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ARTS
Quarter 1 – Module 1
MODERN ART MOVEMENT
ARTS
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Modern Art Movement

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GRADE 10 ARTS 1ST QUARTER MODULE 1 – WEEK 1
MODERN ART

In all of human history, art has mirrored life in the community, society, and the
world in all its colors, lines, shapes, and forms. The same has been true in the last two
centuries, with world events and global trends being reflected in the art movements.

What I need to know

Hello learner. At the end of this module you will be able to:
1. analyzes art elements and principles in the production of work following a
specific art style from the various art movements (A10EL-Ib-1)
2. identifies distinct characteristics of arts from the various art movements
(A10EL-Ia-2)
3. identifies representative artists and Filipino counterparts from the various art
movements (A10EL-Ia-3)

Vocabulary List
• Art Movements - the collective titles that are given to artworks which share the
same artistic ideals, style, technical approach or timeframe.
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• Impressionism – a style of painting that used a more scientific analysis of color

to capture the effects of light in nature.

• Expressionism - works with more emotional force, rather than with realistic or
natural images; to achieve this, artists distorted outlines, applied strong colors,
and exaggerated forms

• Fauvism– a style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.

• Dadaism - a style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual

tricks and surprises.

• Surrealism - a style that depicted an illogical, subconscious dream world

beyond the logical, conscious, physical one. Its name came from the term “super
realism,” with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though
the artists were dreaming, seeing illusions, or experiencing an altered mental
state.

• Social Realism - expressed the artist’s role in social reform. In different periods
of history, social realists have addressed different issues: war, poverty,
corruption, industrial and environmental hazards, and more—in the hope of
raising people’s awareness and pushing society to seek reforms.

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• Cubism - used exaggeration, distortion, and shock technique of expressionism.
Cubist artworks were, therefore, a play of planes and angles on a flat surface.

• Representational abstractionism - The resulting works ranged from depicting

still- recognizable subjects

• pure abstractionism- no recognizable subject could be discerned.

• Futurism – a style the futurists created art for a fast-paced, machine-propelled

age. They admired the motion, force, speed, and strength of mechanical forms

What I know
Before we proceed with our lesson let’s first check your prior knowledge about
this. All you have to do is to match the picture with the art movement listed below.

Picture Analysis

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A. Impressionism E. Dadaism
B. Expressionism F. Surrealism
C. Cubism G. Pop Art
D. Fauvism J. Post-Impressionism

Time to Read!
MODERN ART MOVEMENT
IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionism was an art movement in France at the end of the 19th century.
The Impressionists were a group of artists renowned for their innovative painting
techniques and approach to using color in art.

The Impressionists were excited by contemporary developments in color theory

which helped their search for a more exact analysis of the effects of color and light in
nature. They abandoned the conventional idea that the shadow of an object was made

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up from its color with some brown or black added. Instead, they enriched their colors
with the idea that the shadow of an object is broken up with dashes of its
complementary color. The Impressionists sought to capture the atmosphere of a
particular time of day or the effects of different weather conditions on the landscape.

IMPRESSIONIST ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS

Edouard Manet(1832-1883) an artist to depict modern-life subjects. He was a key figure in

the transition from realism to impressionism, with a number of his works considered as
marking the birth of modern art.

Agenteuil The Barat the Folies-Bergere

Edouard Manet, 1874 Edouard Manet, 1882
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas

CLAUDEMONET is the best known for landscape paintings, particularly those depicting his
beloved flower gardens and water lily ponds at his home on Giverny

La Promenade Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies

Claude Monet, 1875 Claude Monet,1899
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas

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AUGUSTE RENOIR
His early works were snapshots of real life, full of sparkling color and light. By
the mid-1880s, however, Renoir broke away from the impressionist movement to apply
a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits of actual people and figure paintings.

Luncheon of the Boating Party

AugusteRenoir,1881
A Girl with a Watering Can Oil on canvas
AugusteRenoir,1876
Oil on canvas

Post-Impressionism:
Work of Cezanne and Van Gogh

❖ PAULCEZANNE
A French artist and post-impressionist painter. His work exemplified the transition from
late 19th-century impressionism to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th
century— paving the way for the next revolutionary art movement known as expressionism.

Still Life with Compotier

Paul Cezanne, 1879-1882
Oil on canvass Harlequin
PaulCezanne,1888-1890
Oil on canvass

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VINCENT VAN GOGH
His works were remarkable for their strong, heavy brush strokes,
intense emotions, and colors that appeared to almost pulsate with energy.

