Modern Art Treasure Hunt

By Irina Komarova

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What is your own attitude towards modern art?

For a start do some research about the problem of modern art. Then summarize and explain your research to your groupmates in a brief talk.

1.     What is modern art?

What period of time does modern art include?

Name the important artists who have played a role in the history of modern art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/what-is-modern-art

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/387137/modern-art

http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernart/f/what_is.-Eoj.htm

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/slideshow-top-20-paintings-at-moma

https://understandingpaintings.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/modern-art-not-really-modern/

Look at the timeline which displays the major trends and movements in modern art. Enumerate the movements and styles of modern art.

Also, you can click on any movement for a quick overview. What movement do you like most of all? Why?

http://www.theartstory.org/section_movements_timeline.htm

What paintings of modern art do you know?

Does modern art influence people?

2.     Read the information about modern art in the US. In what century were the American painters active?

Who was a major figure in American Modernism in the 1920s?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_modernism#Visual_arts

What and who began to have a greater impact on American Modernism?

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/american-art.htm#modernism

3.     Study the information about the contemporary art. Answer the questions:

What is contemporary art?

What are the differences between contemporary and modern art?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art

http://arthistory.about.com/od/current_contemporary_art/f/what_is.htm

4.     Is it hard to understand modern art? Express your opinion.

Is it useful to understand it? Why?

Do you agree with the statement?

"To me, an artist is good if they can recreate something that you have to look twice at before knowing it's a painting. It has to be real, and sorry, to me that's the sign of a real artist. I just cannot understand Picasso and modern art at all, a child of five could do most of it."

What do you think about this quote?

“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.”

- Craig Damrauer

5.     The museums of modern art.

Learn the information about the Museum of Modern Art.

Where is the MoMa located?

What does the museum's collection offer?

How many books, exhibition catalogs do the Library's holdings include?

When was the idea of The Museum of Modern Art developed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art

http://www.mmoma.ru/

Would you like to go to this Museum?

What do you want to see there?

Read the list of the Art Museums in The UK and find the museums of modern art.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums/art-museums-in-the-uk.html

      Where are these museums located?