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Modern art is renowned for its avant-garde aesthetic and celebrated for its forward-thinking artists. Developing over the course of roughly 100 years, it incorporates many major art movements and has inevitably seen an eclectic range of styles.
In order to trace modern art’s remarkable evolution, one must recognize and understand the many genres that compose it. To do this, however, it is helpful to come up with a modern art definition.
What is Modern Art?
Not to be confused with contemporary art, the “modern art” label refers to late 19th and early-to-mid 20th-century art. Works produced during this time showcase artists’ interest in re-imagining, reinterpreting, and even rejecting traditional aesthetic values of preceding styles.
Major Movements and Artists
Starting with light and airy Impressionism and ending with energetic Abstract Expressionism, the modern art genre is composed of several major movements.
Impressionism
Widely considered the catalyst for modern art, Impressionism challenged the rigid rules and realistic depictions of academic painting. The movement emerged in 1872, when Claude Monet innovatively employed blurred brushstrokes, a focus on light, and a vivid color palette to paint Impression, Sunrise.
This style dominated French painting until the turn of the century, with Impressionist artists like Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas at the forefront.
Post-Impressionism
Inspired by the artistic freedom introduced by the Impressionists, artists like Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec began working in distinctive, unconventional styles. Known as Post-Impressionism, this colorful movement started in the 1890s and showcases an interest in emotion and a preference for subjective interpretation over realistic representation.
Fauvism
Les Fauves, Exhibition at the Salon D’Automne, from L’Illustration, November 4, 1905 (Photo: By Not identified, anonymous via via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Founded by les Fauves—an avant-garde group of artists including André Derain and Henri Matisse—Fauvism first appeared in the early 20th century. Like the Post-Impressionists, Fauvists favored unrealistic tones and an emphasis on individual perceptions in their depictions, which typically featured recognizable (yet somewhat abstracted) forms.
Expressionism
Shortly before World War I, painters in Germany and Austria began to take an experimental approach to their practice. Eventually known as Expressionists, these artists adopted and adapted the unprecedented characteristics of other modern movements. Like Post-Impressionist and Fauvist works of art, pieces rendered in the Expressionist style convey a fascination with bright, artificial color and individualistic iconography.
Cubism
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Characterized by deconstructed, fractured forms, Cubism marked modern art’s shift toward abstraction. Pioneered in 1907 by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, the avant-garde movement materialized as topsy-turvy paintings, multi-dimensional sculptures, and cutting-edge collages. Like other modern art movements, Cubism emphasized a subjective approach to creating. “When we discovered Cubism,” Picasso explains, “we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.”
Surrealism
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In the 1920s, visual artists Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy came together to found Surrealism, a movement rooted in the subconscious. Lacking “any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern” (André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism), the genre culminated in a diverse collection of dream-like depictions straight from the artists’ imaginations.
Abstract Expressionism
In the middle of the 20th century, an innovative group of artists forewent figurative styles of painting for an original, abstract aesthetic. Known as Abstract Expressionists, these painters placed artistic emphasis not only on modernist characteristics like color, composition, and emotion but on the creative process itself.
Modern Art vs. Contemporary Art
Due to the experimental nature and overlapping themes of both modern and contemporary art, the genres are often confused for one another. However, once one recognizes the movements that compose each, the ambiguous, blurred line that differentiates them becomes clearer.
Typically, modern art is understood to include Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and the styles in between. Therefore, contemporary art commences with the first major movement following modernism—Pop Art—and, of course, continues today.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is modern art?
Modern art refers to late 19th and early-to-mid 20th-century art, including Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism. Works produced during this time showcase artists’ interest in re-imagining, reinterpreting, and even rejecting traditional aesthetic values of preceding styles.
Is Impressionism modern art?
Impressionism is regarded as the first modern art movement. It challenged the rigid rules and realistic depictions of academic painting, which served as a catalyst for the development of modern art.
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This article is about art produced from the 1860s to the 1970s. For art produced from the 1940s to the present, see contemporary art.
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.[1] The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.[2] Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency away from the narrative, which was characteristic for the traditional arts, toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. More recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or postmodern art.
Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubists Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Jean Metzinger and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with «wild», multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism. Matisse’s two versions of The Dance signified a key point in his career and in the development of modern painting.[3] It reflected Matisse’s incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism.
At the start of 20th-century Western painting, and initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first Cubist paintings based on Cézanne’s idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone. With the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), Picasso dramatically created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently painted women, reminiscent of African tribal masks and his own new Cubist inventions. Analytic cubism was jointly developed by Picasso and Georges Braque, exemplified by Violin and Candlestick, Paris, from about 1908 through 1912. Analytic cubism, the first clear manifestation of cubism, was followed by Synthetic cubism, practiced by Braque, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and several other artists into the 1920s. Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter.[4][5]
The notion of modern art is closely related to modernism.[a]
History[edit]
Roots in the 19th century[edit]
Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier.[7] The date perhaps most commonly identified as marking the birth of modern art is 1863,[7] the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting Le déjeuner sur l’herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris. Earlier dates have also been proposed, among them 1855 (the year Gustave Courbet exhibited The Artist’s Studio) and 1784 (the year Jacques-Louis David completed his painting The Oath of the Horatii).[7] In the words of art historian H. Harvard Arnason: «Each of these dates has significance for the development of modern art, but none categorically marks a completely new beginning …. A gradual metamorphosis took place in the course of a hundred years.»[7]
The strands of thought that eventually led to modern art can be traced back to the Enlightenment.[b] The important modern art critic Clement Greenberg, for instance, called Immanuel Kant «the first real Modernist» but also drew a distinction: «The Enlightenment criticized from the outside … . Modernism criticizes from the inside.»[9] The French Revolution of 1789 uprooted assumptions and institutions that had for centuries been accepted with little question and accustomed the public to vigorous political and social debate. This gave rise to what art historian Ernst Gombrich called a «self-consciousness that made people select the style of their building as one selects the pattern of a wallpaper.»[10]
The pioneers of modern art were Romantics, Realists and Impressionists.[11][failed verification] By the late 19th century, additional movements which were to be influential in modern art had begun to emerge: post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
Influences upon these movements were varied: from exposure to Eastern decorative arts, particularly Japanese printmaking, to the coloristic innovations of Turner and Delacroix, to a search for more realism in the depiction of common life, as found in the work of painters such as Jean-François Millet. The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition-bound academic art that enjoyed public and official favor.[12] The most successful painters of the day worked either through commissions or through large public exhibitions of their own work. There were official, government-sponsored painters’ unions, while governments regularly held public exhibitions of new fine and decorative arts.
