Early Modern Art Themes in Early Modern Art

Early Modern Art

Themes in Early Modern Art 1. Uncertainty/insecurity. 2. Disillusionment. 3. The subconscious. 4. Overt sexuality. 5. Violence & savagery.

Impressionism Focus was on: 1) Modern Life o Social life o Leisure activities o Urban middle and lower classes 2) Esthetic o Light, color o Unfocused visual experience

Artists • • Edward Manet (1837 - 1883) Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) Pierre- August Renoir (1841 - 1919) Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)

Impressionist Movement • Began in Paris • Artists recorded the leisure activities of Parisians ( concerts, cafes, picnics, beach parties etc. ) • Backdrop was Paris as it had been under Napoleon III (1852 - 1870)

Manet

Post- impressionism • Continuation of Impressionism not a reaction against it • These artists wanted to join impressionism to earlier artistic traditions • More importance is placed on form and structure

Post- impressionist artists - Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) Paul Cezanne Vincent Van Gogh Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

Georges Surat

Paul Guguin

Georges Braque: Violin & Candlestick (1910) CUBISM § The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and reassembled in abstract form. § Cezanne The artist should treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

Cubist Artists • Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) • Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)

Georges Braque: Woman with a Guitar (1913)

Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907)