Punk - 1977

Bold colours lots of contrast

Displays attidute and her expression shows a devious and rebelling look.

modern technique no traditional media as punk bebelled against old people, rockers and hippies.

International Typographic Style.

Emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity

Characteristics of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text.

Surrealism - 1924

Characteristics of surrealism include

inexplicable happenings, dream like themes and hallucinations.

Like symbolism meanings are fed to the viewer through a strange art language which we have to de-code. The artist has used oil on canvas to create a realistic dream like world.

Bauhaus - 1933

It shuns ornamentation and favors functionality

Uses asymmetry and regularity versus symmetry

It grasps architecture in terms of space versus mass

Bauhaus buildings are usually cubic, favor right angles,

(although some feature rounded corners and balconies);

they have smooth facades and an open floor plan.

Constructivision - 1919

Tatlin Tower. Model of the Monument to the Third International

Developed from cubism and italian futurism.
Constructivists didnt want to create Art for Arts sake. They wanted their art to have social purpose.
It was a response to changes in thechnology and contemporary life, it advocated a change in the art scene, aiming to create a new order in art and architecture that referenced social and economical problems.

Tatlin's sculpture favours simple shapes like alot of constructivists did. The metal materials used depict the dominance of the machine in the modern world and its triumph over nature.

Futurism - 1910

The city Rises - 1910

Umberto Boccioni,

Futurists admored speed, technology, youth and violence, The car, teh airplane and the industrial city.
All that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature. They were also passionate nationalists. They were extrememly passionate and rebelled against harmony and good taste.
"the smear of madness"
"expression of violent desire which burns in the veins of every creative artist today"
"we rebel against spinless worshipping of old canvases, old statues and old bric-a-brac. Against everything which is filthy and worm ridden and corroded by time"
They praised originality however daring, however violent.

This painting feature what was at the time a modern urban scene in the background. Although put to the back of the painting and cornered with little detail, it seems to be the main part of the painting. Everything else seems to be flowing from it in a sea of force and intension. The artists thick and violent brush strokes show fast movement and represent determinatio, passion and the anticipation of futur events.

Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl (1963) on display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Used popular images and icons and incorporating and re-defining them in the art world.

Often subjects were derived from advertising and product packaging, celebrities, and comic strips.

The images are presented with a combination of humor, criticism and irony.

Abstract.

Abstract

Robert Delaunay
Rainbow, 1913
Oil on canvas

"Abstract art is art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead user colour and form in a non-representational way. It does not represent reality as we see it," en.mimi.hu/finearts/non-representational.html
This painting by Robert Delaunay is a good example of this. I can see trees, the sun, clouds and the rainbow but they are not represented in the usual way. The colours are almost random and the images look like their collaged.

Post Impressionism - 1886

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait of Émile Bernard

Post impressionists recected the limitations of Impressionism. They contintued the use of vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes and the real life subject matter. This painting shows all of theses characteristics. Post impressionism also distorted form for expressive effect and used unnatural or arbitrary colours. They wanted to add the structure to their paintings that Impressionism lacked.

This painting has a realistic subject but the texture looks more rubbery on his clothes and too rough on his skin. The colours in the painting are all very siilar creating an eerie and serious atmosphere. The lines are very soft looking adding to the atmosphere.

Art Deco 1939

Art deco 1939
Chrysler building

Art Deco is characterized by use of materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, lacquer and inlaid wood.
· The bold use of stepped forms and sweeping curves
Here the sunburst motif has been used which is typical of Art Deco.

De stijl - 1917

Mondrian CompRYB

Mondrian CompRYB

· Oil on canvas.
· Simple
· Interesting because it was new and different.

Dada - 1916

Dada

Hoch-Cut With the Kitchen Knife – 1919


Collage of pasted papers
Like cubism it is full and interesting with many of the same colours
Expressing reaction against the bourgeoir capitalist society

cubism - 1907

Juan Gris - 1912
Cubism
Juan Gris – 1912
Oil on canvas
Shapes create illusion
Fuzzy texture irregular create movement in the image
The similar colours make the picture more difficult to break up.
This cubist painting breaks traditional art rules by painting the subject for different viewpoints.
This painting is attempting to show the subject as the mind would see it and not the eye.

Fauvism 1905

Matisse - Green Line - 1905

Oil and tempera on canvas

wild brush work

strident colours,

subject matter has high degree of simplification and abstraction

strange and interesting