wylie.p5.t6 Modern Era Synthesis

Art is created as a means of expression. While the artistic styles of Rembrandt and Picasso are evidently disparate, the works of each artist convey a reflection of their lives and the time periods in which they lived. The contrasting artistic styles of the two artists represent the change in artistic expression of the eras. During the modern era, traditional forms and structures were broken up and composed using and abstract ideas. Rembrandt’s works are more traditional and realistic whereas Picasso’s work puts tradition aside and embraces experimentation. Rembrandt’s work conveyed intense emotion through realistic portrayal of people and settings. On the other hand, Picasso found a new way to express raw emotion through cubism. By breaking the world into different shapes, Picasso portrayed the distortion of society. Both artists’ works revolve around emotions and the human experience while conveying poignant social statements about society they were a part of.

Modern Synthesis Question Although Rembrandt and Picasso's artistic style are dramatically different, but their social statements can be easily understood even if their artistic styles are at opposite ends. Rembrandt's artistic style are just clear portraits of people. But his style of painting portraits which gives most of his paintings their soft, peaceful, and fluid feeling. Most of Rembrandt's paintings are of people enjoying everyday activities, such as picnicking at a park, although the painting seems like it is depicting the freedom and happy-go-lucky atmosphere, the darker shades of color he used in his painting help bring out the underlying meaning in his work. The lighter colors represent the false atmosphere people bring themselves to believe during war times, and darker shades of color represent the Great War that was going on at that same time, the pain and sacrifices that the soldiers are making while people at home are having fun and laughing. Picasso's cubism is similar to Rembrandt's darker shading in only of expressing the horrors of war. The different between these two artists was that Picasso did not take on the representative approach like what Rembrandt did with his paintings, Picasso used abstract Impressionism instead. He used cubism which was a very blurred style of art as a way to show how war was blurred during times of war. For instance, governments would restrict the pictures and news during World War I in order to prevent the general populace from knowing the true horrors that their soldiers were facing. Rembrandt and Picasso's artistic style of art were and their way of bringing out their hidden meanings were drastically different, but the social statements they wanted to portray were the same. Period 5 team 3 Paulina Alvarez, Emily Teraoka, Angela Oh, Karen Cao

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The modern era, characterized amidst war and hardship was a blank canvas for the pain artists of the day were able to visualize and exemplify. The contrasting artistic styles of Picasso and Rembrandt, two influential and famous artists used their talent to make a statement with their works. While Picasso’s cubic and abstract artwork was a live commentary on his political views, Rembrandt’s more realistic works focused more on historical figures and scenes. Although their styles differed, the two shared a knack for capturing the heart of the people in their art. Both artist’s collections mirror moods, emotions, societal chaos and confusion that lingered among the throngs in their daily lives. Although Rembrandt was alive much earlier than Picasso, the themes depicted in each artist’s work reflects emotions concerning war and destruction that lives from many eras can relate to people of all kinds. This shows us how ideals can be integrated into each and every time period, no matter what time period one lives in, they can experience similar feelings. Themes from Picasso and Rembrandt also crop up in modern literature such as "The Stranger" by Camus, which deals with idealism of nihilism and other philosophies, all contributing to our understanding of the thinking of people in the modern era.

Modern Era Synthesis ( team 5 period 5)

The modern era was a time when a violent war influenced numerous artists to express their desire for change in the world and their opinions of the occurring violence. One such artist was Picasso. Picasso utilized the style of cubism to depict the tragedy going on in the world. In his painting “Guernica”, the style of cubism is both clear, with it’s sharp cut lines that clearly depicts the agony of the people, and abstract because it can show the views of tragedy from different focal points so that all viewer can empathize with at least one aspect of it. Picasso used this painting to bring out the flaws and evil in men out in the open for all to see and acknowledge. Rembrandt’s style showcases the suffering in the Modern era through the emotions depicted in his classic and emotionally intense paintings. His art form was much more traditional and somber compared to Picasso and his cubism. Although they are artists from different eras, both Picasso and Rembrandt’s artistic style reflects the darkness people were suffering under. However, despair is not all they depicted. Both artists show, in their works, an underlying prayer for hope. Hope that people can learn from their mistakes and strive towards a brighter, better future and hopefully not repeat history’s past actions.

Modern Era Synthesis Question-Wylie P6 T6

Modern Era describes the chronological timeline after the Middle Ages. During this time, war and hardship were overflowing ubiquitously. With them came new philosophies and many new great thinkers became activists. Such thinkers were Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Satre, and Albert Camus, known as the “Big Three”. Nihilism comes in various forms, but is always characterized by a contradiction of some commonly established aspect of life, whether it is morality, knowledge, or meaning. Nietzsche is well known for his association with nihilism, a philosophy that holds that life is void of some accepted facet of life, such as meaning or morality. . Nietzsche wrote about moral nihilism in particular; he criticized most of the “moral schemes” of the time period, most notably Christianity. Some writers like Albert Camus, who wrote The Stranger, a story of an existentialist. This novel had a immense illustration of the modern era world.
War and social statuses also led to the artistic movement of cubism. Rembrandt set social statement through his artistic style of emotions and expressions in his paintings. Picasso, on the other hand, depicted human tragedy through cubism. In the cubist artwork, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled, depicting the focus from a multitude of viewpoints instead of one. The darkness of humanity is found in the diverse but parallel styles of Picasso and Rembrandt.

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During the Modern Era of post World War II, New York became the new art capital of the world which formerly was in Paris. In the United States abstract expressionism movement took over displaying defiance, disorder, and individualism. Jackson Pollock defied society with his unique style which led a new type of turn in the art world. He made other forms of art rather than sticking to the easel and paint illustrating to other artists that art is not limited. Further, action painting describes the creativity of painters with different arm movements such as throwing painting splashing paint onto canvas. Action painting mirrored peoples need to try new things in out-of-the-box ways in addition to showing self-expression in whatever manner they pleased rather than the strict regulations that were implemented during World War II. In Europe COBRA, an innovative and unique movement was developed showing bright colors, intense strokes, and contorted displays of man. COBRA art styles were similar to the action painting in the United States. Moreover, pop art was established in Britain using references to culture. Through labels and advertisements it spread quickly contrasting different and sometimes unrelated subjects. The United States quickly adopted pop art often to slyly express irony in romance in everyday products which were mass produced. Artists in the 40’s and 50’s were rebellious and attempted to differentiate themselves from one another rather than the uniformity between artists in past Eras.

MODERN ERA SYNTHESIS

MODERN ERA SYNTHESIS

As our research helped us see the Modern era in a different perspective, we noticed many tactics people used to get their point across. Rembrandt and Picasso used art, as Hitler and MLK used words or actions. During the Modern era people had changed their point of view changed from the Edwardian era to a state of mind on how people should live and have control over themselves. Since in Rembrandt's work he should problems deeply, he gave the world a new look in art. The same goes with Picasso's cubism. Since the Modern era took place in hard time where war was strong and emotional powerful, life was explained through art since television was not so popular. What Rembrandt did with his etchings and paintings are what helped him shape his experiences and the experiences of others. Picasso depended on neutral tones and monochromatic sets which gave him a style that explained tragedies during the era.

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