierarchy between fine arts and decorative arts. 3. Inspired by both geometric and organic forms good craftmanship 4. The function of an obejct dictate its form, not the other way around A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Antoni Gaudi 1852-1926 eclectic and deeply personal style, which inspired other artists in their designs in architecture, sculpture, gardens, and decorations. LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES EL HOGAR FILIPINO BUILDING (1914) RAMON IRURETA- GOYENA & FRANCISCO PEREZ- MUNOZ LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES MANILA'S UY CHACO BUILDING (1914)  EXPRESSIONISM (1905-1933) Expressionist artists sought not to record their observations of the objective reality, but to interpret the emotions and subjective responses aroused within a person. While impressionists aimed at reproducing nature, the concern of Expressionists was in the expression of their feelings about the people, objects, or events that they saw. exaggerated and distorted representations employed bold and intense colors and strong outlines incorporated primitive and fantasy used swaying, swirling, and quality of an artwork is now dramatically executed strokes in measured based on the emotions portraying subjects. evoked instead of its formal elements. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists ANXIETY 1894 Edvard Munch 1863-1944 productive but somewhat eternally troubled artists mortality, illness, religious aspiration, sexual libreation A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists THE SCREAM 1893 Edvard Munch 1863-1944 productive but somewhat eternally troubled artists mortality, illness, religious aspiration, sexual libreation A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists ANG KIUKOK distorted figures in their work to express the intense emotions in the country that had turbulent sociopolitical atmosphere at the time. FISHERMEN 1981  CUBISM (1902-1922) artistic movement that made use of totally fragmented objects presented in many angles. Cubism is usually classified into two stages: ANALYTIC CUBISM SYNTHETIC CUBISM In the first phase, artists showed artists began using foreign objects not how the eye perceived materials such as newspaper, and them, but how the mind perceived chair caning as abstract signs. forms. CUBISM valued depiction of intellectual idea of an object, as well as how it was related to each others. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 most prolifically imaginative and versatile painter in the 20th century The Weeping Woman 1937  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 most prlifically imaginative and versatile painter in the 20th century Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907 LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR (1932) PABLO PICASSO LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES TWO GIRLS READING (1934) PABLO PICASSO LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE KISS (1925) PABLO PICASSO A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists TWO FISH 1951 Hernando R. Ocampo 1911-1978 developed abstract art inspired by indigenous design and by Picasso's synthetic phase of Cubism. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Women Feeding Chickens 1979 Anita Magsaysay-Ho 1914-2012 angular lines (that replaced the conventional curved lines)  FUTURISM (1909-1920S) this art movement emphasized machine and modernization. futurist artists condemned the old They wanted to show the beauty of and celebrated the machine age, modern life - the splendor and focusing the vitality of urban world, magnificenceof change, violence, especially its advanced science and machine, and speed. technology. A futurist painting basically brings to mind the sight, the noise, the heat, the smell, and even the "taste" of the city.  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash Giacomo Balla 1871-1958 1937 one of the founding members of the futurist movement in art, which emphasized speed, technology, and modernity. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists The Cyclist (1913) A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Simultaneous Visions (1912)  MOVEMENTS IN I N T E R W A R MODERN A R T DADA ((1916-1924) SURREALISM( (1924-1966) DE STIJL (1917-1931) SOCIAL REALISM (1929-1950'S)  DADA (1916-1924) is considered the first major anti-art, antiestablishment, anti- bourgeouis movement. the aim of this anarchistic avant- against the culture and the value garde art was to subvert and system of the dominant undermine the arts establishment, establishment, which made World which Dada artists overwhelmingly War I possible. elite. generated debates about the Dada is famous for its "ready purpose of art and the mades" or mundane objects that responsibility of the artist. artists bought or picked and presented as art with little or no manipulation.  A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 one of the most important figures in the Dada movement. Father of Conceptual Art The Fountain (1917) A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 one of the most important figures in the Dada movement. Father of Conceptual Art L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Roberto Chabet 1937-2013) his works explore the fleeting nature of everyday objects and the disruption that occurs with the displacement of these objects. Piero (1999)  SURREALISM (1924-1966) this artistic movement emphasized the psychological aspects of art including the role of the subconsciouis and the unconscious. Surrealists employed a number used dreamlike perception of of techniques including space as well as dream-inspired hallucinations, dreams, and imagery such as melting facial random image generation. profiles and melting watches, ants, and huge metronomes. VERISTIC SURREALISM ABSOLUTE SURREALISM connection between real employed spontaneous techniques material forms and abstract (psychic automatism) forms. to express subconscious ideas. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Frida Kahlo 1907-1954 brave representation of the female form and experience in her works. The Wounded Deer (1946) LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES GOLCONDA RENE MAGRITTE 1953 LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES REPLY TO RED YVES TANGUY 1943 A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Juvenal Sanso 1929- shadowy nocturnal mood, have surrealist undertone. Underwater (1946) A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Prudencio Lamarozza 1943- combines in his works realistic landscapes and figures with abstract form. Remnants from the Sky  DE STIJL ( T H E S T Y L E ) (1917-1931) simple and direct approach to art. this movement worked primarily using abstraction in investigating laws of equilibrium observed in both art and life. they emphasized primary colors (RYB) and neutral colors (WBG), straight lines, unadorned geometric shapes and forms (usually squares and rrectangles) related to NEOPLASTICISM, which proposed that art's true purpose was the expression of life's absolutes, not the reproduction of real objects. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 one of the founding members of De Stijl known for his use of primary colors, perpendicular lines, and grids in his paintings. ought to reduce his subjects down to their most simploe elements. composition with large red plane yellow black gray and blue (1921) A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Constancio Bernardo 1913-2003 The chromatic and geometric abstraction of Mondrain found the support. PERPETUAL MOTION 1952 LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES WILD FLOWER SERIES CONSTANCIO BERNARDO 1977 SOCIAL REALISM (1929-1950S) commentaries on political, economic, and social conditions social realists positioned themselves as critical members of society, not elites working for the ruling class Social realists emphasized that the radical social critiques in their works made them modern. A V A N T E - GARDE ARTISTS Notable Western and Filipino Modern Artists Paraskeva Clark 1898-1986 one of the artists who used art not only for creative and personal development, but also for the expression of zealous political convictions. PETROUSHKA (1937) LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE SPOLIARIUM JUAN LUNA 1884 LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES THE BUILDERS VICTORIO EDADES 1928 LOOK A T THE EXAMPLES ITAK SA PUSO NI MANG JUAN ANTIPAS DELOTAVO 1977