ART DURING MODERN PERIOD

1.Neoclassicism
2.Romanticism
3.Realism
4.Impressionism
5.Art Nouveau
6.Fauvism
7.Cubism
8.Futurism
NEOCLASSICISM
Enlightenment Era
Age of reason
Denotes of revival of classic
ideals and forms in art whose
theme is about heroic subjects
Embraces the music of Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven
ROMANTICISM
Zeitgeist: the general intellectual,
moral, and cultural climate of an era.
The Spirit of the Age.

In German, such a spirit is

known as "Zeitgeist," from the
German words Zeit, meaning
"time," and Geist, meaning
"spirit" or "ghost."
 Artists of Romanticism
emphasized the individual
 To break new ground in the
expression of emotion both
subtle and stormy.
 William Hazlitt,
in The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Described how the French Revolution
seemed “the dawn of a new era, a
new impulse had been given to men’s
minds.” And he said that the school of
Wordsworth “had its origin in the
French Revolution.”
 Characteristics of the
Romantic Period
 (1) Imagination, Emotions, and Intuition.
Exaltation of intense feelings.
 Rousseau: I felt before I thought.
 (2) Subjectivity of approach; the cult of
the individual; the absolute uniqueness of
every individual.
Characteristics of Romanticism
(3) Freedom of thought and
expression.
 A revolt against authority and
tyranny, against the ancient
regime, whether social, political,
religious, or artistic.
Characteristics of Romanticism
(4) Idealization of Nature
 Embracing the uncivilized, the wild,
the pre-civilized.
 Rousseau: “Man is born free and
everywhere he is in chains.” In other
words, civilization is in part the cause
of our corruption.
John Constable: The Hay Wain
But nature could also be frightening
in its power, and cause a dizzying
sense of awe and wonder.
J.M.W. Turner: Avalanche
A BRIEF SERIES OF PAINTINGS
FROM THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Starting with Sir Joshua
Reynolds, who was President of
the Royal Academy in England
Two Works by Henry Fuseli, a Swiss artist
living in England who was friends
with Blake
One of the most interesting artists
of the period is J.M.W. Turner
Starting with an early, fairly
conventional painting
And then to end on John
Constable
Who said, “I try to paint as if I
had never seen a painting
before.”
And then: Eugene Delacroix
REALISM
 Supports the
doctrine that
material objects
exist and are actual
facts
 Attempt to
describe human
behavior and
surroundings or to
represent figures
and objects
exactly as they
act or appear in
life.
  1850 to WWII
 ART: Realism,
French, Jean-
Francois Millet,
1814-1875,
 "The Gleaners,"
1857
IMPRESSIONISM
Is a movement that aimed to bring out
the effects of experience upon the
consciousness of the artist and
audience rather than the objective
quality of the subject of the artwork.
Works of this period are concerned
with the technique of suggesting light
and color rather than the subject
matter.
•Everyday - subjects and events
•Lighting - Captures effects of natural light . Color in
artwork is illuminated…or seems to glow
•Brushstrokes - Artists have broken the solid shape
into smaller pieces and blurred the edges, creating
dabs of color that blend together.
•Outdoor – air was a common setting
•Weather – weather and atmosphere were ‘captured’
(remember ELBOW)
 Claude Monet
 He wasn’t the first to
paint this way, but the
first to be “accepted”
and called an
Impressionist
 Main subjects were
nature and landscapes
 Painted same scenes day
after day to capture
changing of light
weather, atmosphere and
the changing of seasons
Woman in a Garden, 1867, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; This was a
study by Monet to show the effect of sunlight and shadow on color
 Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the
painting that gave its name to the style, IMPRESSIONISM
Georges Seurat
(1859-1891)
Georges Seurat was French painter who
founded a painting style called pointillism.
He began painting in the style of
Impressionism but soon became more
interested in scientific color theory. He is
famous for using little dabs or points of
pure bright color to paint. When viewed
from a distance, the eye mixes the colors
together
Sunday in The Park, Seurat
This painting has 3,456,000 dots!
Seurat's famous "A Sunday in the Park on
the Island of La Grande Jatte" (more
commonly known as "Sunday in the
Park"), which covered a wall (81 inches by
120 inches), took him two years to
complete. He was known for amazing
devotion and concentration. The dots in a
pointillist painting can be as small as 1/16
of an inch in diameter! Based on these
measurements, "Sunday in the Park" has
approximately 3,456,000 dots!
What is Pointillism?
Pointillism is a technique of
painting in which a lot of tiny
dots are combined to form a
picture. The reason for doing
pointillism instead of a picture
with physical mixing is that,
supposedly, physically mixing
colors dulls them. Most of the
painters of Seurat's time
blended the colors to make a
picture with a smoother
feeling than Seurat's bright,
dotty works.
 ART
NOUVEAU
ART NOUVEAU JEWELRY