The Moderns

l’art pour l’art art for art’s

sake…

Basics about the era•1850 to 1900

•Art needs no justification (a reflection of aestheticism a philosophy which is a reaction to utilitarianism)

•Artists work for themselves and for their own artistic values

•Invention of photography introduces a new art form

Realism Gustave Courbet

The Stormy Sea (1869)

A style based on the theory that the method of artistic presentation should be true to life.

Jean-Francois MilletThe Gleaners (1857)

Realism Faithful representation of reality.

Honore DaumierThird Class Carriage

My effort has been to give the human touch "which makes the whole world kin" and which ever remains the same. - H.O. Tanner

The Banjo Lesson1893

Impressionism Claude Monet

Water LiliesAn approach that evokes subjective and sensory impressions, including mood.

Claude Monet

(1840-1926)

Regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career.It is fitting that one of his pictures, Impression: Sunrise

gave the group his name.

Regatta at Argenteuil (1872)

La Japonaise (1876)

Claude Monet was facinated with Japanese

art. He collected Japanese prints

and was influenced by

their style.

The Japanese Bridge (c. 1918)

Vincent VanGogh

(1853 – 1890)• Possibly the greatest

Dutch painter after Rembrandt

• He influenced the current of modern art.

• His work was produced during a period of only 10 years. He uses striking colour, coarse brushwork, and contoured forms.

• He suffered from mental illness that eventually resulted in suicide.

The Starry Night (1889)

The Church

at Auvers-sur-Oise

(1890)

Still Life of Sun

Flowers

Paul Cezanne Mont Sainte-Victoire (1900)

All of his objects are full of life: "We may think that a sugar bowl doesn't have a body or a soul. But it changes everyday. You have to get to know it,

to earn its trust..."  

                                                   

James Whistler

Arrange-ment in

Grey and Black

1871

Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841 - 1919

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

The Luncheon of the Boating Party

1881

The Umbrellas (1886)Renoir was attempting to move away from the Impressionist style, to a structural one. He met Paul Cezanne. The Umbrellas very clearly exemplifies this period in Renoir’s life, and is two paintings in one; the figures on the right are painted in the Impressionist style, while those on the left as well as the umbrellas show the attempt to use the new style and form.

Post-ImpressionsismA diverse art style in which the essentials of perception are portrayed through concentration on light, atmosphere and color.

Paul GauginThe Women of Tahiti (1893)

Expressionism

A visual and performace style that seeks to express the artists emotions rather than accurately represent line or form.

Wassily Kandinsky Autumn in Bavaria (1908)

Cubism

A style that violates the usual concepts of two and three dimensional space and involves use of geometric shapes.

Pablo Picasso (1881-

1973) We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.”

The Old Guitarist (1904)

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910)

Picasso invited the viewer to examine the figures and shapes that he broke down and recombined in totally new ways. In this portrait, the subject, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a dealer who championed Picasso’s radical new style, has been fractured into various planes and shapes, and is presented from several points of view. From flickering, partially transparent planes of brown, gray, black, and white emerges his upper torso, hands clasped in his lap.