The Modern World in Art

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S T Y L E


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What is Style?Style refers to the unique handling or mannerismby which we might identify the artist. In thissense, style could mean as the handwriting ofan artist who is strong enough to have a point ofview, or message of his own. We become awareof a style when we repeatedly experiencecontinuities of form and content over time.


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At the turn of the 20th century, painters were seenrepresenting the visible world in uniqueways through styles, trends, and art movements never

before seen by the public. In this way, theartist has become modernist because the traditionalway of representation a display of ones technical skilland realism, was just not enough.

What Are the Popular ModernStyles of Painting?


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The RealistsRealism was a movement that developed in France aroundmid-19th century. Gustave Courbet was in the forefront ofthis group of artists. He and other artists became known asthe Realists. Their style, known as Realism, representedeveryday scenes and ordinary people as they actually look.The viewers of the time found this choice of subject and

manner of presentation fascinating.

In an age when only religiousand historical or mythologicalscenes were consideredgreat art, this was arevolutionary idea.


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The ImpressionistsIn 1874, a group of artist held an exhibition in Paris. One of these artists wasClaude Monet, who exhibited a painting titled Impression : Sunrise (1872). Oilon canvas, Muse Marmottan, Paris. The critics were shocked by what they sawthat they took the word Impression from Monets title and used it as a labelwhen referring, unkindly, to all the works in the exhibition. The movement, calledImpressionism, was described as an art style that tried to capture an impressionof what the eye sees at a given moment and the effect of sunlight on the subject.The Impressionists painted quickly in order to capture the impression of thesubject right at the moment.

The Impressionists painted quickly in orderto capture the impression of the subjectright at the moment. They also preferredpainting outdoors because they believed

that the color of shade was influenced bythe surrounding colors and by light, andtherefore must shine and filter throughfoliage and flood onto the objects in thepainting.


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The PointillistsGeorges Seurat, who painted the Sunday Afternoon in the Island of La

Grand Jatte in 1884 1886, is one of the main figures in the art movement called

Pointillism. It is a style which departed from the fading Impressionism to seeksomething solid and durable.

The pointillists stuck to the idea of using individual bits of color to form definedshapes. The color itself is applied with great precision instead of freely as inImpressionism blurry painting approach. A Seurat painting is composed of

thousand and thousands individuals flecks of pure color, combined in proportionswith others that will be blended by the eye

into the desired final color.


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The FauvistsAmong the many Fauvist artists was Andr Derain. In his painting titled View ofCollioure , Derain used short brush strokes from pure and unmixed pigments,

sometimes applied straight from the tube. The foreground which other partiesbefore would have labored over until firmly blended, is nothing but energeticswarms of brush strokes. The Fauvist a chance remarkedby a critic who thought the roomful of Fauvist works looked like a cage of wild beasts were known to paint with violent clashes of color and distortions of

shapes and figures. Derain like his friend Henri Matisse and other Fauvists freedcolor its role in describing objects.


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The SurrealistsThe appeal of fantastic art to artists of modern art was picked up by theSurrealists. For them, it is a word of pure imagination and personal expression.Giorgio de Chirico created one of the first of those invented worlds and one ofthe most enduring. The world he creates is at once desolate and intimate,empty but filled with suggestions, deserted yet full of mysterious presence.Chirico wrote that a painting should bring to the observer the sensation ofsomething new, something he had never known before. Other Surrealists

used automatism the creation of art without conscious control as in intuitionand dream experience.


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The Abstract ExpressionistsAs the name suggests, the artist associated with Abstract Expressionism

produced paintings that are abstract but expressed the artists state of mind. Thiscreative state of mind opens channels for unconscious forces to make themselvesvisible. The Abstract Expressionists turned inward to create, and the resultingworks convey a rough spontaneity and great energy. The viewer of works done byAbstract Expressionists is advised to grasp their meaning intuitively in a state freefrom structured thinking.


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