StarryNight
StillLife:VasewithFifteenSunflowers VincentvanGogh, 1889
Vincent van Gogh, 1888 Oil on canvass
Oil on canvas

ACTIVITY 1 - Comparative Table – Characteristic of Art movement

This time, let’s distinguish the characteristics of post impressionism from the
earlier post-impressionism. On a whole sheet of paper, copy this table and write your
answers in it.

Impressionism Post-Impressionism
• Cite 2 prominent artists
and distinct characteristics
of their art work
• Technique or style

• 2-3 specific artworks where

these techniques are
prominently seen

EXPRESSIONISM
Expressionist artists created works with more emotional force, rather
than with realistic or natural images. To achieve this, they distorted outlines, applied
strong colors, and exaggerated forms.
Among the various styles that arose within the expressionist art movements
were:
• Neo-primitivism
• Fauvism
• Dadaism

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• Surrealism
• Social realism

Neo-primitivism
It was an art style that incorporated elements from the native arts of the
South Sea Islanders and the wood carvings of African tribes which suddenly became
popular at that time.

Head
Amedeo Modigliani,c.1913
Stone

Yellow Sweater
AmedeoModigliani,1919
Oil on canvas

Fauvism

Fauvism was a style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.

Blue Window Woman with Hat

Henri Matisse,1911 Henri Matisse,1905
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas

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Dadaism
It was a style characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual
tricks and surprises. Although the works appeared playful, the movement arose
from the paint hat a group of European artists felt after the suffering brought by
World War. They chose the child’s term for hobbyhorse, dada, to refer to their new
“non-style.”

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street I and the Village

Giorgio de Chirico, 1914 Marc Chagall, 1911
Oil on canvas Oil on canvas

Surrealism

It was a style that depicted an illogical, subconscious dream world beyond

theological, conscious, physical one. Its name came from the term “super realism,”
with its artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though the artists
were dreaming, seeing illusions, or experiencing an altered mental state.

Persistence of Memory
SalvadorDali,1931
Oil on canvas

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Many surrealist works depicted morbid or gloomy subjects, as in those by Salvador
Dali. Others were quite playful and even humorous, such as those by Paul Klee and
Joan Miro.

Personages with Star

Paul Klee, 1932
Oil on canvas
Diana
Paul Klee, 1932
Oil on wood

Social Realism
The movement known as social realism expressed the artist’s role in social
reform. In different periods of history, social realists have addressed different
issues: war, poverty, corruption, industrial and environmental hazards, and more—
in the hope of raising people’s awareness and pushing society to seek reforms.

Miners’ Wives
Ben Shahn, 1948
Egg tempera on board

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Guernica
PabloPicasso,1937
Oil on canvas

Abstractionism
It made use of the exaggeration, distortion, and shock technique of expressionism. At the
same time, it had elements of the emerging style that would later be known as cubism.

Another group of artistic styles emerged at the same time as the expressionist
movement. It had the same spirit of freedom of expression and openness that characterized
life in the 20th century, but it differed from expressionism in certain ways. This group of
styles was known as abstractionism.

The abstractionist movement arose from the intellectual points of view in the 20th
century. In the world of science, physicists were formulating a new view of the universe,
which resulted in the concepts of space-time and relativity.

In 20th century abstractionism, natural

appearances became unimportant. Artists reduced a
scene into geometrical shapes, patterns, lines, angles,
textures and swirls of color.

Representational abstractionism- There resulting

works ranged from, depicting still-recognizable
subjects (as in the artwork on the left)

pure abstractionism-where no recognizable

subject could be discerned.

Oval Still Life (Le Violon)

Georges Braque, 1914
Oil on canvas

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Cubism

The cubist style derived its name from the cube, a three-dimensional geometric
figure composed of strictly measured lines, planes, and angles. Cubist artworks were,
therefore, a play of planes and angles on a flat surface. Fore most among the cubists
was Spanish painter/sculptor Pablo Picasso.

Three Musicians
Pablo Picasso, 1921
Oil on canvas

Girl Before a Mirror (detail)

Pablo Picasso, 1932
Oil on canvas

Human figures a swell were often represented with facial features and body
parts shown both front ally and from aside angle at once. This gave a sense of
imbalance and misplacement that created immediate visual impact.

