Modern Art

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Modern Art

• Surrealism to Present Day

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Your Test

• You will take you test on line. It will be
  availbable April 27th until May 8th. It will
  cover the information from this PowerPoint AND
  the those questions that the class scored poorly
  on the 5th week exams. Those questions will be
  posted by Friday.

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Surrealism

• A style of art in which dreams, fantasy, and
  subconscious served as an inspiration for
  artists.
  
• Major Surrealist artists
• Dali
• Magritte
• Miró
• Klee
• Tanguay

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Yves Tanguy, Indefinite Divisibility 1942
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Non-Obejective Art/ Non-Representational art

• Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after
  1912 Mondrian, (pronounced Dutch IPA pit
  'm?ndrian, later IPA pit 'm?nd?i?n), (March
  7, 1872February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter.
• He was an important contributor to the De
  Stijl art movement and group, which was founded
  by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved
  a non-representational form which he
  termed Neo-Plasticism. This consisted of a grid
  of vertical and horizontal black lines and the
  use of the three primary colours.1

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Regionalism and the America Scene

• Regionalism became an popular art style in which
  artists painted the scenes and event that were
  typical of their sections of America.
  
• Examples Thomas Hart Benton painted his native
  Missouri, John Steuart Curry painted Kansas and
  Grant Wood painted scenes of Iowa.

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Grant Wood, 1930 Oil on beaverboard 74.3 cm  62
.4 cm (29¼ in  24½ in)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Contributions of American Artists

• Stuart Davis
• He was born in Philadelphia to Edward Wyatt Davis
  and Helen Stuart Davis. His parents both worked
  in the arts. His father was the art editor of
  the Philadelphia Presswhile his mother was
  a sculptor. Davis studied painting, and art
  under Robert Henri, the leader of the
  early modern art group the Eight he was one of
  the youngest painters to exhibit in the
  controversial Armory Show of 1913

Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - 7th
Avenue Style, 1940,Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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• Georgia OKeeffee
• Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 March
  6, 1986) was an American artist.
  
• Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia
  O'Keeffe was born into a family of ten people and
  received widespread recognition for her technical
  contributions as well as challenging the
  boundaries of modern American artistic style.
  O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art
  since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for
  paintings in which she synthesized abstraction
  and representation in paintings of flowers,
  rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes

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• Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 June 9, 2000)
  was an African American painter he was married
  to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence
  referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though
  by his own account the primary influence was not
  so much French art as the shapes and colors of
  Harlem.1
• Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth
  century African American painters, a distinction
  shared with Romare Bearden. Lawrence was only in
  his twenties when his "Migration Series" made him
  nationally famous. The series of paintings was
  featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune magazine. The
  series depicted the epic Great Migration of
  African Americans from the rural South to the
  urban North.

The Black Press Urged the People to Leave the
South(Panel 34 of The Migration
Series)1940-41Tempera on gesso on composition
board18 x 12 in.The Museum of Modern Art, New
York
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Sample Test QuestionsAnswer as Bell work and
Turn in?

• What was the style of art that was based out of
  dreams and fantasy?
  
• Name one major artist of this style.
• What would you call art that doesnt represent
  any objects or things?
  
• Who created paintings that consisted of black
  stripes and primary colors?
  
• Why was Jacob Lawrence so important as an
  artist?
  
• Which artist painted the New Mexico landcape and
  used close ups of nature as artistic influences?
  

• The picture below would be an example of what
  popular style of American art and why?

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Art from 1945-Abstract Expressionism

• After World War II, an new art movement took hold
  in New York City. A group of artists such as
  Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hoffman,
  Clifford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and Franz
  Kline.
• Paint was applied on large canvases by dripping,
  splattering, and fast and active gestures. All
  the strokes, lines and colors were born out of
  the deep subconscious emotions and feelings that
  were not always understood by the artist.

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• Jackson Pollock was the first American abstract
  painter to be taken seriously in Europe.
  
• He studied Old Master paintings and mural
  paintings. He also posed for his teachers 1930
  murals at the New School for Social Research.
  Also at work at this time was Mexican muralist
  José Clemente Orozco. He was also exposed to
  David Alfaro Siquieros. Their experimental
  techniques and large scale art had a lasting
  impact on Pollock.

Jackson Pollock 1948 (96 in 48 in) Private col
lection

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William de Kooning (1904-1997)

• Born in Holland
• Moved to the US in 1926
• Most powerful and shocking were violent and
  brutal depictions of the woman figures.
  
• He used sweeping, expressive, and at times
  violent strokes.

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Minimalism

• A style of art in the early 1960s that was a
  direct reaction to abstract expressionism.
  Minimalist like Frank Stella, Robert Morris,
  Donald Judd, and Mark Rothko wanted to create art
  that was ultimately simple and it didnt
  represent anything except itself. Art for arts
  sake. Much of the art took on geometric forms.

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Pop Art

• An art style from the early 1960s that focused
  on making a truly American art form based on
  popular American icons and culture. These artist
  wanted to elevate the low art of mass produced
  icons, and elevate them to a high art level.
  This gave the artwork of media and masses a
  higher creditability.

• Main artist
• Andy Warhol
• Claes Oldenburg
• Roy Lichtenstein

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Photo Realism

• One of the leading art styles of the 1970s.
  Also, this style has been referred to
  hyper-realism in that it painted people and
  objects with such detail, it looked like a
  photograph.

• Chuck Close
• Audrey Flack
• Alfred Leslie
• Duane Hanson

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Op Art

• A style of art that tried to create an impression
  of movement on the picture surface by means of
  optical illusions
  
• Major artist
• Bridget Riley
• Yaacov Agam
• Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Artist of Note

• Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)
• Artist who wasnt regarded as photo realist, but
  noted for realistic details of scenes and
  subjects.
  
• Robert Rauchenberg (1925 2008) One of the most
  influential artists who spanned many different
  styles and media, including pop art, abstract
  expressionism, and neo-dadaism.
• Christo(1913-
• Conceptual artist who used the landscape and
  large scenes to depict his work.
  
• Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007)
• Chicago born artist mixed painting with sculpture
  with her shaped canvas
  

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Sculptors of Note of the 20th Century

• Jacques Lipschitz (1891-1973)
• His sculpture resemble the planes that the Cubist
  were trying to paint.
  
• Henry Moore (1898-1986)
• One of England most important and influential
  artists.
  
• He deconstructed his subjects in to basic forms
  and lines.
  
• Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
• Most known for his monumental sculptures and his
  moblies.
  
• A mobile is a construction made of shapes that
  are balanced and arranged on wire arms and
  suspended in such a way it would move.

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Bell Work Questions

• What was the style of art that use only basic
  shapes and design and was not out to represent
  anything?
  
• What style of art was also called
  hyper-realism?
  
• What style of art was Bridget Riley best know
  for?
  
• What style depicted American icons and culture?
• Painting that use loose brush stokes and covered
  large canvases was called?