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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.