The Impressionists argued that people do not see objects but only the light which they reflect, and therefore painters should paint in natural light (en plein air) rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work.[13] Impressionist artists formed a group, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs («Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers») which, despite internal tensions, mounted a series of independent exhibitions.[14] The style was adopted by artists in different nations, in preference to a «national» style. These factors established the view that it was a «movement». These traits—establishment of a working method integral to the art, establishment of a movement or visible active core of support, and international adoption—would be repeated by artistic movements in the Modern period in art.
Early 20th century[edit]
Among the movements which flowered in the first decade of the 20th century were Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and Futurism.
During the years between 1910 and the end of World War I and after the heyday of cubism, several movements emerged in Paris. Giorgio de Chirico moved to Paris in July 1911, where he joined his brother Andrea (the poet and painter known as Alberto Savinio). Through his brother he met Pierre Laprade, a member of the jury at the Salon d’Automne where he exhibited three of his dreamlike works: Enigma of the Oracle, Enigma of an Afternoon and Self-Portrait. During 1913 he exhibited his work at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d’Automne, and his work was noticed by Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and several others. His compelling and mysterious paintings are considered instrumental to the early beginnings of Surrealism. Song of Love (1914) is one of the most famous works by de Chirico and is an early example of the surrealist style, though it was painted ten years before the movement was «founded» by André Breton in 1924.
World War I brought an end to this phase but indicated the beginning of a number of anti-art movements, such as Dada, including the work of Marcel Duchamp, and of Surrealism. Artist groups like de Stijl and Bauhaus developed new ideas about the interrelation of the arts, architecture, design, and art education.
Modern art was introduced to the United States with the Armory Show in 1913 and through European artists who moved to the U.S. during World War I.
After World War II[edit]
It was only after World War II, however, that the U.S. became the focal point of new artistic movements.[15] The 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, Color field painting, Conceptual artists of Art & Language, Pop art, Op art, Hard-edge painting, Minimal art, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Happening, Video art, Postminimalism, Photorealism and various other movements. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, Land art, Performance art, Conceptual art, and other new art forms had attracted the attention of curators and critics, at the expense of more traditional media.[16] Larger installations and performances became widespread.
By the end of the 1970s, when cultural critics began speaking of «the end of painting» (the title of a provocative essay written in 1981 by Douglas Crimp), new media art had become a category in itself, with a growing number of artists experimenting with technological means such as video art.[17] Painting assumed renewed importance in the 1980s and 1990s, as evidenced by the rise of neo-expressionism and the revival of figurative painting.[18]
Towards the end of the 20th century, a number of artists and architects started questioning the idea of «the modern» and created typically Postmodern works.[19]
Art movements and artist groups[edit]
(Roughly chronological with representative artists listed.)
19th century[edit]
- Romanticism and the Romantic movement – Francisco de Goya, J. M. W. Turner, Eugène Delacroix
- Realism – Gustave Courbet, Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Rosa Bonheur
- Pre-Raphaelites – William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Macchiaioli – Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini
- Impressionism – Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Armand Guillaumin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley
- Post-impressionism – Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon
- Pointillism – Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, Henri-Edmond Cross
- Divisionism – Gaetano Previati, Giovanni Segantini, Pellizza da Volpedo
- Symbolism – Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, James Whistler, James Ensor
- Les Nabis – Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier
- Art Nouveau and variants – Jugendstil, Secession, Modern Style, Modernisme – Aubrey Beardsley, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt,
- Art Nouveau architecture and design – Antoni Gaudí, Otto Wagner, Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, Koloman Moser
- Early Modernist sculptors – Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin
Early 20th century (before World War I)[edit]
- Abstract art – Francis Picabia, Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Léopold Survage, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Hilma af Klint
- Fauvism – André Derain, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen
- Expressionism and related – Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, Axel Törneman, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein
- Cubism – Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Francis Picabia, Juan Gris
- Futurism – Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov
- Orphism – Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, František Kupka
- Suprematism – Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky
- Synchromism – Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Morgan Russell
- Vorticism – Wyndham Lewis
- Sculpture – Constantin Brâncuși, Joseph Csaky, Alexander Archipenko, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Lipchitz, Ossip Zadkine, Henri Laurens, Elie Nadelman, Chaim Gross, Chana Orloff, Jacob Epstein, Gustave Miklos
- Photography – Pictorialism, Straight photography
World War I to World War II[edit]
- Dada – Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters
- Surrealism – Marc Chagall, René Magritte, Jean Arp, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, André Masson, Joan Miró
- Expressionism and related: Chaim Soutine, Abraham Mintchine
- Pittura Metafisica – Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio Morandi
- De Stijl – Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian
- New Objectivity – Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz
