Post Impressionism Cubism Pop Art

We’ve created our letter, now what? Now it’s time to paint! You can choose from 3 Art Movements: Post Impressionism Pop Art Cubism

Cubism CUBISM- Cubism, an abstract movement in art, developed in the early 1900’s, is based on the theory that: Objects should be captured by showing multiple points of view simultaneously. Forms are simplified and broken apart into planes, then reassembled in an abstract form emphasizing geometric shapes. The planes are sometimes tilted by means of shading.

Cubism

does not look like real life Cubism is Abstract. Abstract does not look like real life Self Portrait

Post Impressionism Take a look! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHFAsXYHGA

Post Impressionism Post-Impressionism was a movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. Painters such as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others were artists of this movement. Most of these painters began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based on the objective recording of nature in terms of color and light. The Post-Impressionists rejected this for more ambitious expression with it’s freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with short brushstrokes of broken color.

Seurat Pointillism

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Pop Art Pop Art was a style of modern art in the 1960's that used the imagery of mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture. Andy Warhol

Pop art started with the New York with artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein both of whom drew on popular imagery and were actually part of an international phenomenon. Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture) was a major shift for the direction of modernism. The subject matter became far from traditional "high art" themes. Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Perhaps owing to the incorporation of commercial images, Pop art has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art.  

Roy Lichtenstein

Project Your letter is due Friday, October 20th Paint the sides and the front. The back and the bottom do not need to be painted. Cover the background. You must choose one of the 3 movements. Any subject will do. Do not copy the artwork just the style.