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.