- Figurative painting – Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard
- American Modernism – Stuart Davis, Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe
- Constructivism – Naum Gabo, Gustav Klutsis, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Vadim Meller, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin
- Bauhaus – Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers
- Scottish Colourists – Francis Cadell, Samuel Peploe, Leslie Hunter, John Duncan Fergusson
- Social realism – Grant Wood, Walker Evans, Diego Rivera
- Precisionism – Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth
- Boychukism — Mykhailo Boychuk, Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Ivan Padalka, Vasily Sedlyar
- Sculpture – Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Gaston Lachaise, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Julio Gonzalez
After World War II[edit]
- Figuratifs – Bernard Buffet, Jean Carzou, Maurice Boitel, Daniel du Janerand, Claude-Max Lochu
- Sculpture – Henry Moore, David Smith, Tony Smith, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi,[20] Alberto Giacometti, Sir Anthony Caro, Jean Dubuffet, Isaac Witkin, René Iché, Marino Marini, Louise Nevelson, Albert Vrana
- Abstract expressionism – Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Lee Krasner,
- American Abstract Artists – Ilya Bolotowsky, Ibram Lassaw, Ad Reinhardt, Josef Albers, Burgoyne Diller
- Art Brut – Adolf Wölfli, August Natterer, Ferdinand Cheval, Madge Gill
- Arte Povera – Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz, Piero Manzoni, Alighiero Boetti
- Color field painting – Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Sam Francis, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler
- Tachisme – Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Ludwig Merwart
- COBRA – Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Asger Jorn
- Conceptual art – Art & Language, Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Sol LeWitt
- De-collage – Wolf Vostell, Mimmo Rotella
- Neo-Dada – Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, John Chamberlain, Joseph Beuys, Lee Bontecou, Edward Kienholz
- Figurative Expressionism – Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Robert De Niro, Sr., Lester Johnson, George McNeil, Earle M. Pilgrim, Jan Müller, Robert Beauchamp, Bob Thompson
- Feminist Art — Eva Hesse, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, Mary Beth Edelson, Ewa Partum, Valie Export, Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Guerrilla Girls, Hannah Wilke
- Fluxus – George Maciunas, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneeman, Alison Knowles, Charlotte Moorman, Dick Higgins
- Happening – Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Whitman, Yoko Ono
- Dau-al-Set – founded in Barcelona by poet/artist Joan Brossa, – Antoni Tàpies
- Grupo El Paso [es; ca; pl] – founded in Madrid by artists Antonio Saura, Pablo Serrano
- Geometric abstraction – Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Nadir Afonso, Manlio Rho, Mario Radice, Mino Argento, Adam Szentpétery
- Hard-edge painting – John McLaughlin, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Al Held, Ronald Davis
- Kinetic art – George Rickey, Getulio Alviani
- Land art – Ana Mendieta, Christo, Richard Long, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer
- Les Automatistes – Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Marcelle Ferron
- Minimal art – Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, Agnes Martin
- Postminimalism – Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis
- Lyrical abstraction – Ronnie Landfield, Sam Gilliam, Larry Zox, Dan Christensen, Natvar Bhavsar, Larry Poons
- Neo-figurative art – Fernando Botero, Antonio Berni
- Neo-expressionism – Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorff, Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Transavanguardia – Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi
- Figuration libre – Hervé Di Rosa, François Boisrond, Robert Combas
- New realism – Yves Klein, Pierre Restany, Arman
- Op art – Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Jeffrey Steele
- Outsider art – Howard Finster, Grandma Moses, Bob Justin
- Photorealism – Audrey Flack, Chuck Close, Duane Hanson, Richard Estes, Malcolm Morley
- Pop art – Richard Hamilton, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney
- Postwar European figurative painting – Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Gerhard Richter
- New European Painting – Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Bracha Ettinger, Michaël Borremans, Chris Ofili
- Shaped canvas – Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Ron Davis, Robert Mangold.
- Soviet art – Aleksandr Deyneka, Aleksandr Gerasimov, Ilya Kabakov, Komar & Melamid, Alexandr Zhdanov, Leonid Sokov
- Spatialism – Lucio Fontana
- Video art – Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys, Bill Viola, Hans Breder
- Visionary art – Ernst Fuchs, Paul Laffoley, Michael Bowen
Notable modern art exhibitions and museums[edit]
Austria[edit]
- Leopold Museum, Vienna
Belgium[edit]
- SMAK, Ghent
Brazil[edit]
- MASP, São Paulo, SP
- MAM/SP, São Paulo, SP
- MAM/RJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
- MAM/BA, Salvador, Bahia
Colombia[edit]
- Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO)
Croatia[edit]
- Ivan Meštrović Gallery, Split
- Modern Gallery, Zagreb
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Ecuador[edit]
- Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo, Guayaquil
- La Capilla del Hombre, Quito
Finland[edit]
- EMMA, Espoo
- Kiasma, Helsinki
France[edit]
- Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau
- Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d’Ascq
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris
- Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
- Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
- Musée Picasso, Paris
- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
- Musée d’art moderne de Troyes
Germany[edit]
- Degenerate Art exhibition, a touring exhibition of modern art held in Nazi Germany to condemn modern art
- documenta, Kassel, an exhibition of modern and contemporary art held every 5 years
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
India[edit]
- National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore
Iran[edit]
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Ireland[edit]
- Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Israel[edit]
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Italy[edit]
- Palazzo delle Esposizioni
- Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
- Venice Biennial, Venice
- Palazzo Pitti, Florence
- Museo del Novecento, Milan
Mexico[edit]
- Museo de Arte Moderno, México D.F.
