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Grade 8-9 20TH CENTURY Art Movements

Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Minimalism were influential 20th century art movements. Fauvism featured bold colors and textures. Cubism combined different views in one picture. Futurism aimed to capture modern dynamism. Dadaism rejected rationality. Surrealism depicted unnerving scenes from the unconscious mind. Abstract Expressionism used gestural brushstrokes. Pop Art drew from popular culture. Conceptual art emphasized ideas over objects. Minimalism utilized simple geometric shapes and colors.

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Grade 8-9 20TH CENTURY Art Movements

Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Minimalism were influential 20th century art movements. Fauvism featured bold colors and textures. Cubism combined different views in one picture. Futurism aimed to capture modern dynamism. Dadaism rejected rationality. Surrealism depicted unnerving scenes from the unconscious mind. Abstract Expressionism used gestural brushstrokes. Pop Art drew from popular culture. Conceptual art emphasized ideas over objects. Minimalism utilized simple geometric shapes and colors.

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20th Century Art Movements

What is an Art Movement?


An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a
group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least,
Some of most influential modern and contemporary art movements and developments of the century
include Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,
Minimalism, Conceptual Art.

Fauvism
Founded: was established towards the beginning of the 1850-1950
Characteristics: Its bold colours, textured brushwork and non-naturalistic depictions
Artist: Henry Matisse Andre Derain and Georges Braque
Fauve means “wild beast”
Cubism
Founded: 1907–1908 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
Characteristics: They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the
same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted. Cubism was also inspired by
African tribal masks which are highly stylised, or non-naturalistic, but nevertheless present a vivid

Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art
the dynamism and energy of the modern world. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth,
violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.

Dadaism -Developed in response to the horrors of WW1 the dada movement rejected reason, rationality, and
order of the emerging capitalist society, instead favoring chaos, nonsense, and anti-bourgeois sentiment.
Surrealism

Founded: cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I

Characteristics: depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind
to express itself. bypass social conventions and education to explore the subconscious. In other
words, beyond reality.
Artists: Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali “Persistence of Time”

Abstract Expressionism
Founded: Founded in the 1940sand 1950s by American painters Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko
Characteristics: The term applied to new forms of abstract art often characterized by gestural brush-
strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.
POP ART
Founded: Emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s
characterized: drawing inspiration from sources in popular culture – television, comic books, magazines,
movies and other various forms of advertising.
Pop Art movement is important because it made art accessible to the masses, not just to the elite.
The artists: Andy Warhol was credited with the discovery of the movement. Robert Rauschenberg
(1925–2008), Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Roy Lichtenstein

CONCEPTUAL ART
 Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the
finished art object.
 It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s. Some works of conceptual art may be constructed by
anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.
 Conceptual artists don't make traditional paintings and sculptures but use whatever techniques are
best for putting across their idea

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MINIMALISM ART

Characteristics: Minimalist art focus more on utilizing monochromatic colors. These are usually only one or
two colors, including a dominant use of blacks and whites. Included are various geometric shapes like squares
and rectangles placed alongside one another in repetitive sequences, which is known as seriality. Uses the
smallest range of material and colours possible and only simple shapes and forms.

Artist:

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