TRENDS & STYLES

TEST!

ANALYSIS

• What: depiction of a pipe with a caption

• How: painting/drawing - figurative - scriptletter - looks like schoolboard

• Why:
  > Modernism: completely new way of creating art - not according to academic rules
  > Surrealism: interbellum - strange combination of realistic objects - inspiration: Freud & dream analysis - René Magritte (Belgium)
  > Link to Dada: coincidence, absurdity
  > Comparison to other modernist styles: figurative, not abstract (like Kandinsky)

ANALYSIS

• What: multiple prints of 50's actress Marily Monroe (bright colours + black/white)

• How: silk screen technique (or copied) - striking, happy colours

• Why:
  > Pop Art (sixties): popular art - topic: popular objects or celebrities become art
  > Link to mass consumerism of sixties (reaction: subculture of hippies)
  > Pop artists like Andy Warhol: art should be accessible and fun
  > Contrast to Abstract Expressionism: Pop Art is figurative and easier to understand -> already referencing to Postmodernism.

ANALYSIS

• What: home design - banister

• How: whiplash curve - strong reference to nature (twigs, leaves, flowers)

• Why:
  > Art Nouveau - around 1900 - new style - connected to atmosphere of that era (inventions, expectations of new century)
  > No reference to past - designers wanted to create something new
  > Inspiration: nature
  > Link to Victorian Style/Arts & Crafts: Art Nouveau was not inspired by past (medieval times