Netherlands[edit]
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Norway[edit]
- Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
- Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo
Poland[edit]
- Museum of Art, Łódź
- National Museum, Kraków
Qatar[edit]
- Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Romania[edit]
- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Russia[edit]
- Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
- Pushkin Museum, Moscow
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Serbia[edit]
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Spain[edit]
- Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
- Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
- Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
- Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga.
Sweden[edit]
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Taiwan[edit]
- Asia Museum of Modern Art, Taichung
United Kingdom[edit]
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London
- Saatchi Gallery, London
- Tate Britain, London
- Tate Liverpool
- Tate Modern, London
- Tate St Ives
Ukraine[edit]
- National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
- Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv, Lviv
United States[edit]
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, New York
- Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, and Venice, Italy ; more recently in Berlin, Germany, Bilbao, Spain, and Las Vegas, Nevada
- High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
- McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
- Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York
See also[edit]
- 20th-century art
- Art manifesto
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- History of painting
- List of 20th-century women artists
- List of modern artists
- Modern architecture
- Periods in Western art history
- Western painting
Notes[edit]
- ^ «One way of understanding the relation of the terms ‘modern,’ ‘modernity,’ and ‘modernism’ is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity … [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Social modernity is the home of modernist art, even where that art rebels against it.» — Lawrence E. Cahoone[6]
- ^ «In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries momentum began to gather behind a new view of the world, which would eventually create a new world, the modern world.» — Lawrence E. Cahoone[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Atkins 1997, pp. 118–119.
- ^ Gombrich 1995, p. 557.
- ^ Clement 1996, p. 114.
- ^ Scobie 1988, pp. 103–107.
- ^ John-Steiner 2006, p. 69.
- ^ Cahoone 1996, p. 13.
- ^ a b c d Arnason & Prather 1998, p. 17.
- ^ Cahoone 1996, p. 27.
- ^ Greenberg 1982, p. 5.
- ^ Gombrich 1995, p. 477.
- ^ Arnason & Prather 1998, p. 22.
- ^ Corinth et al. 1996, p. 25.
- ^ Cogniat 1975, p. 61.
- ^ Cogniat 1975, pp. 43–49.
- ^ Saunders 2013.
- ^ Mullins 2006, p. 14.
- ^ Mullins 2006, p. 9.
- ^ Mullins 2006, pp. 14–15.
- ^ Jencks 1987, p. [page needed].
- ^ Lander 2006.
Sources[edit]
- Arnason, H. Harvard; Prather, Marla (1998). History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography (4th ed.). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8109-3439-9. OCLC 1035593323 – via Internet Archive.
- Atkins, Robert (1997). Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords (2nd ed.). New York: Abbeville Press Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7892-0415-8. OCLC 605278894 – via Internet Archive.
- Cahoone, Lawrence (1996). From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55786-602-8. OCLC 1149327777 – via Internet Archive.
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- Clement, Russell (1996). Four French Symbolists: A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-29752-6. OCLC 34191505.
- Cogniat, Raymond (1975). Pissarro. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-517-52477-0. OCLC 2082821.
- Corinth, Lovis; Schuster, Peter-Klaus; Vitali, Christoph; Butts, Barbara; Brauner, Lothar; Bärnreuther, Andrea (1996). Lovis Corinth. Munich; New York: Prestel. ISBN 978-3-7913-1682-6. OCLC 35280519.
- Greenberg, Clement (1982). «Modernist Painting». In Frascina, Francis; Harrison, Charles; Paul, Deirdre (eds.). Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology. In association with the Open University. London: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-318234-9. OCLC 297414909 – via Internet Archive.
- Gombrich, Ernst H. (1995). The Story of Art. London: Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 978-0-7148-3355-2. OCLC 1151352542 – via Internet Archive.
- Jencks, Charles (1987). Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-8478-0835-9. OCLC 1150952960 – via Inernet Archive.
- John-Steiner, Vera (2006). «Patterns of Collaboration among Artists». Creative Collaboration. Oxford University Press. pp. 63–96. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307702.003.0004. ISBN 978-0-19-530770-2. OCLC 5105130725, 252638637.
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- Mullins, Charlotte (2006). Painting people : figure painting today. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Pubs. ISBN 978-1-933045-38-2. OCLC 71679906.
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- Scobie, Stephen (1988). «The Allure of Multiplicity: Metaphor and Metonymy in Cubism and Gertrude Stein». In Neuman, S. C.; Nadel, Ira Bruce (eds.). Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-08541-5_7. ISBN 978-1-349-08543-9. OCLC 7323640453 – via Internet Archive.
Further reading[edit]
- Adams, Hugh (1979). Modern Painting. New York: Mayflower Books. ISBN 978-0-8317-6062-5. OCLC 691113035 – via Internet Archive.
- Childs, Peter (2000). Modernism. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-13116-9. OCLC 48138104 – via Internet Archive.
- Crouch, Christopher (1999). Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 978-0-312-21830-0. OCLC 1036752206 – via Internet Archive.
- Dempsey, Amy (2002). Art in the Modern Era: A Guide to Schools and Movements. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-4172-4. OCLC 47623954.
- Everdell, William (1997). The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-22484-8. OCLC 45733213 – via Internet Archive.
See also: The First Moderns. - Frazier, Nancy (2000). The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Art History. New York: Penguin Reference. ISBN 978-0-14-051420-9. OCLC 70498418.
