The most influential is Pablo Picasso and his paintings. “Les Demoiselles was the precursor of a new style called cubism” (395). Cubism was a new style of modern art. With the spread of technology and finding its’ way into the art realm, it produced a new style art called “Futurism”. Since the Modernism era was about expression away from tradition, this idea was the birth of “expressionism” in art.
Yack defines it as “focusing our attention on what it means to live with the consequences of distinctly modern ideas and practices” (Yack 1997:26). This definition of the modern age doesn’t have the clear starting point of the temporal definition, but it gives a sense of the importance of the types of ideas and practices that make the modern age important. These definitions of the modern age are also problematic, as was the term modernity. For while the modern age may be delineated as occurring after a specific date, not all things that happen after that date are substantively modern.
The French artist, Claude Monet, was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. His parents were Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubree Monet and he was their second son. His dad had hoped that Claude Monet would help work in their family grocery store business, but Monet had much bigger plans for himself; he dreamed to become an artist. At the age of eleven, Monet had began going to Le Havre secondary school. By the age of fifteen he had already become well known as a local caricaturist.
Renoir, in conjunction with his classmates Claude Monet, Sisley, and Bazille established the Impressionist movement. Taking art in an exceedingly new direction, these young artists experimented with new techniques and were thought of as radicals of their time and as a result they burst the foundations of ancient types of painting, and worked outside of the studio. Although Impressionism in France began once many alternative painters were experimenting with plein-air painting, Pierre Auguste Renoir and his peers developed new techniques that outlined the movement; their art was immediate, and it represented movement with sincere compositions and vivid colors. Rejected by the Salon, they displayed their works privately exhibitions and gained support for their distinct, trendy paintings. Their works were simply recognizable by their use of bright colors, visible brush strokes, and stress on light weight.
Claude Monet (also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet) is considered an inspiration to all new and old artists throughout the world. He painted or drew around 2,500 pieces of Impressionism art. He had a plethora of talent which helped him to contribute a few things not only to artists but to anyone who sees his works. Claude Monet was born November 14,1840, on the 5th floor of 45 Laffitte Street in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. His parents were Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, he was their second son.
Cubism was the response for the need to develop and represent the new modern reality. This new-fangled authenticity was intricate and abstruse, designed by innovative fabrications, metaphysical conjecture and cultural assortment. The latest machinery and scientific sightings were fundamentally altering the pace of life, and the society’s approach towards the nature of elements. These philosophical obscurantists stated that we breathe in the domain of fluctuating perspectives, in which the advent of matter is in a steady flux reliant on the point of view. Formally depicting this dynamic vision of life became a barrier for the modern artists.
During the 19th century, the church lost its power and its traditional theme and the rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization led to to the birth of “Isms”. Neoclassicism, a revival of Greek and Roman art; a direct reaction to the excessiveness of Baroque and Rococo styles. During the American and French Revolutions, the political atmosphere began to lean towards an Age of Reason and Enlightenment. With admiration for classical Roman and Greek art renewed after excavations of Herculaneum and Pompei, efforts for style to accompany philosophy caused an inevitable return to the "classics"(AML 68). Early works of artists such as Jean August Dominique Ingres and especially Jacques-Louis David encompassed the thematic elements associated with Neoclassicism.
• Monet sought to capture the essence of the natural light by using strong colours and bold short brushstrokes, he rejected the mixed colours and consistency of classical art. Monet is famous for his “series” of painting where he would paint many paintings at different times of the day in an effort to capture the changing settings of the scene. Monet did not wait for paint to dry before applying more layers because he believed that it was like “nature itself was alive on a canvas”. He used this "wet on wet" technique which created softer edges. Monet focused on the changes that light made on the forms and he tried to capture nature as it seemed to him in that fleeting moment.
Modern art takes the best of artists and their art work and adapts it, adding new techniques and personal styles of each. When one carefully analyzes different pieces of art with openness to emotional impression and introspection it allows appreciation and pleasure towards other artists as well as their works. This paper will provide information on the artist Paul Cézanne and his work The Large Bathers, look into Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. It will also discuss the influence Paul Cézanne had on the aforementioned artists upon producing their masterpieces. Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906, oil on canvas, 210 x 250.8 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Baudelaire’s concept of Modernity through the ephemerality, the flaneur, and transcendence of time can be depicted in his Wores’ painting. Wore’s painting was about the
Paul Cezanne is famous as a post-impressionist artist, as well as the creator of abstract art known as cubism. In contrast, although Auguste Renoir was an artist of the same era, his work has renowned for Impressionism. Ekrisson (2013)reveals that Paul Cezanne was the artist who led the post impressionism,By the way, he used harmonious color, short and repetitive brush strokes, and capacity to give personal expression in paintings .furthermore, Cezanne felt to depict subjects in geometrical forms, in the third
“The Open Window” is an oil painting by Henri Matisse made in the summer of 1905. It is a perfect example of the new art current which inspired French Art at the beginning of the century known as Fauvism. It represents the view from the window of the hotel’s room in Collioure in which the artist stayed. It is a small painting with sizes 55.3 x 46 cm, but it contains explosive and bright colors. Matisse has portrayed the scene in an inviting and light-filled way and with a large variety of tones and colors used to paint the boats floating on the calm sea and the sky during the sunset.
Throughout mankind, the concept of art has developed and changed. We have observed a variety of artistic forms and styles through paintings and sculptures. Numerous amount of cultures and time periods we 're established in history from art. Some include the Greek, Roman, Early Christian, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque time periods of art. During each of those time periods, new artistic styles were created and transformed.
Modern Era The Modern Era is the time period in musical development that began around the turn of the 20th century in which great changes in compositional techniques and styles took place. This era challenged and reinterpreted old styles of music, making it a time of great innovation. Although homophonic textures were used, they were used with less importance and the most dominant texture of the Modern era was contrapuntal texture.
The start of modernism being the Pioneer Phase took place between the middle of the First World War and the crucial movements from 1929 to 1933, early 1930s being know as the International Style. Pioneer Phase is a chain of variations and individuals who took charge to the problems faced when dealing with the appropriate design that would symbolise the twentieth century. They did so by focusing on three core elements of design, architecture, graphics and furniture.(P.Greenhalgh,1990, p. 91) The Pioneer Phase could simply be classified as a collaboration of ideas in which designers envisioned how the world could create a way in which improves the “material conditions” and mould the consciousness of humankind.(P.Greenhalgh,1990, p. 3). Modernism
