Modern Arts

1. MODERN ART
Modern art embraces a wide variety of movements,
theories, and attitudes whose modernism resides particularly in a
tendency to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and
conventions in an effort to create an art more in keeping with
changed social, economic, and intellectual conditions.

2. Father of Modern Art Work
 Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a
French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the
foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception
of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of
art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge
between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th
century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line
attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the
father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.
 Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, tone,
composition and draughtsmanship. His often repetitive,
sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic
and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small
brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields, at once both
a direct expression of the sensations of the observing eye and
an abstraction from observed nature.

3. PAUL CEZANNE (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906)

4. Cezzane’s art works

5. CLASSIFICATION OF MODERN
MOVEMENTS
 Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design
style that began in Paris in the 1920s and
flourished internationally throughout the
1930s, into the World War II era. The style
influenced all areas of design, including
architecture and interior design,
industrial design, fashion and jewelry, as
well as the visual arts such as painting,
graphic arts and film. At its best, Art Deco
represented elegance, glamour,
functionality and modernity.

8. Art Nouveau
 Art Nouveau, is an international philosophy
and style of art, architecture and applied
art—especially the decorative arts—that
were most popular during 1890–1905. The
name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art".
It is known also as Jugendstil. Art Nouveau
is a philosophy of design according to which
artists should work on everything from
architecture to furniture, making art part
of ordinary life.

11. Abstract
 Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and
line to create a composition which may exist with a
degree of independence from visual references in the
world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up
to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the
logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an
illusion of visible reality.
 But Abstract has no exact or recognizable
representation of images and thus, proper strokes in
applying pigments are not required.

14. CUBISM
 Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art
movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso (full
name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y
Picasso) and Georges Braque, that
revolutionized European painting and
sculpture, and inspired related movements in
music, literature and architecture. In cubist
artworks, objects are shown from several
positions or different sides at one time.
 Cubism is represented through geometrical
forms.

16. LES NOCES DE PIERETTE(The Marriage of Pierette-most
valuable work of Picasso in 2000

17. DADAISM
 Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich,
Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to
1922. he movement primarily involved visual arts,
literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre,
and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war
politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in
art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to
ridicule what its participants considered to be the
meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to
being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and
anarchist in nature.

19. fauvism
 Fauvism is the style of les Fauves
(French for "the wild beasts"), a short-
lived and loose group of early twentieth-
century Modern artists whose works
emphasized painterly qualities and strong
color over the representational or
realistic values retained by
Impressionism. The leaders of the
movement were Henri Matisse and André
Derain.
 It is being represented in concept of
colors.

21. futurism
 Futurism was an artistic and social movement
that originated in Italy in the early 20th
century. It emphasized and glorified themes
associated with contemporary concepts of the
future, including speed, technology, youth and
violence, and objects such as the car, the
airplane and the industrial city. Futurism
influenced art movements such as Art Deco,
Constructivism, Surrealism, Dada, and to a
greater degree, Rayonism and Vorticism.
 It is represented through machine age and
speed.

23. Op art
 Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of
visual art that makes use of optical illusions.
"Optical art is a method of painting
concerning the interaction between illusion
and picture plane, between understanding
and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with
many of the better known pieces made in
only black and white. When the viewer looks
at them, the impression is given of
movement, hidden images, flashing and
vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of
swelling or warping.

25. pointillism
 Pointillism is a technique of painting
in which small, distinct dots of pure
color are applied in patterns to form
an image. Georges Seurat developed
the technique in 1886, branching from
Impressionism. The term Pointillism
was first coined by art critics in the
late 1880s to ridicule the works of
these artists, and is now used without
its earlier mocking connotation.

27. realism
 Realism in the arts concerns the depiction of subjects as
they appear in everyday life.

28. POP ART
 Pop art is a movement that emerged in the mid-20th
century in which artists incorporated common place
objects—comic strips, soup cans, newspapers, and
more—into their work.

29. POP ART
 Perhaps the most well-known artistic
development of the 20th century, Pop art
emerged in reaction to consumerism, mass
media, and popular culture. This movement
surfaced in the 1950s and gained major
momentum throughout the sixties. Pop art
transitioned away from the theory and
methods used in Abstract Expressionism, the
leading movement that preceded it. Instead,
it drew upon everyday objects and media like
newspapers, comic books, magazines, and
other mundane objects to produce vibrant
compositions, establishing the movement as a
cornerstone of contemporary art.

30. surrealism
 Surrealist works feature the
element of surprise,
unexpected juxtapositions and
non sequitur; however, many
Surrealist artists and writers.
 Images are represented mainly
in the realm of dreams and the
unconscious mind.

32. Conceptual art
 sometimes simply called
conceptualism, is art in which the
concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the
work take precedence over
traditional aesthetic, technical, and
material concerns. Some works of
conceptual art, sometimes called
installations, may be constructed by
anyone simply by following a set of
written instructions

34. Installation/
assemblage art
 is an artistic form or medium
usually created on a defined
substrate that consists of three-
dimensional elements projecting
out of or from the substrate. It is
similar to collage, a two-
dimensional medium. It is part of
the visual arts, and it typically
uses found objects, but is not
limited to these materials.[

35. assemblage

36. Performance art
 is a performance presented to an
audience within a fine art context,
traditionally interdisciplinary.
Performance may be either scripted
or unscripted, random or carefully
orchestrated, spontaneous or
otherwise carefully planned with or
without audience participation. The
performance can be live or via
media; the performer can be present
or absent.

38. When I work, I work very fast, but
preparing to work can take any
length of time.
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