9 artists Esenciais da Arte Moderna

Modern Art is not given to a type of artistic expression that happened to be in the transition from the XIX century to the XX century and that reflects the great transformations that occurred in the period.

This way of making revolutionary art turned into a European cultural dinner, becoming also undertaken in other countries, such as Brazil.

There are various artists who will contribute both to the consolidation of modernism in art and to the prevalence of the twentieth century, when it gives rise to so-called contemporary art.

1. Édouard Manet (1832-83)

Manet is a French artist of extreme importance for modern art, because he can be considered the creator of a new style of painting, or Impressionism, that would go on to revolutionize art.

He caused a certain scandal in his time of year when he portrayed dinners and people in a way that was very different from what was feito, valuing the effects and otic distortions erect in location or free. The artist was not guided by the shading techniques in the academies.

In 1863 he introduced some fabrics in an important exhibition in Paris, but his work was re-shot and ended up integrating a parallel exhibition that was called “Salão dos Recusados”.

It is worth mentioning that impressionists do not exactly seek a break from our traditional painting standards, and we continue to seek a representation similar to reality. In the meantime, they will contribute greatly to the consolidation of modern art in Europe, just as they are not aware of it.

Assim, to the relevance of Manet for an innovative thought that refers to artistic practice, it can be summarized by the fault of the American critic and researcher Clement Greenberg:

Manet's canvases become the first modernist paintings in virtue of frankness as to which they declared to be flat surfaces on which they were painted.

2. Paul Cézzane (1839-1906)

Another artist who stood out as a pioneer in modernist art and was the contemporary of Manet and Paul Cézanne.

The Dutch have a financial situation and can be dedicated to various questions that are presented as problems to be solved in painting. This is because he did not depend on success for his sustenance, or that he had more freedom of creation.

His main concern was to try to find a balance between a cor, composition and forms, but not for a momentary way like impressionists, and simulating to capture the essence of nature.

For isso, he used geometric elements (such as cylinders) and not as a principle to remain faithful to the two contours, subverting them as well as necessary.

For these reasons, such an artist is often seen as a kind of "mentor" of modern art.

3. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

O Dutch Vincent van Gogh was a painter extremely dedicated to his art. Even with a relatively short time of production - around ten years - he produced intensively, he could find an activity to appease his mind in conflict.

His work presents an innovative force and expressivity for his tempo, and probably for that reason The artist has not been able to achieve financial stability, depending on the help of his / her irmão for his / her livelihood.

Van Gogh's creative process was inspired by Impressionist ideas, but was also added to add a strong emotional charge. For this reason, he is considered an artist of post-impressionism and became a reference for painters of the next generation that started the movement of avant-garde expressionism.

His way of raising the images was quite particular, or that we can see from his own words, in a letter addressed to Irmão Theo:

As emotions are sometimes so intense that I work, I am aware of being working (...) the brushstrokes see me as a sequence and coerência, as words in a mistake or in a letter.

To know more about the artist, read: Van Gogh: fundamental works and biography.

4. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Picasso was dúvida, two modernist artists of the highest standing in the history of art. His production reveals intelligence and inventiveness, the fruit of inspiration for other artists, such as Paul Cézanne and of references in distant cultures, such as African.

Picasso was responsible, together with Georges Braque, for the creation of a new style, which he called Cubism. Nela, the figures are portrayed in a way to subvert the world, this is the case purposely, in order to create a new reality.

Or cubism abuses geometric figures, in such a way as to think about representation not just what is seen by um only angle, but tempting to "open" objects to two-dimensional surfaces, as a "quarta dimension ”.

Assim, or painter turned into an icon of European vanguard and a great reference of artistic rupture.

Leia: Essence works to understand Pablo Picasso.

5. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Or Russian Wassily Kandinsky is known as a western painter who made the first abstract work of art, or even, that presents elements that are connected to the real world.

Strongly inspired by music, Kandinsky's idea was to translate into cores, forms and lines of feelings and emotions.

He was an important artist, pois trouxe a nova maneira de criação, completely abolishing or committing to figurative representation. For isso, or movement, it is also known as art “not figurative”, or “not objective”.

Kandinsky valued the creative freedom, the intuition and the expression of interior living, the psychological field.

Furthermore, other artists also began to create abstract works, such as, for example, Piet Mondrian with geometric abstractionism.

6. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Marcel Duchamp is inserted in the artistic dinner as a used and creative figure at the beginning of the 20th century.

The modern artist is associated with Dadaism, a movement that sought to show the dissatisfactions and contradictions of the First World War period.

Or that Duchamp proposed was a rebellious and irreverent attitude that sought to question the limits of art itself.

For isso, or artist, you used some unusual resources, like you chamados "ready mades”, Industrialized objects. Placed in an artistic context, they will acquire new senses, or melhor, we will lose your original senses and proposals.

Also, Duchamp was essential for a reflection on what is considered art, paving the way for future artists to deepen these questions.

7. Anita Malfatti (1889-1964)

When it fails in modern art in Brazil, the first two notable names that we can cite is Anita Mafatti.

A paulistana artist has enormous importance, because she has produced modern art before the same week of 22. This is an event considered "water divider" in the national culture and officially marks the beginning of modernism in Brazil.

O fato is that Anita had artistic training in Europe between 1912 and 1914, developing her skills and being very influenced by the avant-garde.

Assim, in 1917, to carry out an individual exhibition in São Paulo, a modernist painter was received by the public and critics. This is because she presented paintings with very marked modern characteristics, such as the use of colors that did not correspond to reality, deformations and contrasting traces.

8. Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1972)

Tarsila do Amaral is another essential woman not Brazilian modernism. Despite not having participated in the Modern Art Week, the artist has seen a significant piece of work. the period and contributed to the creation of the Anthropophagic movement, together with Oswald de Andrade and Raul Boop.

Such a movement, which has as its motto "Only anthropophagy unites us", arises as a proposition for the creation of an art aligned with modernist parameters, more with a strong Brazilian load. A concern should be like national issues and interests.

Its produção tinha as fundamental elements to valorization of the Brazilian povo, the deformations of figures and in some surrealist inspired fabrics, as in the case of O ovo, 1928.

9. Cândido Portinari (1903-1962)

Cândido Portinari was a Brazilian painter who was very much aligned with the modernist ideas preached by Mario de Andrade and Oswald de Andrade.

His career was built in a way to highlight the human types present in Brazil, from rural workers to children, also exhibiting dinners of popular festivals.

Portinari uses two aesthetic elements from European avant-garde as the objective of creating something new and genuinely Brazilian. Assim, under the influence of Pablo Picasso, for example, is implicit in some of his works that I show a dark use of cor, or exaggeration in expressing two people and the deformations of figures.

Example of these characteristics of a famous work The retirees, made in 1944.

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