Modern Painting

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Modern Painting
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IMPRESSIONISM (late 19th / early 20th c.)

• Modern painting grew out of a revolt against
  French impressionism. French impressionism was
  characterized by the study of light the attempt
  to capture the impression of light.

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Monet, Bathing at La Grenouillere, 1869
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Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876
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Pissarro, Boulevard Montmarte at various times
of day and in various types of weather, 1897
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POSTIMPRESSIONISM/EXPRESSIONISM

• Those artists who followed the Impressionists and
  to some extent rejected their ideas. They
• considered Impressionism too naturalistic
• sought to explore emotion in painting
• results from artists unique inner or personal
  vision
• Artists include van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne,
  Seurat, Signac, and Toulouse-Lautrec

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Van Gogh, La chambre de Van Gogh a Arles (Van
Gogh's Room at Arles), 1889
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Van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889
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Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Halo, 1889
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Gauguin, Tahitian Women OR On the Beach, 1891
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Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1897-1898
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Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902
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Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904-1906
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Matisse, Portrait of Andre Derain, 1905
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Matisse, The Jazz Series (cutouts), 1943-1944
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CUBISM

• Compositions of shapes and forms abstracted
  from the conventionally perceived world
• Founded by Picasso

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Picasso, Self-Portrait with Palette, 1906
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Picasso, Guitar and Violin, ca. 1912
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MORE EXPRESSIONISM EXTREME ABSTRACTION

• Kandinsky German Expressionist group, Der Blaue
  Reiter (The Blue Rider)
• Kandinsky was one of the first artists to explore
  complete abstraction, the elimination of
  representational elements
• Kandinsky saw abstractions as evolving blueprints
  for a more enlightened and liberated society
  emphasizing spirituality

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Kandinsky, Improvisation 7, 1910
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Kandinsky, Black and Violet, 1923
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Kandinsky, Composition X, 1939
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DADAISM

• Attacked all accepted standards of art and
  behavior
• Dada hobbyhorse (nonsensical)

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Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa with Moustache),
1919
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SURREALISM

• By 1924, most Dada artists joined the Surrealist
  movement
• Art that expresses the world of dreams and the
  unconscious wanted to bring outer and inner
  reality into single position
• Inspired by psychologists Freud and Jung
• 2 groups
• Biomorphic abstract forms that suggest natural
  forms
• Naturalistic recognizable scenes metamorphosed
  into dream image

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Joan Miró, Singing Fish
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Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
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Dali, Lighted Giraffes, 1936-1937
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Magritte, Lart de vivre