- Hunter, Sam; Jacobus, John M; Wheeler, Daniel (2005). Modern Art: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-150519-3. OCLC 1114759321.
- Kolocotroni, Vassiliki; Goldman, Jane; Taxidou, Olga, eds. (1998). Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh; Chicago: Edinburgh University Press; The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-585-19313-7. OCLC 1150833644, 44964346 – via Internet Archive.
- Ozenfant, Amédée; Rodker, John (1952). Foundations of Modern Art. New York: Dover. ISBN 9780486202150. OCLC 1200478998. Retrieved 2021-04-19 – via Internet Archive.
- Read, Herbert Edward; Read, Benedict; Tisdall, Caroline; Feaver, William (1975). A Concise History of Modern Painting. New York: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-71730-8. OCLC 741987800, 894774214, 563965849 – via Internet Archive.
External links[edit]
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Do you ever look at a painting in a modern art museum and wonder “what am I looking at?” We’ve all experienced that moment when we want to know more about the unusual artwork we’re seeing. Modern artwork is mysterious and thought-provoking, making it an exciting form of expression for artists around the world. But what is modern art exactly, where did it come from, and why do so many people love it? In this blog post, we’ll explore these questions to help you understand the nature of modern art better.
What is Modern Art Movement?
First, let’s define Modern Art
The concept of modern art can seem elusive at first. Before we dive into its history and important artists, let’s look at the modern art definition.
What is Modern Art?
Modern art is an art movement that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was characterized by a shift away from traditional styles to a more abstract, experimental approach to creating works of art. Major modern art movements include Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism and Surrealism. Influential modernist artists include Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp. Modern artwork has had a lasting impact on the development of visual culture and continues to influence contemporary art today.
Characteristics of Modern Art:
- Use of vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes
- Abstract, expressive forms and shapes
- Exploration of new concepts such as movement, time, and space
- Rejection of mainstream values and traditional techniques
This article is part of our ongoing series on Art Styles. You can also refer to our Art History Timeline post to help place this movement in context.
What is Modern Art Influenced By?
History of Modern Art
Now that we’ve covered the modern art definition it’s important to clarify that the history of modern artwork is a complex and ever-evolving narrative. It began in the late 19th century as a revolt against academic artistic conventions, which championed realism and classicism.
Led by pioneering artists such as Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. This movement sought to eliminate traditional rules around painting in favor of more experimental approaches to art-making.
What is modern art and where did it begin? For some great insight on how art evolved into modern art and how and why artists began pushing the limits of the form, check out this video by Nerdwriter1.
How Art Arrived At Jackson Pollock
To reiterate the video above, artists like Monet and Van Gogh influenced the push toward abstraction and away from realism. These works led to an influx of abstract styles such as Cubism, Fauvism, and Surrealism which had lasting effects on visual culture.
For example, Cubism was one of the first modern art movements, emerging in the early 20th century. It was a radical departure from traditional painting techniques, with its emphasis on abstract compositions and geometric forms.
Les Femmes d’Alger (Version «O»), 1955 by Pablo Picasso
Artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque painted with this technique, seeking to blur distinctions between objects and represent them in a new way, challenging conventional understanding of visual representation. This desire was at the core of modern art.
Today modern art continues to influence contemporary art across all mediums from painting, sculpture and installation through to digital media and performance art.
While each movement has its own distinguishing characteristics and qualities, there is a thread that flows through each modern art movement. Its practitioners sought to push the boundaries of traditional art-making techniques and explore new ways of expressing feelings and ideas through visual media. Let’s take a deeper dive into some of the most important modern art movements in art history and some examples of modern art from each.
Types of Modern Art
Impressionism
Impressionism was an art movement that began in France in the late 19th century. It is characterized by its focus on capturing the effects of light and atmosphere, and emphasizes accurate depictions of specific times of day and season. Artists employed brilliant colours, thick brush strokes, high chroma, and vivid light-dark contrasts to create their works.
Water lilies (1916-1919) by Claude Monet • Examples of modern art
Impressionists reacted against traditional academic painting styles and sought to capture fleeting moments or impressions of reality. Famous impressionists such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley are renowned for their unique vision and approach to painting.
Modern Art Movements
Cubism
Cubism is an avant-garde art movement that emerged in the early twentieth century. Pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, it sought to challenge traditional notions of perspective and representation by abstracting forms and reducing them to their most basic shapes.
«La Roche-Guyon» (1909) by Georges Braque
Cubism broke down objects into interlocking planes, creating a fragmented view of reality that challenged viewers to see things differently. Today, cubist works continue to inspire creators to experiment with visual expression in unorthodox ways.
Types of Modern Art Movements
Fauvism
Fauvism is a style of painting that emerged in early twentieth century France. Characterized by bright, expressive colours and simplified forms, it was pioneered by Henri Matisse and André Derain.
André Derain’s ‘The Turning Road, L’Estaque (1906)
Fauvist works often use shock and contrast to capture the emotional intensity of a subject, emphasizing vivid hues over realism. By focusing on intense colour combinations, Fauve artists conveyed their own unique perspectives on the world around them.
Modern Art History
Surrealism
Surrealism is an art movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, characterized by dreamlike imagery and fantastical scenes. It was pioneered by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst and Joan Miró, and draws heavily on Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Roots (1943) by Frida Kahlo • Examples of modern art
By combining subject matter from everyday life with elements of fantasy, surrealist works create a unique visual space where the subconscious comes to life. Surrealism continues to inspire creators to explore the depths of their imagination and represent them through conscious expression.
