Modern Art History - 20th century Modern Art Movements

The term Op Art for
this modern art movement arose from
when an article in Time magazine
in 1964 was written about the
contemporary art movement. Time
magazine gave the term 'Op Art'
to paintings that focused on
manipulation of the eye. The modern art
movement that was Op Art became very
popular with intellectuals and
throughout social circles...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement of Dadaism was in its prime
from the period of 1916 to 1920.
Dadaism was about anti art in the sense
of rebelling against the former traditional
ideals of art. The Dada artists, musicians,
poets and performers, many of them
world war 1 veterans had become cynical
of humanity after witnessing the extent
of what man can inflict upon one another
and had become disillusioned by art...

The Modern Art movement of Conceptual
Art was all about free thinking.
An example of conceptual art from the
height of the modern art movement is
Joseph Kosuth's 'One and Three Chairs'.
The exhibit includes a picture of a chair,
enlarged dictionary definition of the word
'chair' and a real chair. The picture
of the chair is the same size as the real
chair. The concept behind the exhibit
is the relationship between...

The Cubist art movement existed for
approximately eighteen years.
Cubism was a breakthrough in art
the concept and ideas that artists
and viewers approached when painting
or viewing art. Cubism inspired a whole
new thought process which lead to
new styles and depth in meaning.
Cubism morphed from Analytical Cubism
from the period of 1910 – 1912 to
Synthetic Cubism which continued...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement of post impressionism started
in the late 19th century and marked
the decline of impressionism. The
contemporary art/ modern art movement
of Post impressionism was an evolution
from impressionism. Post impressionism
attempted to reject impressionism's
inherent limitations. Impressionism
was based on recording effects of
colours and light...

The modern art movement of Pop Art was
a hugely successful modern art movement.
The hight of it's popularity
was during the 1960s was during the 1960s. The champions
of Pop Art were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy
Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. It is
widely thought that Pop Art was a
reaction to abstract expressionism
or it was an evolutionary move from
abstract expressionism. The concept of
Pop Art was parallel to the ideas...

The modern art movement of Futurism
was Italian and founded in 1909 and
started to diminish in 1918 just as
World War 1 was starting. The aim of
Futurism was to object to traditional
conventionalism and to wage war
against the art of the 19th Century.
The 20th Centaury was a new time when
people were starting to prosper,
health and hygiene was getting more
sophisticated and people were...

The Highlighting factor of
De Stijl was the fact that art was
being used to design architecture and
furniture. The founders of De Stijl
were Piet Mondrian, Van Doesburg and
Bart Van Der Leck. De Stijl translates
into English as 'The Style'. There
were three periods of De Stijl: The
Immature period which lasted from 1916
to 1921, the mature period which
lasted from 1921 to 1925 and the...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement, 'Surrealism' was
formed in the mid 1920s. Surrealism
has been described as a way of
expressing the true function of
thought, defying all logic and lies
outside any normal or moral
interpretations of life. For instance
the interpretation of life itself as seen
in Salvador Dali's paintings is that
of the unknown...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement of Fauvism started in 1898.
The modern art movement of Fauvism
was pioneered by artists such as Henri
Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon
Friesz and Andre Dérain. Other
artists linked to the Fauvist modern art
movement included Georges Rouault,
Henri Manguin, Charles Camoin,
Jean Puy, Gustave Moreau, Paul Gauguin
and Paul Sérusier...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement of Abstract Expressionism
was in full flow by 1946. The
pioneers of Abstract Expressionism
were Jackson Pollock and his partner
Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Willem de
Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline,
Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell,
Barnett Newman and Philip Guston. These
artists formed the New York School.
The modern art/contemporary art...

In the early 1900s
artists wanted the freedom to express
emotion through their art. They wanted
to paint their emotional response to
objects and not just what they saw.
The idea behind the modern art/
contemporary art movement of
Expressionismwas that it would be the
vehicle for artists to freely paint
what they felt as opposed to what is
actually there. Abstract art...

The contemporary art/modern art
movement of Minimalism became
largely popular during the 1960s.
Minimalism was a modern art/
contemporary art movement which
could be easily translated into
architecture and furnishing and it was.
The idea results in a fresh
and simplistic article with the
emphasis being on the audience
being able to view the artwork...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement of Impressionism was in
motion in 1867. The idea behind the
contemporary art/modern art movement
of Impressionism was that the artist
would convey, through their art work,
an effect of communicating to the
viewer in a manner that would make
the viewer see an object in the way
that someone would see that object
if they were to glance at it...

The Modern art/contemporary art
movement of Pointillism succeeded
the modern art movement of
Impressionism. Pointillism was a natural
progression from Impressionism as it was
an extension of the idea that the artist
could create a painting which represented
an object image as if you were viewing it
at a glance. The modern art/contemporary
art movement of Pointillism was first
coined as 'Pointillism' in...

The modern art/contemporary art
movement of abstract art started in
the early 20th century. Abstract art
as a modern art movement that is
different to other modern art/
contemporary art movements due to
the fact that it crosses the boundaries
of many modern art/contemporary art
movements. An example of abstract art
crossing the boundaries of other
modern art/contemporary art...