- 20th century art
20th century art and what it became known as -
Modern art , really began withModernism in the late 19th century. Nineteenth-Century movements ofPost Impressionism andArt Nouveau led to the first Twentieth-Century art movements ofFauvism in France andDie Brücke ("The Bridge"} in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for emotionalExpressionism . Another German grouop wasDer Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), led byKandinsky inMunich , who associated the blue rider image with a spiritual non-figurative mystical art of the future. Kandinsky was a pioneer of abstract (or non-representational) art.Cubism , generated by Picasso rejected the plastic norms of theRenaissance by introducing multiple perspectives into a two-dimensional image.Dadaism , with its most notable exponent,Marcel Duchamp , rejected conventional art styles altogether by exhbiting found objects, notably a urinal.Futurism incorporated the depiction of movement and machine age imagery.Parallel movements in Russia were
Suprematism , whereKasimir Malevich also created non-representational work, notably a black canvas. The Jack of Diamonds group withMikhail Larionov was expressionist in nature.Dadaism evolved into
Surrealism , where the theories of Freudian psychology led to the depiction of the dream and the unconscious in art in work bySalvador Dali . Kandinsky's introduction of non-representational art led to the 1950s American Abstract Expressionist school, includingJackson Pollock , who dripped paint onto the canvas, andMark Rothko , who created large areas of flat colour. This detachment from the world of imagery was directly challenged in the 1960s by thePop Art movement, notablyAndy Warhol , where brash commercial imagery became a Fine Art staple. Warhol also minimised the role of the artist, often employing assistants to make his work and using mechanical means of production, such as silkscreen printing. This marked a change fromModernism toPost-Modernism .Subsequent initiatives towards the end of the century were a paring down of the material of art through
Minimalism and its total rejection withConceptual art , where the idea, not the made object, was seen to be the art. The last decade of the century saw a fusion of earlier ideas in work byJeff Koons , who made large sculptures fromkitsch subjects, and in the UK, theYoung British Artists , where Conceptual Art, Dada and Pop Art ideas led toDamien Hirst 's exhibition of a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine.ee also
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Modernism
*List of modern artists
*Contemporary art
*Postmodern art
*Late Modernism
*Remodernism
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