Barbara Cummings

Modernism

Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay

During the 19th and  first half of the 20th century  20th revolution isms was on the minds of many artists  in the western art movement  known as dadaism post-impressionism, futurism, cubism,  constructivism, surrealism, “impressionism,fauvism,  abstract expressionism, expressionism, which is known as as modernism which gave the world another way to see art. (Guerrilla Girls 59)

For example Color Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, is an modern artist who is currently has her art work in  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.  When you enter the  exhibit, visitors are greeted immediately by one of Delaunay’s quintessential coats, lavishly adorned with wool embroidery.  (7) Throughout the exhibition, black and white photographs are juxtaposed with material culture, textile documents, swatches, and yardage–all printed or painted in the bright colors that pervaded the design and art that Delaunay created throughout her career.  

When one think of the  term "Impressionism" is derived from the title Impression, (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Edward Monet a french painter and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.  Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters, including Édouard Manet and others who would become friends and fellow Impressionists.

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, one of Manet's last paintings
The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet

The most exciting movement that emerged out of the Women’s Liberation Movement, Abstractionism, and Modernism was the Dada Movement. Dadaism emerged in

Europe in the early 20th Century, making its way to New York City by approximately 1915.

http://artsnyou.com/Krishna-The-Perfect-Abstractionism-painting

Abstract Expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term abstract expressionism was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism(6)

Feminist art, a category of art associated firstly with feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s and feminism generally, criticized the traditional gender expectations and the art-history canon, using art to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through a feminist lens. The Feminist art movement emerged in the late 1960s amidst the fervor of anti-war demonstrations as well as civil and queer rights movements. (8)

As artist Suzanne Lacy declared, the goal of Feminist art was to "influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes." Feminist art created opportunities and spaces that previously did not exist for women and minority artists.

http://www.thalo.com/articles/view/835/20th_century_art_movements_cubism

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists toyed with new ways of seeing and had great ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art.

We think of  Modern art  it started with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubists Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Jean Metzinger and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.(3)

Olaf WieghorstIn the mid-20th century, Danish-born horseman and self-taught

20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art. (4)

During  the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.(5)

The Allen Ginsberg Project

[Man Ray, Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg – Photograph by Loomis Dean]

In Dada or Dadaism was a formulation  of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. Dada was not so much a style of art like Cubism and Fauvism; it was more a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto.(3)

Worked Cited

1. Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society, 4th Ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Print.

2. http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/dadaism.htm

3. The Guerilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, London: Penguin, 1998. Print.

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art#cite_note-3

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_Western_painting#cite_note-1

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

7. https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/35350979/

8. http://www.theartstory.org/movement-feminist-art.htm