Modern Art an overview - Time line and explanation of main movements

Question

What were the chaarctersitics of Impressionism

Answer 1

a) Applying pain in small touches.

b) Painting out of doors.

c) focus on effects of colour and light

Artists: Manet and Monet

Answer 2

1890-1910. Nb nbot really a school but two trends which influenced modern art.

Answer 3

a) - not really a school, just reaction against the naturalism of impressionism. Two trends impressionism which influenced modern art. b) Trend one, emphasis on form, muted colour and simplification led to cubism c) Trend two _ emphasis on vivid colour and distorted form to express inner feeling.

Answer 4

Cezanne. les baigneuses. The use of muted colour and simplified form to emphasise formal beuty. Led to cubism

Answer 5

Yellow Haystacks by Guaguin exemplifies use of vivid colour to reglect inner feeling. This led to expressionism.

Answer 6

-a) use of vivid non naturalistic colour a form ofexpressionism

b) influenced by primitive art

c) distorted form and emphasis on inner feeling

Answer 7

Fauvism. Matisse La Ronde 1910. Note vivid non-natualistic colur, distorted form and focus on inner feeling. A form of expressionism.

Answer 8

Die Brucke (1905)

Der BlaueReiter ( 1911)

Answer 9

1) use of vivid colour, distorted form and agitated brush stokes.

2) Focus on inner feeling

3) Inluence of primitive art

Answer 10

Film. German expressionist cinema was hugely influential.

Answer 11

NB Not a movement but a trend . The original interest in primitive art can be seen in Gauguin Van Gogh and Munch. The effect of primitivism can be seen in fauvism, cubism and expressionism.

Answer 12

Picasso's les Demoiselles D'avignon shows the influence of primitivism in the use of the African masks as the faces of some of the women. It is also an early exmaple of primitivism

Answer 13

Characteristics.
- focus on inner beauty and formal simplicity, influenced by Cezanne.
- Surface of the picture two dimensional. Objects fragmented, and shown from several different points of view simultaneously.
- 'objets trouve' added on top of the paper to create depth. This led to paper sculpture (Picasso) and Collage( Schwitters). Broke down the boundaries of painting.

Answer 14

Picassos Vieux Marc shows how paper was stcuk on the surface of the picture adding the illiusion of depth.

Answer 15

Picasso's guitar 1912 illustrates the breakdown in the boundaraies between artistic medium. The paper has come of the painting and become a flat sculpture. Picasso was asked is this a sucllpture he replied @ no. it's a guitar.@

Answer 16

1915 -1922

Answer 17

a- Wanted to smash the insitution of art . ' The ' anti anti anti Hans Arp.

- b) The role of chance - the name Dada was chosen by Tristan Tzara ransomly sticking a par of scissors into a dictionary.

c) The use of objets trouve and Collage

Answer 18

9. Characterisitcs of American Dada

a) the rejection of 'retinal art' - art was to attract the mind Not the art.

-b) the use of ready mades. A dvelopment from objets trouve.

C) playing with the idea of the role of the artist. e.g. signing mass produced objects, Rrose Selavy, .

Answer 19

- rejected art for art's sake ( the autonomy of Art Burger) and saw art as practical way to order scoiety. Wnt outside fine arts included h propaganda, graphic design and cinema.
- first purely abstract and non-figurative school. Geometric, formal and unemotional. Cobcerned with fomral beauty.
- Concern with the use of space. Led to new media such as installations and linear sculptures. .

Answer 20

Interest in the use of space. This 1923 room by El Lissitsky is one of the first pieces of installation art

Answer 21

Interest in space, pure abstraction, formal beuaty. These Lienare suclputures by Nam Gabo use benc wire and a single thread.

Answer 22

1920-1930. Styles lasted till 1960s and was domiant in france

Answer 23

influence of Freudian idea of unconscious and marxssm. tried to recreate dreams

- juxtapositions of unexpected objects as in a dream. painting style was often realistic, it was the juxtapositiosn) that is shocking.

- intially literary movement. Painting only one medium cinema and photography just as important.

Answer 24

1920-1930

Continued ton 50 as an artistic style.

Answer 25

1) Mix pf Freud and Marx. Aimed to recapture the unconscious thought or dream.

2) Realistic figurative style but used shocking juxtapositions - the lobster as a phone - to startle the viewer.

3) Started as a poetry movement. Other art forms esepcially film and photography at least as important as painting.

Answer 26

Shocking image of eye with razor. From a film ( le chien andalou) made by filmmaker ( Bunuel) with painter ( Salavador Dali). Visual art and painting was not privileges in surrealism. Cinema and photgraphy was as important.

Answer 27

What are the characteristics of socialist realism

Characteristics -

19th century neo classical and realist picture art. Meium painting, architecture, staties - all grifying communism. Cinema.

Glorifies the position of the leader and the working class

became official art under Stalin and spread to other communist countries.

Answer 28

First world war (1917) to 1930

Answer 29

a) Pure abstraction ( no figurative) and simplicity

b) geometric shapes mostly rectangles, painted in primary colours+ black and white . Thick black lines between the colour

c) painting, architecture and graphic design - influenced the bauhaus.

Answer 30

Modrian's Composition in Red Blue and Yellow 19230 is typical because it si abstract, simple, ises rectangles made of thick black lines and primary coulours = black and white.

Answer 31

Malevich white square on a white square - the first monchromatic paining typifies his supremecist period> It has pure abstraction and simple geometric shapes.

Answer 32

1915- 1920 ( became cosntructivist). Fist abstract only school a couple of years before de Stijl

Answer 33

1. Taught design, craft (eg furiture potterry) and and ( later) architecture .

2. Form follows function. A chair is a chair first - absolutely no decoration. Severe geometric shapes.

3) Encouraged respect. for material and believed in modern forms of production

Answer 34

Combined abstraction and simplicity of formal modernism with colour and brushwork of expressionsm.

b) Aimed to express inner feeling. Individual artist styles differ a lot e.g. pollock dribbles pain, Rothko uses only a few colour in great swathes.

c) Originally quite revolutionary became adopted as the American form of art and prmoted by critics and establishment

Answer 35

This an example of Rothko's style of abbstract expressionis, Combines abstraction and simplicty with vivid colour and strong brushstrokes to express inner feeling

Answer 36

From the end of the first workd war to the beginning of the second ( Hitler closed it in 1933)

Nb - it moved 3 times os strictly speaking there were three bauhouses.

Answer 37

Duchamp's the fountain shows The importance of the Use of readymades. Mass produced objects as art.

Answer 38

This Schwitters collage (1920) It shows how the objets trouve led to the development of the art of collage.

Modern Art an overview - Time line and explanation of main movements

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