Expressionism

• Expressionist artist creted works with more emotional force, rather than with realistic or natural images.
• Among the various styles that arose within the expressionist art movements were:

  1. Neoprimitivism
  2. Fauvism
  3. Dadaism
  4. Surrealism
  5. Social realism
• Neoprimitivism was an art style that incorporated elements frim the vative arts of the South Sea Islander and th wood carving of African tribes that surged in popularity at that time.
• Amedeo Modigliani used the oval faces and elongated shapes of African art on both his sculpture and paintings.
• Works of Amedeo Modigliani:

  1. Head
  2. Yellow Sweater
• Fauvism was a style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.
• Fauvism name was derived from les fauves ("wild beasts")
• Les fauves referring to the group of French expressionist painters who painted in this style.
• Most known fauvism artist was Henri Matisse.
• Henri Matisse works :

  • Woman with Hat
  • Blue window
• Dadaism was a style characterized by dream fantasies, memories images, and visual tricks and surprises.
• Work of Giogio de Chirico

  • Melancoly anf Mystery of a Street
• Surrealism was a style that depicted an illogical, subconscious dream world that seemed to exist beyond the logical, conscious, physical one.
• Surealism name came from the term "super realism", with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality.
• Work os Salvador Dali:

  • Persistence of Memory
• Many surrealist works depicted morbid or gloomy subjects
• Best-known surrealist Salvador Dali
• Works in Surrealis

  1. I and the Village of March Chagall
  2. Diana of Paul Klee
  3. Personages with Star of Joan Miro
• The expressionists sought to convey their inner feelings through bold colors, strong lines, and distortions of form.
• Expressionism is characterized by exaggerated emotions and distorted forms.
• Social realism expressed the artist's role in social reform
• In social realism, artist used their works to protest against the injustice, inequalities, immortality, and ugliness of human condition.
• Ben Shahn's Miner's Wives, spoke out against the hazardous conditions faced by coal miners, after a tragic accident killed 111 workers in illinois in 1947, leaving their wives and children in mourning.
• Pablo Picasso's Guernica has been recognized as the most monumental and comprehensive statement of social realism against the brutality of war.
• While Epressionism ws emotional, abstractionism was logical and rational.
• Artist reduced a scene into geometrical shapes, pattens, lines, angles, textyres and swirls of color. The resulting works rnged from representational abstractionsim depicting still-recognizable subjects, to pure abstractionim where no recognizable subject could be discerned.
• Georges Braque work:

  • Oval still life
• Grouped under abstractionism are the following art styles:

  • Cubism
  • Futurism
  • Mechanical style
  • Nonobjectivsm
• The cubist style derived its name from the cube, a three-dimensional geometric figure composed of srictly measured lines, planes, and angles.
• Foremost among the cubists was Spanish painter/sculptor Pablo Picasso
• Pablo Picasso cubism works:

  • Three musicians
  • Girl before mirror
• Futurism began in Italy in the early 1900s
• As te name implies, fhe futurits created art for a fast-paced, machine-propelled age.
• Gino Severini work:

  Armored Tain
• As a result of the futurist movement, what became known as the mechanical style emerged.
• In mechanical styl, basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders all fit together precisely and neatly in their appointed places.
• Fednard Léger mechanical style work:

  • The city
• The logical geometrical conclusion of abstractionism came in the style known as nonobjectivism.
• From the very tern "non-objectives'" works in this style did not make use of figures or even representations of figures.
• Foremost mong the nonobjectivists was Dutch painter Piet Mondrian