The Industrial
Revolution and its Modern Art --
· Major
changes from 1760 - 1840.
· New
technology.
o Railroads
and steam trains.
o Bigger
and better factories.
o Mechanized
manufacturing and mass-production.
· Modernism was
a “break from the past”.
o Search
for new forms of expression; new ways to make art.
· Impressionists
were people whose art pieces were rejected by the Academia.
o Created
their own galleries.
¾
Claude Monet.
o Followers
of Impressionists would learn of this art style and utilize it to create their
own arts.
o Focused
quite a bit on nature.
o Less
“movement” in Impressionist art.
· Less
religious art; leisurely activities and talking about the here-and-now.
o Light
and vibrant atmosphere.
· Édouard
Manet was a massively influential artist for Impressionists.
o Bar
at the Folies-Bergère.
· Walter
Benjamin was a Marxist and German/Jewish philosopher and social
critic.
o Everything
he says will influence Modernists.
o Believed
that original art pieces were “losing their aura”.
o Modern
forms of art would only focus on politics, according to him.
· Clement
Greenberg was a controversial, yet influential and important
“Formalist”.
o Some
citizens thought he was an amazing artist, and some thought the complete
opposite.
o “Paintings
should be two-dimensional,” and, “sculptures should be three-dimensional.”
· Formalists
were art critics who see an image’s value in its visuals, instead of its
meaning.
o Formal
analysis.
· Jackson
Pollack was a jerk, but brilliant drip-painter/abstract artist.
· Abstract
Art was a form of art where there is no meaning behind the
design of a piece.
o Intense, light art.
o Random
splatters of paint; they are actually symbolic of differentiation.
· Surrealism is
the idea of creating art that is strange, abnormal, or unrealistic.
o Salvador
Dali becomes insanely famous for his dream-like, unnatural
art style.
· Cubism is
an art form where subjects are divided into different sections.
o Flat
(but vibrant) colors and lots of lines; two dimensional figures.
· Fauvism uses
more random paint.
· Minimalism
insists on using very little detail and materials to create a piece.
o Minimalists’
art was not about meaning.
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