Presentation made for grade 8 high school students showing the various art movements in the 20th century with a focus on Impressionism

1. Modern Art
Movements
November 13, 2020
Ms. Johnson

2. Modern art
I felt before I thought
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
• Modern Art refers to the
period in art when artists
neglected the academic ways
of creating works(left) and
decided to experiment more
with different types of art,
materials, colours and subject
matters(right).
• Modern Art started in the late
19th century following the rise
the Industrial Revolution
alongside the ideas many great
philosophers of the time
started to push(such as Freud
etc).
• Modern Art artists began to
realize the actual value of
art(financially, spiritually,
psychologically etc.).

3. Art Movements • Modern Art is broken
down into several Art
Movements
• Art Movements are the
collective titles that are
given to artworks which
share the same artistic
ideals, style, technical
approach or timeframe.
• Art Movements are
typically named after
the movement has
started and is strongly
influenced by things
happening in the world.

4. Social
Movement
• A social movement is a loosely organized
effort by a large group of people to achieve a
particular goal, typically a social or political
one.
• Art movements are STRONGLY influenced by
social movements.

5. Name a social movement
that is currently happening
in society.
Have you seen any effect on the kind of Art being produced
nowadays?
Paintings, Drawings, Posters, Advertisements, Social Media?

6. A Few Movements of the 21st Century
• #MeToo Movement
• Black Nationalism Movement (#BLM)
• Gay Rights Movement
• Dump Trump Movement
• TikTok Movement

11. What are the years in
the 17th century?
A. 1600-1699
B. 1700-1799
C. 1800-1899

12. 20th century
Modern Art
movements:
1900-1999
• Abstract
expressionism
• Art deco
• Bauhaus
• Colour-field painting
• Conceptual art
• Constructivism
• Cubism
• Dada
• De stijl
• Der blaue reiter
• Deutscher
werkbund
• Die brücke
• The eight
• Expressionism
• Fauvism
• Fluxus
• Futurism
• Group f.64
• Harlem renaissance
• Impressionism
• Metaphysical
painting
• Minimalism
• Neo-expressionism
• New objectivity
• Op art
• Orphism
• Performance art
• Photo-realism
• Photo secession
• Pop art
• Precisionism
• Purism
• Social realism
• Street photography
• Suprematism
• Surrealism
• Tachism
• Vorticism

13. The Most
Influential
Movements
Of Modern
Art
Impressionism(1870-1910)
Fauvism(1905-07)
Cubism(1908-14)
Expressionism(1905-20)
Dadaism(1916-24)
Surrealism(1924-66)
Abstract Expressionism(1948-60)
Pop Art (1955-70)

16. Impressionism(1870-1910)
• Began at the end of the 19th century
• A Style/Movement in art characterized by the artist’s
desire to capture how light affects the subject matter.
• This style was rejected by a jury for the Paris Salon(an
official state sponsored exhibition)
• The name 'Impressionism' comes from a sarcastic
review of Monet's painting, 'Impression, Sunrise'
(1873), written by Louis Leroy in a magazine following
an exhibition put on by the Salon called Salon des
Refuses.
• Works were considered unfinished and ‘slap-dashed’
due to the movements that occurred before.

17. Academic Art vs Impressionism
Jacques Louis David, “The Death of Socrates” -
1787
Claude Monet, “Impression: Sunrise” -
1872
Can you see why the Academy would be mad about Monet’s Sunrise?

18. • The Impressionists were
the first group of artists
to embrace painting 'en
plein air' (outside).
• This allowed them to
capture the
atmospheric light faster
and with ease
• With smaller canvases
being made and oil
paints in tubes(1841),
they were able to do
entire artworks outside

19. Why are the colours in each work different?

20. Techniques
• The Impressionists painted with small
strokes of pure colours which mixed in
the eye of the spectator when viewed
from a distance.
• This meant that they had to paint quickly
to capture the atmosphere of a particular
time of day or the effects of different
weather conditions on the landscape.
• The speed of the Impressionists' painting
technique forced them to sacrifice
accurate line and detail in favour of
atmospheric effect.

21. Impressionist Painting
Demonstration
https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=wga1qP_z
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22. Subject Matter
• The subject most suited to the
Impressionist technique was landscape,
but they also painted portraits, still lifes
and figure compositions.
• The Impressionists embraced the everyday
life as a subject matter

25. Main artists
associated with
Impressionism:
Claude Monet
Pierre Auguste
Renoir
Camille Pissarro Edgar Degas
Alfred Sisley
Henri Marie
Raymond de
Toulouse-Lautrec.

26. Let’s take a personal quiz!
Which Art Movement Are You?
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/quiz-which-art-
movement-are-you

27. ImpressionismActivity
• Go en plein air in your most
comfortable painting clothes
along with your paints, your
paintbrush and your paper. Create
an Impressionist painting of a
landscape.
• Be loose with your brush strokes
and pay attention to the effect of
light on the objects in your
artwork.
• Remember, for Impressionism, you
stop at your beginning!
If you don’t have any paint, you can use wax crayons or even do it digitally!
Use a phone or tablet to create your masterpieces.
Painting Like an Impressionist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JTazf7tH44