Modern Art Museum

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Modern Art Museum
What will be included in Memphis New

• Presentation by
• Miriam Dolin

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Fauvism

• A short-lived painting movement, in the first
  decade of the 20th Century, translating from
  French as Wild Beast.
• Fauvists believed color was the key to emotion
  and mostly used brilliant colors.
• This style is characterized by arbitrary use of
  colors and a Primitive application of paint.
• The main Artist was Henri Matisse.
• Most artists in this movement quickly moved onto
  Cubism.

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Fauvism
Henri Matisse 1908 The Desert Harmony in Red
Andre Derain 1906 Charing Cross Bridge, London
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Cubism

• This movement was begun by Pablo Picasso and
  Georges Braques in France (1907-1914) with
  inspiration from the Fauvists and African
  Sculpture.
• Artists broke apart an image, analyzed its parts,
  and then put it back together again in abstract
  form so the art looks scrambled.
• Painting and Sculpture are the major forms of
  Cubist art.

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Cubism
Pablo Picasso, 1912 Glass and Bottle of Suze
Juan Gris, 1912 Man in the Cafe
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Expressionism

• Expressionism is a Subjective art form which is
  found mostly in paintings, but also can be found
  in literature, theater, and film.
• Expressionists distort reality in order to gain
  an emotional response.
• Expressionists often use brilliant colors and
  alarming subjects.

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Expressionism
Edvard Munch, 1893 The Scream
Marc Chagall, 1950 La Mariee
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Surrealism

• Surrealism, inspired by Freuds writings, began
  as a philosophical movement and then moved into
  art.
• The major feature of surrealistic art is an
  element of surprise or the unexpected, often
  manifested as unusual juxtapositions.
• Surrealism can be seen in painting, architecture,
  and film.

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Surrealism
Salvador Dali, 1931 The Persistence of Memory
Ives Tanguy, 1942 Indefinite Divisibility
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Pop Art

• This artistic movement arose simultaneously in
  Britain and the USA in the 1950s.
• Pop Art uses images from popular mass culture
  (advertising, comics, mass communications).
• Pop Art is usually seen as a reaction to the
  growing Mass Culture of the 20th Century.

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Pop Art
Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 Drowning Girl
Andy Warhol, 1958 Marilyn Monroe
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References

• www.ibiblio.org
• www.Wikipedia.org
• www.artlex.com
• www.artchive.com
• www.askart.com