Modern Art

• Art movement


  Emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized by a shift away from traditional styles to a more abstract, experimental approach to creating works of art
• Styles of Modern Art

  • Impressionism
  • Expressionism: Post-Impressionism
  • Pointilism: Divisionism
  • Fauvism
  • Cubism
  • De Stijl/Neoplasticism
  • Suprematism
• Impressionism


  • Subjects taken from everyday, ordinary life
  • Small, visible brushstrokes that offer the bare impression of form
  • Unblended color
  • Emphasis on the accurate depiction of natural light
• Expressionism


  Arts as an expression of the artist's emotion; may consist of unnatural representation
• Pointilism: Divisionism


  • Uses points or dots as the main visual element
  • Based on the principle of optical mixing
• Fauvism


  Came from the French word "fauve" that means "beast"; uses unnatural color for exciting visual effect
• Cubism


  • Flat projection and uses geometrical shapes
  • Subjects are in multi-view to suggest motion
• De Stijl/Neoplasticism


  Known as plastic art; a purely non-objective painting; represents subjectivity, not objects and uses rectilinear shapes and primary colors
• Suprematism


  Purely non-objective; reduction into most basic shapes and colors