Modern Art Eras and Characteristics - ShowFlipper

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• Modern Art
• Eras and Characteristics

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Introduction

• The Modern Art Movement started in the 1900 and
  is still going strong.
• The Modern Art Movement has five different and
  distinct eras of influences.

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Cubism

• Showing all views of an object at the same time
  with lots of squared and triangle shapes.
• This artmovement lasted from 1907 to 1922.
• Two events marked the beginning of Cubism.
• The first was Picasso returning to Paris from his
  home in Catalonia with his painting Les
  Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).
• In its radical distortion of the figures, its
  rendering of volumes as fragmented planes, and
  its subdued palette, this work predicted some of
  the key characteristics of later Cubism.

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Cubism

• Secondly, Braque made a series of landscape
  paintings in the summer of 1908, in which trees
  and mountains were rendered as shaded cubes and
  pyramids, resembling architectural forms.
• It was this series that led French art critic
  Louis Vauxcelles to describe them as Bizarreries
  Cubiques" thus giving the movement its name.

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Surrealism

• Paid attention to dreams and fantasies!
• Surrealism lasted from 1922 to late 1966.
• It was a twentieth century avant-garde art
  movement.

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Surrealism

• This movement in art originated in the nihilistic
  (rejection of) ideas of the Dadaist and French
  literary figures, especially those of its
  founder, French writer André Breton (1896-1966).
• At first a Dadaist, he wrote three manifestos
  about Surrealism in 1924, 1930, and 1934, and
  opened a studio for "surrealist research."

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Abstract Expressionism

• Unconventional types of paints and ways to apply
  paints!
• This art movement lasted from 1943 to 1965.  

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Abstract Expressionism

• Almost all of painters who later became abstract
  painters in the late 1930's 1940's in New York
  were stamped by the experience of the great
  depression.
• It influenced them to make art based on their
  personal experience.

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Pop Art

• Reaction to abstraction that focused on
  commercial images and popular culture.
• This art movement lasted from the 1950's to the
  1970's.
• In London in 1952 a group of artists calling
  themselves the independant group began meeting
  regularly to discuss topics such as mass
  culture's place in the arts. 
• The actual term "Pop-Art" has many possible
  origins.

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Pop Art

• The first use of the term has been attributed to
  both Lawrence Alloway and Alison Peter
  SMithson.
• The first artwork to incorporate the word "Pop"
  is said to have been produced by Paolozzi's
  collage "I was a rich man's plaything" (1947).
• The image contained cut-up images of a girl,
  coke-cola logo, cherry pie, World War II fighter
  plane, a man holding a pistol out which bursts
  the word "Pop" in a puffy white cloud. 

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Contemporary Art

• Art that is increasingly based on electronic
  media.
• This art movement started in 1945 Post WWII and
  continues in the present.
• Embodies the idea of always moving forward and
  constantly changing.
• Great works ranging from the late 19th century
  VanGogh, Gaugin, and Monet's to works produced
  today (i.e. sculptures, media and multi-media
  art .

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