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Creative Industries 1: Arts and Design Appreciation and Production.
Modern art
BAUHAUS
DADASURREALISM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
POP ART
ABSTRACT
Surrealism-Influenced by the Dada movement.-From the studies of Freud about the inner working of the mind.-Appreciate the mysteries of dreams and the unconscious, and the appeal to the bizarre and the strange.-World made of pure imagination and personal expression.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
• Used hallucinatory characters
• Some of his work included sexual figures
• Colorful personality
Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
• Uses everyday images• It is suspected that he
hides the faces in his work because his mom was found dead with her dress covering her face.
Not To Be Reproduced
The Lovers
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
LEADING ARTISTS:JACKSON POLLOCK
MARK ROTHKOWILLEM DE KOONING
FRANZ KLINE
THIS WAS CONSIDERED VERY SERIOUS “HIGH” ART
ART CRITICS PLAYED A LARGE ROLE IN MAKING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM A LEADING ART FORM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTSABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS:- WERE INFLUENCED BY SURREALISTS
AND THEIR WORK WITH THE UNCONCIOUS
- -ALSO PICASSO & CUBISM- -THEY TRIED TO PAINT ABSTRACT
EMOTIONS WHICH THEY SAW AS “PURE” AND “TRUE”
- -THEY MADE MASSIVE PAINTINGS- -THEY CARED ABOUT THE PROCESS
OF PAINTING
CAN BE SPLIT INTO TWO BROAD STYLES:
THE ACTION PAINTERS&
THE COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS
JACKSON POLLOCK 1912-1956LEADER OF THE ACTION PAINTERS
MARK ROTHKO 1903- 1970 LEAD THE COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS
“ACTION PAINTERS”:- -GESTURAL
- -MOVEMENT- -ACTION
- DIRECTION- THICK PAINT
- -LARGE SCALE- -BOLD BRUSH
STROKES
COLOUR FIELD PAINTERS:- -LARGE FIELDS OR
SHAPES OF COLOUR- -FIELDS SEEM TO HOVER OR “FLOAT”- -BLENDED BRUSH
STROKES- -CALM AND GENTLE- -SPIRITUAL- -MEDITATIVE QUALITY
POP ART1960’s: Rebelled against the SERIOUSNESS
of the Abstract Expressionists
What is Pop Art?• Pop Art is art that is based on popular
culture and the mass media– Reflects current values of society/culture– Uses images borrowed from advertising,
photography, comic strips and other mass media sources
• Pop Art is influenced from two dimensional images
• Mechanical Production– Screen Printing– Machine Produced– Emphasis on Mass Production
Where Did Pop Art Come From?
• Visual art movement that began mid 1950s in Britain, late 1950s in the U.S.
• The Independent Group founded in London in 1952 was precursor to the Pop Art Movement
• Lawrence Alloway- “The Arts and the Mass Media”– Popular Mass Culture= led to term
Pop Art
History Of Pop Art
• 1950’s!– Period of optimism– Consumer boom– Products mass marketed,
advertised• Independent Group
– Aimed at symbols/ images from media
• Coincided with youth and pop music phenomenon
Influences• Pop art widely interpreted as
reversal or reaction to Abstract Expressionism– emotional expression with particular
emphasis on the spontaneous act• Drew upon DADAist elements
– Movement that mocked artistic and social conventions. Emphasized the illogical and absurd.
– Favored montage, collage and the readymade
Characteristics• Brings back the subject• Questions art as a commodity
and as a unique art form• Everyday subject matter• Marked by
– Clear lines– Bold colors– Sharp paintwork– Clear representations of symbols,
objects, and people common in pop culture
Techniques• Central focus= commercial art
– Styles of popular culture and the mass media– News paper, comics, advertising, consumer
goods– Mass production– Low cost– Expendable– "Like a joke without humor, told over
and over again until it begins to sound like a threat... Advertising art which advertises itself as art that hates advertising.” Harold Rosenberg
Andy Warhol• Born August 8th 1928• One of the most
influential artists on the 20th century
• Famous for– Avant-guard pop art
paintings and screen printings
Campbell’s Soup Can 1964Andy WarholSilkscreen on Canvas
Marilyn Monroe 1967
Andy WarholScreenprint on white paper
Roy Lichtenstein• Born October 27, 1923• Began first pop
paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing– Included use of
advertising suggesting consumerism that reflected home life
The Drowning GirlRoy Lichtenstein1963
Summary• Characterized by bold, simple,
everyday imagery, and vibrant block colors.
• Influenced by abstract expressionism and DADAism
• Reflects pop culture and consumerism
• Easy to understand, recognize and interpret
• Major artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein
What is abstract art?• This is an example of abstract art.• What do you think abstract means?
Abstract Art
• Abstract artists felt that paintings did not have to show only things that were recognizable. In their paintings they did not try to show people, animals, or places exactly as they appeared in the real world.
• They mainly used color and shape in their paintings to show emotions. Some Abstract art is also called Non-objective art. In non-objective art, you do not see specific objects. It is not painted to look like something specific.
Which artwork is abstract?
What is non-objective art?
• Non-objective artists use color and shape in their paintings to show emotions. Some Abstract art is also called Non-objective art.
• In non-objective art, you do not see specific objects. It is not painted to look like something specific.
All of these artworks are abstract. But, which one(s) of them are non-objective?
Vasily Kandinsky, non-objective art, and the interdisciplinary nature of visual art
Composition VIII, 1923
Yellow, Red, Blue, 1925
Kandinsky was a non-objective artist.
What does drawing what you hear look like?
Kandinsky’s liked many kinds of music. He especially liked a musician named Tschaikovsky.
He listened to Tschaikovsky while he painted.