FINAL REQUIREMENT FOR HUMANITIES 1

Submitted to:
Ms. Czarina May M. Brigoli

Submitted by:

Bayno, Kae Russel P.

Caete, Rhea May
Ibo, Ivy Janine
Marcaida, Ma. Christia
Visitacion, Pete Andre B.

TTH 10:30 12:00

March 21, 2017
The Age of Modern Art
What is Modern Art? There is no precise definition of the term "Modern Art", although it
usually refers to works produced during the approximate period 1870-1970. Typically, modern
artists rejected previous Renaissance-based traditions, in favor of new forms of artistic
experimentation. They used new materials, new techniques of painting, and developed new
theories about how art should reflect the perceived world, and what their functions as artists
should be. In addition, entirely new types of art were developed during the period.

Modern Art Movements

Impressionism-focused on the almost impossible task of capturing fleeting moments of light
and colour. Introduced non-naturalist colour schemes, and loose - often highly textured -
brushwork
Fauvism-A radical use of unnatural colors that separated color from its usual
representational and realistic role, giving new, emotional meaning to the colors
Creating a strong, unified work that appears flat on the canvas
Showing the individual expressions and emotions of the painter instead of creating paintings
based on theories of what paintings should look like with objects represented as they appear
in nature
Bold brush strokes using paint straight from the tube instead of preparing and mixing it
Cubism-Brighter colours.
Simpler lines and shapes.
Collage is used alongside paint. Previously cubism had broken objects down to a grid of
complicated planes (flat shapes). ...
A range of textures: as well as collage, the cubist artists used a wider range of painted and
drawn marks.
Futurism- Thrived on the impressions of speed, noise and machines
Tried to express the energetic, dynamic, and violent quality of contemporary life, especially
as embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery
Used stopped time to imply that motion is occurring
Dada- Dada had only one rule: Never follow any known rules.
Dada was intended to provoke an emotional reaction from the viewer (typically shock or
outrage).
Expressionism is an intensely personal art form. The expressionist artist strives to convey his
personal feelings about the object painted, rather than merely record his observation of it.
The main contribution of expressionism to "modern art" was to popularize the idea of
subjectivity in painting and sculpture, and to show that representational art may legitimately
include subjective distortion.
 Surrealism-Founded in Paris by writer Andre Breton (1896-1966), Surrealism was 'the'
fashionable art movement of the inter-war years, although the style is still seen today.
Composed of abstract and figurative wings, it evolved out of the nihilistic Dada movement,
most of whose members metamorphosed into surrealists, but unlike Dada it was neither anti-
art nor political. Surrealist painters used various methods - including dreams, hallucinations,
automatic or random image generation - to circumvent rational thought processes in creating
works of art.
Abstract Expressionism-The main contribution of abstract expressionism to "modern art"
was to popularize abstraction. In Pollock's case, by inventing a new style known as "action
painting" - see photos by text; in Rothko's case, by demonstrating the emotional impact of
large areas of colour.
The main contribution of abstract expressionism to "modern art" was to show that good art
could be low-brow, and could be made of anything.
Pop Art- By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop
Art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture and that
art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop
Art.
Minimalism- Minimalism emerged in New York in the early 1960s among artists who were
self-consciously renouncing recent art they thought had become stale and academic. A wave
of new influences and rediscovered styles led younger artists to question conventional
boundaries between various media. The new art favored the cool over the "dramatic": their
sculptures were frequently fabricated from industrial materials and emphasized anonymity
over the expressive excess of Abstract Expressionism
Color Field-Color field painting marks a major development in abstract painting, since it
was the first style to resolutely avoid the suggestion of a form or mass standing out against a
background. Instead, figure and ground are one, and the space of the picture, conceived as a
field, seems to spread out beyond the edges of the canvas.

Contemporary Art
DEFINITION

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first
century.
Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the
issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us.
Today's artists work in and respond to a global environment that is culturally diverse,
technologically advancing, and multifaceted.
Working in a wide range of mediums, contemporary artists often reflect and comment on
modern-day society.
CHARACTERISTICS
 Contemporary art is nothing more than the set of a series of different movements, avant-
garde, techniques and styles, which resulted in the so famous and distinctive
contemporary art we know today
the paintings were produced with all types of materials and not just with oil on canvas,
for example. The creations in this period began to become more radicalized, with greater
emphasis on the performative character of art as well as conceptual
Another essential feature for contemporary art is the fascination with which its artists
used the modern technology, as well as more mechanical methods at the time of
reproduction of art

CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENTS

Art Povera (1966-1971)

an Italian term meaning poor/impoverished art

describes a type of avant-garde art made from "found objects" including worthless
materials, like soil, bits of wood, rags, scraps of newspaper

it refers to a group of avant-garde painters and sculptors based in Turin, Milan, Genoa
and Rome from the mid-1960s onwards who produced a provocative fusion of
Conceptual Art, Assemblage, Minimalism and Performance Art

The group was promoted and publicized by the Turin dealer Enzo Sperone and, notably,
by the art critic and curator Germano Celant
Examples:

Venus of the rags, by Michelangelo Pistolett,o in 1967

Giaps Igloo, by Mario Merz, in 1968
Mario Merz Igloo, 2002
Contemporary Realism

American style of painting which emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in the works
of a variety of artists, such as Philip Pearlstein, Neil Wellilver and William Bailey.

characterized by figurative works executed in a raw objective style, without the

distortions of Cubist or Expressionist interpretation

Examples:
Two Models with Blow-Up Chair, 1998 by Philip Pearlstein
Still life with Rose Wall and Compote January-March, 1973, oil on canvas , 40" x 48 1/8
by William Bailey
Still Life of 10 Eggs, White Vase, Blue and White Vase and Enamel Cup 1971 , Oil on
canvas, 42" x 48 by William Bailey
Post-minimalism

encompasses several differing styles, as well as types of painting, sculpture and other
contemporary art forms, which succeeded Minimalism in the late-1960s and 1970s, and
which use it as an aesthetic or conceptual reference point from which to develop.
characterized by an emphasis on process and conception over the finished object, the
demystification of the artistic process through the employment of chance methods, and
the use of nontraditional, poor materials, such as latex and felt.
Some Post-Minimal artists were interested in extending Minimalism's interest in
anonymity and in emptying artwork of the artist's personal expression. Instead of using
industrial materials and impersonal methods of fabrication to achieve this, they used
other strategies. They presented material in ways that seemed unprocessed or
uncomposed, or the material drooped and sagged, clearly governed more by the character
of the material rather than the artist's intentions. To distinguish it from Minimalism's
perceived concern with form and composition, this is referred to as "anti-form."
1971 onwards

Examples:
Eva Hesse Pink, 1965
Untitled (1970) by Eva Hesse
A Line Made by Walking (1967) by Richard Long

Feminist art

An art movement involving female artists which addressed specific gender-based issues,
such as motherhood, as well as wider issues like racism and employment conditions.
first appeared in America and Britain
Prominent feminist artists include the Americans Nancy Spero , Eleanor Antin , Joan
Jonas
(mid-to-late 1960s onwards)

Examples:
Nancy Spero The Dance 1994, 1994
Nancy Spero Dildo Dancer/Egyptian Woman, 1990
Nancy Spero Cri du Coeur(2005)

New Subjectivity (1970s)

A style of traditional art (anti-abstraction, anti-conceptualism) associated with the

participants in "New Subjectivity", an international exhibition in 1976 at the Pompidou
Centre in Paris

In their paintings, they were concerned with careful observation of the real world.
 employed every format of canvas from monumental to small-scale, and worked in
acrylics, oils, and watercolours, as well as coloured pencils and pastels

Examples:
David Hockney
R.B. Kitaj -Cecil Court, London W.C.2. (The Refugees) 19834
Christian Zeimert- Teilhard de Chardin

London School

Group of figurative artists associated with London in the mid-1970s.

used to refer to the group of artists associated with the city at that time, who continued to
practice forms of figurative work, in the face of the avant-garde establishment.
The principal artists involved in this London School, included Michael Andrews, Francis
Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney (though actually living in America), Howard
Hodgkin, Frank Auerbach, and Leon Kossoff

Examples:

Francis Bacon Composition c.195761

Leon Kossoff Portrait of Anne 1993
Frank Auerbach To the Studios 19901

Other Contemporary Art Movements

Graffiti Art - (also called "Street Art", "Spraycan Art", "Subway Art" or "Aerosol Art") is a
style of painting associated with hip-hop, a cultural movement which sprang up in various
American cities, especially on New York subway trains, during the 1970s and 1980s.
Neo-Expressionism (1980 onwards) - a broad painting movement, established in opposition
to lack-lustre Minimalism, which made use of colour, emotion, symbolism and narrative.
They use sensuous colours, and incorporated themes associated with numerous historical
styles and movements, such as the Renaissance, Mannerism, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism,
Abstract Expressionism and Pop-Art.
Deconstructivism (c.1985-2010) - is a weird-looking but intensely creative style of 20th
century architecture that first emerged during the late 1980s. It was developed from the
aerospace industry, deconstructivist architecture is opposed to the ordered rationality of
geometry, preferring a non-rectilinear approach to design which typically distorts the
exterior of a structure, subverting modernist values in the process.