Modern Art

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Modern Art
Eras and Characteristics
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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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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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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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Paid attention to dreams and fantasies! Surrealis
m lasted from 1922 to late 1966. It was a
twentieth century avant-garde art movement.
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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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Unconventional types of paints and ways to apply
paints!
This art movement lasted from 1943 to 1965.
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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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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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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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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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