This comprehensive summary covers major modern art movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. It details each movement’s origins, defining characteristics, and key techniques, including chance art, assemblage, and conceptual imagery. Ideal for students studying th...
Dadaism Surrealism Abstract Expressionism Pop Art
- Grew out of disgust for capitalistic - interested in chance art and the the - Uniquely American movement - Art created in reference to popular
values over WWI. (Nihilistic) absence of logic but more intense - Equally critical and scathing on the culture and aimed to blur the boundaries
- Intended to be confusing, no rules rules, - Objects and scenes are painted traditional art norms of the time though between high and low art culture .
artists given liberty to do whatever they realistically but positioned and depicted not as harshly as Dada - Believed everything is interconnected
wanted. In an irrational manner. - Less about the subject and more about and aimed to make those connections
- Sought to channel the unconscious to the artist literal in their works
- Techniques: happenings, chance art, maximise their imagination (express the - There is no subject matter rather it - Embraced post WW2 manufacturing
assemblage, the ‘ready-made’ functioning of thought) focuses on the formal qualities or art i.e and media boom, bucking traditional art
- Disliked literary realism and rationalism line, shape, colour etc. hierarchies by depicting common
objects in their works
- techniques: action painting (Pollock) and - Elevating the everyday Into high art.
colour !eld painting (Rothko) - Emphasises arts place as a commodity
Man Ray Salvador Dali Mark Rothko Andy Warhol
Le Cadeau The persistence of memory Untitled, black on Grey Campbell’s Soup I (Tomato)
- Thumb tacks are attached to the bottom - Depicts a series of melting clocks and - painting divided into two !elds black on - commercial image of a soup can
of an Iron watches (symbolise mortality) the top and grey on the bottom - only 2 - There’s no reference to paint texture and
- Utilitarian object made to evoke surrounded by swarming ants registers represents object as it is in reality
emotion. - Hints the idea of the the inevitable - Could reference lunar images, and - Emphasising popular imagery as well as
- Tacks cling and hold which contrasts the decay of time and subverts inherent interpretations of moon landscapes providing commentary on how people
iron which is meant to smooth and slide, texture of objects, softening the hard - Isolated felling, a world created and only have come the perceive these images in
when attached they render each other objects such as clocks and vice-versa understood by Rothko himself - last modern times and have become a thing
useless - Strange use of colour series before his death that can be bought and sold
- Scaled down canvas emphasises
intimacy and isolation,
- Contrast of light and dark evoke
sadness/ mythic and tragic
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