ARTISTS, MOVEMENTS AND STYLES IN MODERN ART (1870-1930)

By arieletlin

  • IMPRESSIONISM (C.1870-1890)

    IMPRESSIONISM (C.1870-1890)
    -Colourful
    -Analyzing effects of different colours and graphical elements
    -Usually worked outside
    -Capturing of the atmosphere at a specific time of the day

  • POST IMPRESSIONISM (C.1885-1905)

    POST IMPRESSIONISM (C.1885-1905)
    -Rebellion against the limitations of Impressionism

  • FAUVISM (1905-1910)

    FAUVISM (1905-1910)
    -Happy and joyful
    -Colours should be used as the most important mechanism of expression
    -Very simple drawing

  • GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM (1905-1925)

    GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM (1905-1925)
    -Style that is charged with an emotional or spiritual vision of the world
    -Inspired by German Gothics

  • ABSTRACT ART (C.1907 ONWARDS)

    ABSTRACT ART (C.1907 ONWARDS)
    -Roots from Cubism
    -Artist uses visual elements independently as the actual subject of the work itself

  • CUBISM (1907-1915)

    CUBISM (1907-1915)
    -First abstract style of modern art
    -Ignore the traditions of perspective drawing and show you many views of a subject at one time
    -The Cubists believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and to revitalize their work, they drew on the expressive energy of art from other cultures

  • FUTURISM (1909-1914)

    FUTURISM (1909-1914)
    -Glorified industrialization, technology, and transport along with the speed, noise and energy of urban life
    -Futurist paints the subject itself seems to move around the artist

  • CONSTRUCTIVISM (C.1913-1930)

    CONSTRUCTIVISM (C.1913-1930)
    -Utopian glimpse of a mechanized modernity according to the ideals of the (Russian) October Revolution
    -Was not an art that was easily understood by the proletariat and it was eventually repressed and replaced by Socialist Realism

  • SUPREMATISM (C.1915-1925)

    SUPREMATISM (C.1915-1925)
    -Geometric style of abstract painting derived from elements of Cubism and Futurism
    -Rejected any use of representational images
    -Style of pure abstraction that advocated a mystical approach to a

  • DADA (C.1916-1922)

    DADA (C.1916-1922)
    -Artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural establishment of the time
    -An ‘anti art’ stance as it was intent on destroying the artistic values of the past
    -Aim of Dada was to create a climate in which art was alive to the moment and not paralysed by the corrupted traditions of the established order

  • SURREALISM (C.1924-1939)

    SURREALISM (C.1924-1939)
    -A positive response to Dada's negativity
    -Liberate the artist's imagination by tapping into the unconscious mind to discover a 'superior' reality - a 'sur-reality'
    -Surrealists drew upon the images of dreams, the effects of combining disassociated images, and the technique of 'pure psychic automatism', a spontaneous form of drawing without the conscious control of the mind

  • POP ART (1954-1970)

    POP ART (1954-1970)
    -Movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 60's
    -Brash, colorful, young
    -Fun and hostile to the artistic establishment
    -Included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in popular culture

  • MINIMALISM (1960-1975)

    MINIMALISM (1960-1975)
    -A further refinement of pure abstraction
    -An attempt to discover the essence of art by reducing the elements of a work to the basic considerations of shape, surface and materials
    -Art used hard-edged forms and geometric grid structure
    -Colour was simply used to define space or surface.