The Moderns

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The Moderns

• lart pour lart
• art for arts sake

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Basics about the era

• 1850 to 1900
• Art needs no justification (a reflection of
  aestheticism a philosophy which is a reaction to
  utilitarianism)
• Artists work for themselves and for their own
  artistic values
• Invention of photography introduces a new art
  form

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Realism Gustave Courbet
The Stormy Sea (1869)

• A style based on the theory that the method of
  artistic presentation should be true to life.

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Jean-Francois MilletThe Gleaners (1857)
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Realism

• Faithful representation of reality.
• Honore Daumier
• Third Class Carriage

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My effort has been to give the human touch
"which makes the whole world kin" and which ever
remains the same. - H.O. TannerThe Banjo
Lesson1893
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Impressionism Claude Monet
Water Lilies

• An approach that evokes subjective and sensory
  impressions, including mood.

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Claude Monet (1840-1926)

• Regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that
  his devotion to the ideals of the movement was
  unwavering throughout his long career.It is
  fitting that one of his pictures, Impression
  Sunrise
• gave the group his name.

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Regatta at Argenteuil (1872)
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La Japonaise (1876)Claude Monet was facinated
with Japanese art. He collected Japanese prints
and was influenced by their style.
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The Japanese Bridge (c. 1918)
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Vincent VanGogh(1853 1890)

• Possibly the greatest Dutch painter after
  Rembrandt
• He influenced the current of modern art.
• His work was produced during a period of only 10
  years. He uses striking colour, coarse
  brushwork, and contoured forms.
• He suffered from mental illness that eventually
  resulted in suicide.

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The Starry Night (1889)
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The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise(1890)
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Still Life of Sun Flowers
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Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire (1900)
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All of his objects are full of life "We may
think that a sugar bowl doesn't have a body or a
soul. But it changes everyday. You have to get to
know it, to earn its trust..."  

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James WhistlerArrange-ment in Grey and
Black1871
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841 - 1919

• Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough
  unpleasant things in the world.

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The Luncheon of the Boating Party 1881
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The Umbrellas (1886)

• Renoir was attempting to move away from the
  Impressionist style, to a structural one. He met
  Paul Cezanne. The Umbrellas very clearly
  exemplifies this period in Renoirs life, and is
  two paintings in one the figures on the right
  are painted in the Impressionist style, while
  those on the left as well as the umbrellas show
  the attempt to use the new style and form.

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Post-Impressionsism

• A diverse art style in which the essentials of
  perception are portrayed through concentration on
  light, atmosphere and color.

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Paul GauginThe Women of Tahiti (1893)
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Expressionism

• A visual and performace style that seeks to
  express the artists emotions rather than
  accurately represent line or form.

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Wassily Kandinsky Autumn in Bavaria (1908)
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Cubism

• A style that violates the usual concepts of
  two and three dimensional space and involves use
  of geometric shapes.

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a
  lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the
  truth that is given to us to understand.
• The Old Guitarist (1904)

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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)

• Picasso invited the viewer to examine the
  figures and shapes that he broke down and
  recombined in totally new ways. In this portrait,
  the subject, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a dealer
  who championed Picassos radical new style, has
  been fractured into various planes and shapes,
  and is presented from several points of view.
  From flickering, partially transparent planes of
  brown, gray, black, and white emerges his upper
  torso, hands clasped in his lap.

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