Types of Modern Art movements
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism is a style of painting that emerged in post-World War II America. Pioneered by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, this movement emphasized the artist’s emotional and psychological state over representational representation.
No. 14, 1960 by Mark Rothko
By combining colour, line and form, Abstract Expressionist works explore the depths of human experience through abstract aesthetic techniques. Through its dynamic brushstrokes and symbolic forms, Abstract Expressionism strives to capture the innermost emotions of the painter.
What is Modern Art Pop Art?
Pop Art
Pop Art is a visual art movement that originated in the 1950s and gained massive popularity during the 1960s. It combines elements of popular culture, such as advertisements, comic books, and everyday objects, with abstract art techniques to create a unique aesthetic.
Pop Art celebrates kitsch and popular culture, challenging traditional artistic conventions and subverting hierarchies of taste. Artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are considered to be primary figures of the movement who pushed it from an underground phenomenon to a global one.
Tree of Life (1985) by Keith Haring
While modern artwork may have its roots in traditional artistic conventions, it often seeks to expand our understanding of what art is and can be – from exploring the intangible depths of our unconscious minds to celebrating popular culture or challenging existing social norms.
Modern art continues to be a major influence on contemporary art, in both its formal and conceptual approaches. These artists pushed boundaries of what could be considered «art» while challenging viewers to look at the world differently.
Английский язык, 11 класс
Урок № 52. Modern Art
Тема урока – Modern Art
Цель урока – teach the students how to describe and analyze pictures.
Задачи урока – teach the students some basic features of modern art, discuss modern artists and get acquainted with their techniques.
- You will listen, read, and talk about modern art.
- You will learn how to analyze pictures.
- You will learn the modern artists’ techniques.
Task 1 – Unscramble the words
eaissthmblent — ____________________
cvnaas — _________________________
ctrbuontiion — _____________________
dticiepon — _______________________
ebihitxion — _______________________
fuogrorend — _____________________
prsecpteive — _____________________
vairbnt — ________________________
Task 2 — Read the words. Highlight in red the words, which have nothing to do with Art
Canvas
Chirp
Composition
Cricket
Crunch
Depiction
Exhibition
Foreground
Impressionism
Perspective
Scent
School
Shabby
Sleek
Task 3 – Read the sentences. Fill in the missing words
composition, contrasting, foreground,
Impressionism, revolutionise, school, subject
- In the ________we can see a shabby old house.
- This painter uses _______colours – black and white.
- ________ is a new style, which appeared in the 1860s in France.
- Such painters as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas decided to ________the traditional Art________.
- They arranged their _______so that the main ________commanded the viewer’s attention.
Task 4 — Read the sentences and fill in the gaps transforming the capitalized words
Example – This place is very ___________. – BEAUTY
This place is very beautiful.
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EXHIBIT |
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EMERGE |
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CONTRIBUTE |
He is an __________ person. I believe, he will be very successful. |
ORDINARY |
Task 5 — Read the descriptions of Claude Monet’s paintings. Match the description to the picture
- This picture depicts a misty maritime scene. We see a small rowboat with 2 indistinct figures. We see the early morning sun over the foggy harbor. The painter uses cool, dull colours to make us feel his own impression of this sunrise.
- This picture depicts the beauty of our nature. In the foreground you can see water lilies. They are of comforting colours – white and blue.
- This picture is titled “Wheatstacks — End of Summer”. We really can feel the warm autumn sunset. It seems we can even feel the smell of the wheatstacks. I like this picture very much, as it evokes the happy memories of my childhood, spent with my grandma in the village.
1 — 2 — 3 —
Task 6 — Read the text. Fill in the gaps
Art, between, canon, century, colour, contributed,
Cubism, movement, outside, pushed,
question, quickly, unusual, weather
What is Modern_______? It is a really good_______. Generally, it includes different styles and movements of Art.
In 1860s artists started creating works of art in______, fresh ways. The term “Modern Art” refers to those works of art, created somewhere _______1860s and 1970s.
The first ________was Impressionism. It was an art movement in France at the end of the 19th________.
The Impressionists were always searching for a more exact analysis of ______and light in nature. They tried to capture the atmosphere of a particular time of day and the fleeting effects of different _______conditions.
That was why they had to work very________. Besides, they were the first group of artists who worked ‘en plein air’ (________).
It is important to say, that Impressionism was the first movement in the ______of modern art. It ________greatly to the development of art in the 20th century.
Artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat ________ the boundaries of the style, creating new movements like Expressionism, _______, and Fauvism.
Task 7 – Read the text. Mark the sentences True / False / Not stated
What is Modern Art? It is a really good question. Generally, it includes different styles and movements of Art.
In 1860s artists started creating works of art in unusual, fresh ways. The term “Modern Art” refers to those works of art, created somewhere between 1860s and 1970s.
The first movement was Impressionism. It was an art movement in France at the end of the 19th century.
The Impressionists were always searching for a more exact analysis of colour and light in nature. They tried to capture the atmosphere of a particular time of day and the fleeting effects of different weather conditions.
That was why they had to work very quickly. Besides, they were the first group of artists who worked ‘en plein air’ (outside).
It is important to say, that Impressionism was the first movement in the canon of modern art. It contributed greatly to the development of art in the 20th century.
Artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat pushed the boundaries of the style. Thus, Van Gogh pushed art towards Expressionism, Cézanne was the “father” of Cubism, and Gauguin turned to Fauvism.
