UNIT 1 ART
ART CULTURE IN THE
MODERN ERA
Lesson 1. Art Forms in the 20th Century
• Name the art movements and give a short
description of each.
• Identify a representative painting and the
painter for each movement
• Tell the contribution of Paul Cezanne to
modern art and describe how he painted
• Select one painting from any movement and
analyze it as to theme, subject matter and
the feelings it expresses.
• The word “MODERN” suggest what is up-to-date.
• Modern art is more difficult to understand by
laymen than traditional forms.
• One of the things that make modern painting and
sculpture hard to grasp is the sheer variety of
their styles.
• The movements vanish easily.
• Some “isms” emerge, flourish for a few years
then drop-out of fashion to be replaced by
another mode.
• The new trends of painting need the test of years
before it becomes clear whether the art is “good”
or if will go out of style and be forgotten.
Let us go back to the history of modern art
• Paul Cezanne- a French painter who made the first great
breakthrough in modern Art.
• He worked slowly and carefully
• He even destroyed many of his works before finally
reaching a new kind of art.
• He felt that the shapes in painting counted most.
• He changed the shapes of the objects he painted if he
thought it would make a better picture.
• His colors were bright and he let the brush strokes show
in his finished pictures.
• Cezanne led other artists to break the established
traditions in art.
Paintings of Paul Cezanne
• Fruit and Jug
Paintings of Paul Cezanne
Mount of St. Victoire
LANDSCAPE
Here Art Movements of the Modern Era from
the 20th to the 21st Century
1. IMPRESSIONISM
- Is the style that evolved in Paris in
the 1860s and continued into the
early 20th century.
- It is an art movement which
focused on showing the effects of
light on things at a different times
of the day.
How impressionists create paintings?
- They used unblended slashes of pure color
placed together to create a mode or
impression of a scene.
- The artists painted landscapes outdoors in
natural changing lights at different times of
the day.
- CLAUDE MONET was the leader of the
impressionists.
Impressionistic Paintings
LANDSCAPE
2. Post Impressionism
- With this , painters were influenced by the impressionists.
- They objected to the loss of composition arising from the
blurring of shapes.
a. Paul Cezanne – an original member aimed at regaining
structure modelling objects into solid-looking forms.
b. Vincent Van Gogh- most famous post impressionist took the
freedom of color to paint in his own deepest feelings about
a subject.
- he made expressionistic use of his feelings with twisted lines
and forms, intense colors and rich textures.
c. Paul Gauguin – combined structure and color into pattern,
flattening his shapes using the color of the tropical Tahiti.
- He created works that could be enjoyed for their decorative
appearance.
PYRAMID OF SKULL
Paul Cezanne’s Painting
STARRY STARRY NIGHT
Vincent Van Gogh’s Painting
Van Gogh’s Painting
PAUL GAUGUIN
3. FAUVISM
-Painters like Henri Matisse and Vassily
Kandinsky loved colors.
-they used bright colors, strong lines and
pattern in which seemed to burst from their
canvass and the unusual color combination
which created a kind and joyous feeling to
viewers.
-they earned the name LES FAUVES or wild
animals.
Painting of Vassily Kandinsky
The Woman
Painting of Henri Matisse
4. CUBISM
-it is a style of painting and sculpture developed
in the early 20th century characterized by an
emphasis on the formal structure of a work of
art and reduction of natural forms of their
geometrical equivalent.
-Cubism is a form of abstraction, in this style,
objects are first reduced into cubes and
flattened into two-dimensional shapes. These
are arranged in overlapping planes.
• Abstract art is conceived apart from any
concrete realities, or specific objects. It
pertains to the formal aspects of art in
emphasizing lines, colors and
generalized geometric forms.
• The artists also tried to show all the
sides of an object, reduces recognizable
geometric forms.
Pablo Picasso
The best known modern artist of Cubism
Girl, Before a Mirror, 1932 Oil Canvass
Pablo Picasso
FACTORY
PABLO PICASSO
PIET MONDRIAN
Grey Tree
Piet Mondrian- a Dutch artist, he developed geometric abstraction with
his mathematically precise paintings based on right angles, squares and
rectangles.
Composition with red, yellow and blue -1921
By Piet Mondrian
Composition with red, yellow and blue -1921
By Piet Mondrian
The Kitty
The Parrot
The Cubist City Builders
The Cubist Vintage
5. Abstract Expressionism
• Is a style of painting in which
the artist expresses his
feelings spontaneously and
without reference to any
representation of physical
activity.
Picture of Jose T. Joya
He is the leader of Abstract Expressionism in the
Philippines
HILLS OF NIKKO
Work of Jose T. Joya
LINES OF BEAUTY
Autumn Rhythm-1950
Work of Jackson Pollock
6. Surrealism
• It is a movement in art characterized by the
expression of the activities of the unconscious
mind and dream elements.
• It is infinite realms of the unconscious of
which dreams are successions of images,
thoughts or emotions passing through the
mind during sleep.
• Salvador Dali is one of the artists of the
movement.
Picture of Salvador Dali
Paintings of Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory
The Angel
The Visage of War
7. Realism
• It is a style of art whose interest and concern
centers around the actual or real problems.
• It is also associated with the social
consciousness and transformation occurring
during period.
The Gleaners
By Jean Francois Millet, depicts French peasant women picking up
leaftover grain after a harvest.
8. Futurism
• It is an Italian art movement which hoped to
glorify the machine age, speed travel and
technology.
• An exponent of the movement was Marcel
Duchamps – The Nude Descending the
Staircase.
Work of Marcel Duchamp
The Futurism art movement was by no means a movement of
painters. It covered all fields of creativity, including architecture,
literature, textiles, ceramics, theatre, film, industrial design, etc.
