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- 4.1: Impressionism
- This page outlines the key aspects of Impressionism, including the movement's origins, the collective efforts of artists like Monet and Degas, and its themes focused on modern life and bourgeois leisure. It highlights how changes in color usage, innovative techniques, and influences from Japanese art transformed traditional approaches.
- 4.2: Post-Impressionism
- This page explores Neo-Impressionism's evolution under artists like Seurat and Signac, emphasizing their innovative use of color theory and systematic techniques contrasting with Impressionism. The focus on socio-political themes, especially in leisure scenes, reveals the artists' engagement with social inequalities. Additionally, Van Gogh's journey highlights his emotional turmoil and artistic vision, paralleling Gauguin's exploration of culture and existential themes in his works.
- 4.3: Fauvism + Expressionism
- This page covers the evolution of early 20th-century art movements, particularly Fauvism and Expressionism. Fauvism, characterized by bold colors and emotional expression, led by Henri Matisse and André Derain, emphasized instinctual creativity influenced by non-Western art. The movement broke from realism, showcasing themes of joy and cultural eclecticism.
- 4.5: Color Field (1950s-1960s)
- Color field painting is closely associated with Abstract Expressionism, a movement whose beginnings were centered in New York City. The style of the color field was based on large spaces of a solid color, color its objective, color divorced from the pursuit of a specific context, color, itself the subjective concept.
- 4.6: Barnett Newman
- This page examines Barnett Newman's work, particularly "Onement," and its display at MoMA, emphasizing his distinctive painting techniques. It contrasts his abstract approach with artists like Millais and underscores Newman's impact on modern art and abstract expressionism, highlighting the interplay of various artistic styles.
- 4.7: Op Art (1960s – 1970s)
- Op Art was a new form based on the exploitation of illusions and different optical effects of how an image was perceived. Op Art is the short form of Optical Art, a style of abstraction challenging the viewer's visual acuity.
- 4.8: Tessellations
- This page covers the concept of tessellations, focusing on how shapes can repeat without gaps or overlaps through transformations like translation, rotation, and reflection. It distinguishes between regular tessellations formed by congruent polygons and Penrose tiling, which lacks a repeating pattern. The page discusses examples of shapes that tessellate, such as triangles, squares, and hexagons, and highlights the artistic influence of M.C.
- 4.9: Kinetic Art (1950s – 1960s)
- Op Art produced static images which gave the impression of movement. Kinetic art moved through mechanical methods and motors or viewer interaction, using natural air currents in space. The forerunner to kinetic art is found in the simplicity of Duchamp's bicycle in unplanned freewheeling motion.
- 4.10: Global Concerns
- This page examines the complexities of global cooperation and economic disparities in the 21st century, highlighting the impact of terrorism, the emergence of BRICS, and the roles of the UN and WTO amid criticisms of their effectiveness. It addresses global trade challenges, significant agreements such as the Paris Agreement and NPT, and the struggle against climate change.
4: PART 4- Color in Modern and Contemporary Art is shared under a CC BY license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Lisa Cianci.
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