- There are 6 movements in Modern art. – True / False / Not Stated
- Works of art, created somewhere between 1860s – 1970s are the examples of Modern Art. – True / False / Not Stated
- The first movement of Modern Art was Expressionism. – True / False / Not Stated
- Impressionists paid a lot of attention to the light in nature. — True / False / Not Stated
- Impressionists concentrate on the painting and don’t work quickly. — True / False / Not Stated
- They were the first painters, who worked outside — True / False / Not Stated
Task 8 — Underline the correct preposition
- For them it was like a quest in / for / of / by a more naturalistic representation of the visual world.
- Their expression in / for / of / by a more subjective personal vision was unusual in / for / of / by that time.
- in / for / of / by the early decades in / for / of / by the 19th century, some painters began to experiment with the simple act in / for / of / by observation.
- A well-known bridge is depicted in / for / of / by this picture.
- The picture is painted in / for / of / by warm colours.
- in / for / of / at the centre of the painting we can see a woman.
- in / for / of / at the background there is shabby old castle.
- in / for / of / at first glance, the picture looks strange.
- It is a real masterpiece in / for / at / by Claude Monet.
- Our attention is focused in / on / of / at this little girl.
Task 9 – These are the paintings by Claude Monet. Guess the titles of the paintings
1 — 2 — 3 —
4 — 5 —
- Impression, Sunrise
- Wheatstack
- Water lilies and the Japanese bridge
- Water Lilies
- Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
Task 10 – Read the text. Mark the sentences True / False / Not Stated
Claude Monet was the founder of the French Impressionism. The very term “Impressionism” comes from the title of his painting “Impression, Sunrise”, which was painted in 1872 and was exhibited in 1874.
He often painted the same things many times, because he wanted to capture the changing of light.
Thus, he painted a whole series, depicting his flower garden in Giverny. For example, the painting “Water lilies and the Japanese bridge”, created somewhere between 1897-1899. It is important to say, that he painted his lilies in vertical views making the Japanese bridge the central feature.
This scenery, its alternating light and reflections were an integral part of his work. Later he made the flowers and the water the central figures. It can be observed in the painting “Water Lilies”, created in 1915
Claude Monet painted not only flowers, water, but also wheat stacks. This “Wheatstack” was finished in 1891.
However, it should be noted, that Claude Monet often painted portraits. Take, for example, this portrait of his wife, finished in 1873.
So, as you can see, Claude Monet was an extraordinary painter, who revolutionized the Traditional Art.
- Monet’s painting “Impression, Sunrise” was exhibited in 1875. – True / False / Not Stated
- Monet never painted the same things. — True / False / Not Stated
- He had a house in Giverny. — True / False / Not Stated
- The painting “Water Lilies” was created between 1897-1899. — True / False / Not Stated
- He painted a whole series devoted to wheatstacks. — True / False / Not Stated
- In 1873 Monet painted a portrait of his wife. — True / False / Not Stated
Task 11 — Read the text. Put the paragraphs in the right order.
- As you see, Modern art unites lots of different movements. Sometimes it’s hard for us to understand the meaning of the painting, but we should remember the proverb “Tastes differ”. We are not the ones to judge. All the painters were really great people of their times!
- Later Impressionism painters pushed the boundaries of the style.
- One fresh movement is called Cubism. The movement was pioneered by Pablo Picasso. In Cubist painting, objects are broken into fragments and reorganized into geometric shapes.
- Such style as Surrealism can be seen in the paintings by Salvador Dali. The movement began in 1920 when a group of visual artists adopted automatism, a technique that relied on the subconscious for creativity. So, in these paintings we can see dreams, hallucinations, automatic or random image generation.
- That was why Realism painters like Honoré Daumier and Gustave Courbet focused their attention on different social classes, depicting social issues and poorer members of society.
- This style gave birth to Impressionism in 1860s. impressionists wanted to use visible brushstrokes, vivid colors with little mixing. Besides, their goal was to capture the emotion of light and movement in their compositions. It is important to say, that Impressionists were the first to paint en plein air. Such painters as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille were the first to introduce this movement.
- First of all, we should speak about Realism. This genre appeared after the French Revolution of 1848. People rejected Romanticism, the style, which dominated before. Painters of this new movement wanted to focus on scenes of contemporary people and their daily life. It was an attempt to revolutionise Art. All the painters were tired of depicting scenes from mythology and the Bible, or creating portraits of the nobility. After the Revolution it was out-of-date.
- We often use the term of “an Art movement”. But what is it? Generally, an Art movement is a style or tendency in art. It is formed by a group of artists, having a common goal and similar philosophy. Art movements are restricted by a period of time.
Task 12 – Read the characteristic features of art movements and match
Cubism
Impressionism
Realism
Romanticism
Surrealism
1 – Paintings of this style depict scenes of contemporary people and their daily life.
2 — In the paintings of this movement we can see dreams, hallucinations, automatic or random image generation.
3 – Painters depict objects, which are broken into fragments and reorganized into geometric shapes.
4 – Painters use visible brushstrokes, vivid colors with little mixing, they desire to capture the emotion of light and movement in their compositions.
5 – Painters depict scenes from mythology and the Bible, or create portraits of the nobility.
Task 13 — Look at the pictures. Who is the painter? What style is it? Match
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“Water Lilies” by Claude Monet. 1906 |
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Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin |
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Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet, 1854. by Gustave Courbet |
Impressionism |
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Géricault, Théodore: The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 |
Realism |
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“The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dalí. 1931 |
Cubism |
Task 14 — Do the crossword puzzle
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1. необычный 4. восходящий, становящийся известным 5. разнообразный 6. импрессионизм 8. перспектива (в искусстве) 9. фантастический, воображаемый, нереальный |
2. наследие 3. контрастный 7. менять, производить коренные изменения 10. энергичный, живой |
Task 15 — Each sentence has a mistake. Underline the mistake and correct it
1 – His legacy was to give people an opportunity to look on the world in a new way.
