Modern Art

what is modern art? http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/20centpa/20centpa-main1.html http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761568672 Modern Art, painting, sculpture, and other forms of 20th-century art. Although scholars disagree as to precisely when the modern period began, they mostly use the term modern art to refer to art of the 20th century in Europe and the Americas, as well as in other regions under Western influence. The modern period has been a particularly innovative one. Among the 20th century’s most important contributions to the history of art are the invention of abstraction (art that does not imitate the appearance of things), the introduction of a wide range of new artistic techniques and materials, and even the redefinition of the boundaries of art itself.

art for art's sake http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2242/1598_274/54405266/p1/article.jhtml http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761568672 This attitude is often expressed as art for art's sake, a point of view that is often interpreted as meaning art without political or religious motives. But even if religious and government institutions no longer commissioned most art, many modern artists still sought to convey spiritual or political messages.

abstract expressionism http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761568672 http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/abstract-expressionism.html Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It is form of non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no concrete objects represented. Abstract expressionists emphasized the process of painting, by allowing evidence of the artist’s gestures to remain visible on the canvas surface. Among the leaders of this movement were Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Hans Hofmann. They also introduced all-over composition, in which visual marks are distributed in such a way as to produce no visual center of attention.

collage ABSTRACT-ART.COM marcel duchamp Collage - technique in art consisting of cutting and pasting natural or manufactured materials to a painted or unpainted surface-hence, a work of art in this medium. The art of collage was initiated in 1912 when Picasso pasted a section of commercially printed oilcloth to his cubist painting, Still Life with Chair Caning (Mus. of Modern Art, New York City). Collage elements appear in works by Gris, Braque, Malevich, Dove, and the futurist artists. A basic means of Dada and surrealist art, it was used by Arp, Schwitters, and Ernst. Collage is related to the newer art of assemblage, in which the traditional painted canvas has been abandoned in favor of the assembling of bits of material, which are sometimes additionally painted or carved.

Fauvism fauvism Fauvism was accepted as a new art movement in 1905, after the fading of Post-Impressionism. Fauvism officially began with an art exhibition called the Salon d Automne. The artists gathered here to exhibit their newest works. http://www.the-artists.org/MovementView.cfm?id=8A01EE92-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40 http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/fauve/ Important -Georges Braque Charles Camoin Andre Derain Kees-van Dongen Raoul Dufy Emile-Othon Friesz Paul Gauguin Henry Manguin Albert Marquet Henri Matisse Jules Pascin Georges Rouault Maurice-de Vlaminck

Cubism cubism Cubism was developed between about 1908 and 1912 in a collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Their immediate influences are said to be Tribal Art (although Braque later disputed this) and the work of Paul Cezanne. The movement itself was not long-lived or widespread, but it began an immense creative explosion which resonated through all of 20th century art.

Futurism futurism Early 20th-century artistic movement that centered in Italy and emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life in general. The most significant results of the movement were in the visual arts and poetry. The futurists, a group of Italian artists working between 1909 and 1916, shared Léger's enthusiasm for technology, but pushed it even further. As their name suggests, the futurists embraced all that glorified new technology and mechanization and decried anything that had to do with tradition. They declared a speeding automobile to be more beautiful than an ancient Greek statue. Umberto Boccioni Giacomo Balla Carlo Carrà Gino Severini - http://www.futurism.fsnet.co.uk/severini/sev_frames.htm

dada Dada http://art.dada.it/exhibit.html For this group, the main lesson of the war, if anything, was the bankruptcy of reason, politics, technology, and even art itself. On this premise, several artists and poets founded a movement whose name, dada, was purposely meaningless, and whose members ridiculed anything having to do with culture, politics, or aesthetics. Centered at first in Zürich, Switzerland, dada later spread to Berlin, Paris, and New York City. Among its members were German poet Hugo Ball, German artist Kurt Schwitters, Romanian poet Tristan Tzara, Romanian artist Marcel Janco, American artist Man Ray, and French artists Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Picabia. The dadaists attacked the idea of art or poetry by creating collage constructions from discarded junk.

Surrealism surrealism Surrealism is characterized by dreamlike images

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