Modern Art Packet Made by Liesl homeschoolden.com ©homeschoolden.com Copyright Notice: Feel free to make as many copies as you need for your kids or the students in your classroom. This file may not be shared with others. This file may not be uploaded to any file sharing website. You may not reproduce, repackage, or redistribute the contents of homeschoolden.com downloads, in whole or in part, for any reason. Image Credits: Paintings in this packet are available under a Creative Commons License. Modern Art Unit By: _______________ Name: ___________________________ Modern Art Movements Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s. It includes a wide range of styles. Usually, it is a term used for art that has thrown off traditions of the past in a spirit of experimentation… with color, technique, themes and so forth. Impressionism This group of artists captured a moment in time, often capturing the way sunlight, color and shadow appeared in every-day events. They used more color and often used lots of paint to show movement in their paintings. Instead of using broad strokes, they applied small touches of bright color. Some of the greatest impressionist artists were Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre Auguste Renoir. Neo-Impressionism The Neo-Impressionists were a group within the impressionists who experiments with a new technique. Instead of mixing colors on the palette or on the canvas, they placed small dots side by side. They relied on the viewer’s eye to blend colors. These artists were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and seashores. Some of the artists that experimented with this technique included Seurat and Signac. Others included Henri- Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Maximilien Luce, Théo Van Rysselberghe, and, for a time, the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. ©homeschoolden.com Post-Impressionism This is a very broad term used to discuss art in the 1880s and early 20th century. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. This movement emphasized abstract qualities or symbolic content – so it encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne (known as father of Post-impressionism), Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau and Georges Seurat, who we read about above and is sometimes referred to as a Neo- Impressionist. Fauvism Fauvism is a a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color. They used bright color aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas. This term means “wild beast” in French and was first used by a well-known art critic of the time. The small group of artists he was criticizing used this term to celebrate their unique style The leader of the group was Henri Matisse. Other Fauvists included André Derain, who had attended school with Matisse in 1898–99, and Maurice de Vlaminck, who was Derain’s friend. ©homeschoolden.com Expressionism Expressionism is not limited to art and painting, the style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. Expressionist artists express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism emerged as widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality. Artists used distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. Expressionism appeared in different artwork across Europe, especially during the period 1905 to 1920. Artists expressed themselves with strong color and distorted figures to explore themes of belonging and alienation. Expressionism was inspired most heavily by the Symbolist currents in late-19th-century art. Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor and included artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele of Austria, Georges Rouault and Chaim Soutine in France, the painter Max Beckmann, the graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz, and the sculptors Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck of Germany. Cubism The first Cubist exhibition took place in 1911. It was started by Picasso and Bruque. It was inspired by Cezanne’s use of multiple viewpoints in a single painting. Cubist artists used geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage. ©homeschoolden.com Other Art Movements: Futurism Neo-Plasticism Surrealism Dadaism Abstract Expressionism Suprematism Pop Art Constructivism Op Art ©homeschoolden.com Modern Art Overview Activity: Our first activity was a general overview of many of these art movements (so that the kids were familiar with the general art terms above). You can print out a version with the pictures on the notebook pages (the previous pages) or you can print out the notebook pages and have your students cut and paste the sets of pictures as you briefly touch on each art movement. (You could also do this at the end or your unit to wrap things up). You can print out the pages that follow (pages 7 – 13) and have your students paste the artwork that goes with each art movement. Name: ___________________________ Modern Art Movements Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s. It includes a wide range of styles. Usually, it is a term used for art that has thrown off traditions of the past in a spirit of experimentation… with color, technique, themes and so forth. Impressionism This group of artists captured a moment in time, often capturing the way sunlight, color and shadow appeared in every-day events. They used more color and often used lots of paint to show movement in their paintings. Instead of using broad strokes, they applied small touches of bright color. Some of the greatest impressionist artists were Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre Auguste Renoir. Neo-Impressionism The Neo-Impressionists were a group within the impressionists who experiments with a new technique. Instead of mixing colors on the palette or on the canvas, they placed small dots side by side. They relied on the viewer’s eye to blend colors. These artists were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and seashores. Some of the artists that experimented with this technique included Seurat and Signac. Others included Henri- Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Maximilien Luce, Théo Van Rysselberghe, and, for a time, the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. ©homeschoolden.com Post-Impressionism This is a very broad term used to discuss art in the 1880s and early 20th century. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. This movement emphasized abstract qualities or symbolic content – so it encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne (known as father of Post-impressionism), Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau and Georges Seurat, who we read about above and is sometimes referred to as a Neo- Impressionist. Fauvism Fauvism is a a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color. They used bright color aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas. This term means “wild beast” in French and was first used by a well-known art critic of the time. The small group of artists he was criticizing used this term to celebrate their unique style The leader of the group was Henri Matisse. Other Fauvists included André Derain, who had attended school with Matisse in 1898–99, and Maurice de Vlaminck, who was Derain’s friend. ©homeschoolden.com Expressionism Expressionism is not limited to art and painting, the style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music. Expressionist artists express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism emerged as widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality. Artists used distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. Expressionism appeared in different artwork across Europe, especially during the period 1905 to 1920. Artists expressed themselves with strong color and distorted figures to explore themes of belonging and alienation. Expressionism was inspired most heavily by the Symbolist currents in late-19th-century art. Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor and included artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele of Austria, Georges Rouault and Chaim Soutine in France, the painter Max Beckmann, the graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz, and the sculptors Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck of Germany. Cubism The first Cubist exhibition took place in 1911. It was started by Picasso and Bruque. It was inspired by Cezanne’s use of multiple viewpoints in a single painting. Cubist artists used geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage. ©homeschoolden.com Other Art Movements: Futurism Neo-Plasticism Surrealism Dadaism Abstract Expressionism Suprematism Pop Art Constructivism Op Art ©homeschoolden.com Cut & Paste Directions: Cut out the picture groups below along the dotted lines. Glue these examples onto the notebook pages on the previous 3 pages. ©homeschoolden.com ©homeschoolden.com ©homeschoolden.com In this unit, we borrowed a lot of books from the library. The series by Mike Venezia is fabulous!! We read them (more or less) in chronological order and/or in the order that the artists knew each other.