How European Modernist Art Differs from European Traditionalist Art

There is a great difference between the European modernists and the traditionalists in terms of ideology, and therefore the way of artistic expression is also very different.

The trends of literature and art, the forms of art, the characters, the inner expression, the way of painting, the method of expression, and the use of materials are all different.

European modernism is the collective name for certain schools of modern art developed in Western countries since the beginning of the twentieth century - Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstraction, Pop Art and so on. There are quite a number of works with fuzzy, deformed, and even absurd, unbelievable, idealistic artistic interest and decadent ideas are relatively strong; of course, more through the creation of the painter's rebellious character, emphasize their own values, the expression of the artist's subjective mind, and create a lot of worthy of reference to the methods of artistic expression and new materials.

The characteristics are:

1. Symbolic.

2. Absurdity.

3. Stream of consciousness.

Masterpieces of European Modernism:

Painted Relief, by Tatlin

Jazz on Broadway, by Mondrian

The Card Player, by Van Dusburgh

Composition 99, by Lissitzky

Painting for the advertisement of Trekhgoraoe beer, by Rodchenko

Head of an Italian Woman, by Pevsner

Evolution, Triptych, by Mondrian

There is no such thing as a European traditionalist, either; the Renaissance was traditional, and modernism is traditional today. Traditional painting is generally the use of perspective, light and dark, three-dimensional, as well as proportions, structure, anatomy and other concepts for the direction of painting, emphasizing the use of color, and comply with the realistic. The main focus is on oil paintings, including figure paintings, landscapes, genre paintings, and still lifes. Figure painting is the most, focusing on the relationship between characters, proportion, perspective, color, and the connotation of the idea is to focus on people.

It is characterized by:

1, focusing on the dignity and value of "human".

2. Depending on the depth of spatial relationships constructed by perspective.

3, focus on "sculpture" in painting.