HISTORY OF MODERN ART

HISTORY OF MODERN ART. GROUP 5.

WHAT IS MODERN ART. "modern painting" or "modern sculpture" today, may not be seen as modern in fifty years time. Even so, it is traditional to say that "Modern Art" means works produced during the approximate period 1870-1970..

When did modern art begin?. The date most commonly cited as marking the birth of "modern art" is 1863 - the year that Edouard Manet (1832-83) exhibited his shocking and irreverent painting Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refuses in Paris..

Main Characteristic of Modern Art?. (1) New Types of Art Modern artists were the first to develop collage art , assorted forms of assemblage , a variety of kinetic art ( inc mobiles), several genres of photography, animation (drawing plus photography) land art or earthworks, and performance art ..

Main Characteristic of Modern Art?. (2) Use of New Materials Modern painters affixed objects to their canvases, such as fragments of newspaper and other items. Sculptors used "found objects", like the " readymades " of Marcel Duchamp , from which they created works of Junk art. Assemblages were created out of the most ordinary everyday items, like cars, clocks, suitcases, wooden boxes and other items.

Main Characteristic of Modern Art?. (3) Expressive Use of Colour Movements of modern art like Fauvism, Expressionism and Colour Field painting were the first to exploit colour in a major way..

Main Characteristic of Modern Art?. (4) New Techniques Chromolithography was invented by the poster artist Jules Cheret , automatic drawing was developed by surrealist painters, as was Frottage and Decalcomania. Gesturalist painters invented Action Painting. Pop artists introduced " Benday dots", and silkscreen printing in to fine art. Other movements and schools of modern art which introduced new painting techniques, included: Neo-Impressionism, the Macchiaioli , Synthetism , Cloisonnism , Gesturalism , Tachisme , Kinetic Art, Neo-Dada and Op-Art..