Monday, August 31, 2009

FA331 - Homework (Examples of Modernism)

Here are 1-2 samples of Modernism in art, broken down by style. Click on any image to view it in full size.


Formalism / Structuralism:


Composition #10
by Piet Mondrian (1939 - 1942)

Op Art:


Belvedere
by M.C. Escher (1958)


Balcony
by M.C. Escher (1945)


Abstract Expressionism:


The Windows
by John Ferren (1958)

Landscape-Table
by Arshile Gorky (1945)

Precisionism:


Turbine Shafts, Coulee Dam #2
by Ralston Crawford (1971)

Americana
by Charles Sheeler (1931)

Minimalism:


Contingent
by Eva Hesse (1969)


Abstract Painting #34
by Ad Reinhardt (1964)


Futurism:


Battle of Lights, Coney Island
by Joseph Stella (1913 - 1914)

Dynamism of an Automobile
by Luigi Russolo (1912-1913)

Cubism:


Large Nude
by Georges Braque (1908)



Bust of a Woman
by Pablo Picasso (1909)

Expressionism:


Street in Asgardstrand
by Edvard Munch (1902)


Starry Night
by Vincent Van Gogh (1889)

Pictorialism:

Grand Prix at Longchamp, After the Races
by Edward Steichen (1907)


Una Balleteuse
by Robert Demache (1900)

Fauvism:

Le Port d'Anvers (The Port at Antwerp)
by Georges Braque (1906)


Nude in a Wood (Study)
by Henri Matisse (1905)

Symbolism:


Baby
by Gustav Klimt (1917 - 1918)


The Fallen Angel
by Odilon Redon (1905)

Impressionism:

The White Church, Newport

by Frederick Childe Hassam (1901)


Starry Night Over the Rhone, Arles

by Vincent Van Gogh (1888)

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