Lesson 1 modern arts and life

National Christian Life College 2014

Modern Art and Life

Objectives:

1. Identify the Arts created from the 20th century up to the present2. Relate the 20th and century art to religion and life in general3. Explain the meaning of some forms of arts that reflects present-day life4. Create examples of the art based on one’s knowledge of modern art and culture


What is Modern Art?

The term of Modern art refers to the arts of the 20th century in Europe, America and in other regions under Western influence. Modern painting, sculpture, architecture, and other form of 20th-century art can be described as innovative. Modern art comprises a remarkable diversity of styles, movements, and techniques.


Juan Gris: BreakfastSpanish-born French

artist Juan Gris’s innovative use of collage in the first decades ofthe 20th century influenced the development of Synthetic Cubism, which involved constructing paintings and drawings from shapes cut out of paper. Breakfast is in the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.


What is the 20th century’s most important contribution to the history of art?

Among the 20th century’s most important

contribution to the history of art is the introduction of a wide range of new artistic techniques and materials. Many artists in the 20th century made used of concepts, materials or techniques that were never before associated with art. As a result, many people associate modern art with what is radical, innovative and shocking.


Man Crossing the Street

Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s elongated bronze figures convey a sense of isolation. Man Crossing the Street, from 1949, is in the Kunsthaus in Zύrich, Switzerland.


What are the characteristics of modern art?

Modern art comprises a remarkable diversity of styles, movements, and techniques. The wide range of styles encompasses realistic styles of abstract styles. It is in the modern period that artists have made paintings not only of traditional material such as oil on canvass, but of any material available to them. This innovation led to developments that were even more radical, such as conceptual and performance art—movements that expanded the definition of art to include not just physical objects but ideas and action as well .


Suprematism

Attempting to reduce art to its purest essence. Russian artist Kasimir Malevich remove all outside references from his paintings, creating completely non-objective works. His radical abstraction, known as Suprematism, was completed around 1916 and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Krasnodar, Russia.


Some claims that modern art by nature is rebellious and that this rebellion is most evident in the quest for originality and a continual desire to shock. The term avant-garde, which is often applied to modern art, comes from a French military term meaning ’’advance guard’’, and suggests that what is modern is what is new, original, or cutting edge


Recumbent figure

Although abstract, the sculptures of relining nudes by British artists Henry Moore retain recognizable human forms. With their soft curves and hollows, these figures bear a resemblance to landscapes, and they recall the art of many earlier periods. Recumbent Figure(1938) is at the Tate Gallery in London, England.


•The most important characteristic of modern art is its attempt to make to make painting and sculpture the ends in themselves. Unlike earlier forms of art that were used to convey ideas of powerful religious institutions, art during this period is used solely for artistic purposes. Modern art’s celebration for this ‘’art for art’s sake’’ theory was initiated by French artists associated with Impressionism. It includes Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Berthe Morisot. These Impressionists abandoned direct references to religious and historical subjects. Instead, they painted scenes of everyday life, especially life in local bars and theaters.


What is unique about modern art? Many artists in the 20th century tried to redefine what art means. In other words, they attempted to expand the definition of art to include concepts, materials, or techniques that were never before associated with art. Some examples are the following.


1.In 1917, for example, French artist Marcel Duchamp exhibited everyday, mass-produced, utilitarian objets-including a bicycle wheel and a urinal-as works of art.


Bicycle wheel

French-born artist Marcel Duchamp the course of modern art in 1913 bi exhibiting a bicycle turned upside down and mounted on a kitchen stool. Bicycle Wheel was the 1st of duchamp’s so-called “readymades,” ordinary objects that he turned into objects of art by changing their context and exhibiting them as sculpture.Shown here is a 1964 replica of the original, which is now lost.


2. In the 1950s and 1960s, American artist Allan Kaprow used his own body as an artistic medium in spontaneous performances that he declared to be at works.


3. In the 1970s, American earthwork artist Robert Smithson used unaltered elements of the environment-earth,rock, and water-as materials for his sculptural pieces.

Smithson’s Spiral JettyRobert Smithson was one of the pioneering

artists of the earthworks movement of the 196s and 1970s. In Spiral Jetty (1970), one of the best- known earthworks ,Smithson explored time and entropy- the tendency toward disorder in nature. Spiral Jetty, a narrow coil of black rock edge in salt, extends about 460m (500 yds) into the Great Salt Lake of Utah and is periodically submerged by water.

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