Futurism
The movement known as futurism began in Italy in the early 1900s. As the name
implies, the futurists created art for a fast-paced, machine propelled age. They admired the
motion, force, speed, and strength of mechanical forms—as can be seen in the works of
Italian painter Gino Severini

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Armored Train
Gino Severini, 1915
Oil on canvas

Mechanical style

As a result of the futurist movement, what became known as the mechanical

style emerged. In this style, basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders
all fit together precisely and neatly in their appointed places.

This can be seen in the works

of Fernand Léger. Mechanical
parts such as crank shafts,
cylinder blocks, and pistons are
brightened only by the use of
primary colors. Otherwise, they
are lifeless. Even human figures
are mere outlines, rendered
purposely without expression.

The City
Fernand Léger, 1919
Oil on canvas

Non-objectivism

The logical geometrical conclusion of abstractionism came in the style known as

non-objectivism. From the very term “non-object,” works in this style did not make use of
figures or even representations of figures.

Lines, shapes, and colors were used in a cool, impersonal approach that aimed for

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balance, unity, and stability. Colors were mainly black, white, and the primaries (red, yellow,
and blue). For most among the non-objectivists was Dutch painter Piet Mondrian

New York City

Piet Mondrian, 1942
Oil on canvas

ACTIVITY 2 – Expressionism vs Abstractionism

On a whole sheet of paper, copy this table and write your answers in it.

Expressionism Abstractionism

How the different elements and

principles were used by the artists

Qualities of an expressionism and

abstractionism art work

Describe the following style • Neo-primitivism • Futurism

• Fauvism • Mechanical
• Dadaism Style
• Surrealism • Non-
• Social Realism objectivism
• Cubism
2-3 artists and give one of their
famous artworks

Which among of the following forms

of expressionism and
abstractionism appeals to you the
most? And which does not appeal
to you at all? Explain your point of
view.

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ACTIVITY – Let’s Go Local!
Let’s identify the art movement of some art works of Filipino artists.
Choose the art movement listed below. Use your activity notebook in answering.

Impressionism Expressionism Social Realism

Cubism Neo-primitivism

1. 2.

Fernando Amorsolo Benedicto Cabrera

3. 4.

José Joya Vicente Manansala

5.

Gino Severini

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Practice Makes Perfect

To help you understand the revolutionary technique for applying introduced

by the impressionism, expressionism and abstractionism in the painting, do an experiment
with this simplified process:

PRACTICE TASK 1 –PAINT ME – For Impressionism

Paint or draw a boy or a girl as your subject. Color your painting or drawing
with primary and secondary colors.

PRACTICE TASK 2 – Create a work of “Social Realism” – For Expressionism

1. Choose a current issue in society that you feel needs to be addressed.

2. Select art materials that are readily available, such as one whole sheet
of cartolina; acrylic paints, poster paints, or any available paints;
markers, crayons, pastels, or colored pencils; #8brush; scissors; glue or
paste; and pictures from magazines, newspapers, or calendars.
3. Plan how to use these materials to express your message about your
chosen social issue.
4. Give your artwork a title.
5. Present your finished artwork to your teacher during your meeting.

PRACTICE TASK 3 – Create a “Picasso” - For Abstractionism

1. Review the description of Picasso’s cubist style.

2. Based on this, plan and create a cubist artwork.
3. Prepare a magazine, assorted photographs, 1 sheet of oslo paper, scissors, and
glue or paste.
4. Select a large photograph from the magazine and/ or the other photos, and cut
these up into segments of different shapes and sizes.
5. Glue or paste these garments on the oslo paper in a creative way, but with the
image still recognizable.
6. Give your cubist artwork a title.
7. Display for exhibition.

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POST-TEST

1. For each Element of art above, cite one sample work by an impressionist or post-
impressionist painter and briefly describe how this element was applied in a new way. You
may use the following sample format:

Example

Element: Line

Name o f artist : __________________________________________

Title of work: : __________________________________________
How the element was applied: ____________________________________

2. For each Principles of Art above, cite one sample work by an impressionist or
post-impressionist painter and briefly describe how this principle was applied in a
new way. You may use the following

Principle: Rhythm/Movement

Name of artist : __________________________________________

Title of work :______________________________________________
How the principle was applied: ____________ _______________________

3 – 5) Identify the art movement of the following pictures

3. 4.

5.

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ANSWER KEY

POST-TEST

3. Cubism
4. Impressionism
5. Abstractionism

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