2 — He held lots of solo exhibits in Europe and the USA.
3 — Surrounding by the brilliant gold tones of the sunrise, the young lady rode her wonderful horse.
4 – This painter made a great contribution in the development of Impressionism.
5 – He is famous with his painting “The ninth wave”.
Task 16 — Translate into English
- Это портрет группы людей, собирающих виноград.
- На заднем плане мы видим сельскую местность.
- На переднем плане мы можем видеть группу женщин, несущих корзины, полные винограда.
- Картина выглядит очень реалистичной.
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 2
Read the words. Highlight in red the words, which have nothing to do with Art
Canvas
Chirp
Composition
Cricket
Crunch
Depiction
Exhibition
Foreground
Impressionism
Perspective
Scent
School
Shabby
Sleek
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 3
Read the sentences. Fill in the missing words
- In the foreground we can see a shabby old house.
- This painter uses contrasting colours – black and white.
- Impressionism is a new style, which appeared in the 1860s in France.
- Such painters as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas decided to revolutionise the traditional Art school.
- They arranged their composition so that the main subject commanded the viewer’s attention.
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 4
Read the sentences and fill in the gaps transforming the capitalized words
1 – EXHIBITION
2 – EMERGING
3 – CONTRIBUTION
4 – EXTRAORDINARY
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 6
Read the text. Fill in the gaps
What is Modern Art? It is a really good question. Generally, it includes different styles and movements of Art.
In 1860s artists started creating works of art in unusual, fresh ways. The term “Modern Art” refers to those works of art, created somewhere between 1860s and 1970s.
The first movement was Impressionism. It was an art movement in France at the end of the 19th century.
The Impressionists were always searching for a more exact analysis of colour and light in nature. They tried to capture the atmosphere of a particular time of day and the fleeting effects of different weather conditions.
That was why they had to work very quickly. Besides, they were the first group of artists who worked ‘en plein air’ (outside).
It is important to say, that Impressionism was the first movement in the canon of modern art. It contributed greatly to the development of art in the 20th century.
Artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat pushed the boundaries of the style, creating new movements like Expressionism, Cubism, and Fauvism.
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 7
Read the text. Mark the sentences True / False / Not stated
- Not Stated
- True
- False
- True
- False
- True
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 8
Underline the correct preposition
- For them it was like a quest for a more naturalistic representation of the visual world.
- Their expression of a more subjective personal vision was unusual for that time.
- In the early decades of the 19th century, some painters began to experiment with the simple act of observation.
- A well-known bridge is depicted in this picture.
- The picture is painted in warm colours.
- In the centre of the painting we can see a woman.
- In the background there is shabby old castle.
- At first glance, the picture looks strange.
- It is a real masterpiece by Claude Monet.
- Our attention is focused on this little girl.
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 9
These are the paintings by Claude Monet. Guess the titles of the paintings
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
e |
b |
d |
c |
a |
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 10
Read the text. Mark the sentences True / False / Not Stated
- False
- False
- True
- False
- Not Stated
- True
РАЗБОР РЕШЕНИЯ ТРЕНИРОВОЧНОГО ЗАДАНИЯ 11
Read the text. Put the paragraphs in the right order.
1 – h
2 – g
3 – e
4 – f
5 – b
6 – c
7 – d
8 — a
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Look at the pictures. Who is the painter? What style is it? Match
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet, 1854. by Gustave Courbet |
Realism |
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“Water Lilies” by Claude Monet. 1906 |
Impressionism |
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Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin |
Cubism |
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“The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dalí. 1931 |
Surrealism |
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Géricault, Théodore: The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 |
Romanticism |
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Each sentence has a mistake. Underline the mistake and correct it
1 – His legacy was to give people an opportunity to look on the world in a new way. – at
2 — He held lots of solo exhibits in Europe and the USA. – exhibitions.
3 — Surrounding by the brilliant gold tones of the sunrise, the young lady rode her wonderful horse. – Surrounded
4 – This painter made a great contribution in the development of Impressionism. – to
5 – He is famous with his painting “The ninth wave”. — for
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Translate into English
- This is a portrait of a group of people collecting grapes.
- In the background we see countryside.
- In the foreground we can see a group of women carrying baskets full of grapes.
- The painting (picture) looks very realistic.
Лексический материал урока
Art establishment – влиятельные круги в области искусств
Canvas — холст
Comforting — успокаивающий
Composition – композиция, расположение
Contrasting – контрастный
Contribution – вклад, вложение
Depiction – изображение
Emerging – восходящий, становящийся известным
Exhibition – выставка
Extraordinary – необычный, экстраординарный
Foreground – передний план
Impressionism – импрессионизм (стиль живописи, появившийся во Франции в 1860-е годы)
Legacy – наследие
Major – важный, главный
Multiple – разнообразный
Perspective – перспектива (в искусстве)
Prestigious – престижный, известный
Prosperous – богатый, состоятельный
Revolutionise – менять, производить коренные изменения
School – школа
Shifting – непостоянный, меняющийся, движущийся
Vibrant – энергичный, живой
Visionary – фантастический, воображаемый, нереальный
Widely – широко
ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ МАТЕРИАЛ
- Афанасьева О.В., Дули Дж., Михеева И.В. Английский в фокусе. 11 класс. Учебник для общеобразовательных организаций. – М.: Просвещение, 2017.стр 150