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Op Art uses shapes, tones and colours to produce illusion.

Modern Art

Modern Art breaks traditional rules and explores new ways to show ideas and everyday life. Discover key features, then test your knowledge in the quiz below.

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Fascinating Fact:

Industrialisation and city life influenced modern subjects, including streets, factories, and modern leisure. New technologies also changed how artists worked.

In KS3 Art and Design, Modern Art helps pupils understand how artists responded to a rapidly changing world. You might study new materials, bolder colour, simplified forms, and experimental techniques. Modern artists often explored movement, feelings, and ideas rather than aiming for perfect realism. Looking at different styles can help you explain how formal elements like line, tone, texture, and composition communicate meaning to an audience.

Key Terms

  • Modernism: A broad movement in art that experiments with new styles and challenges older traditions.
  • Abstraction: Art that reduces or changes what you see, focusing on shapes, colours, and forms instead of realistic detail.
  • Composition: How parts of an artwork are arranged, including the balance, focus, and placement of shapes and space.

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What is Modern Art in KS3?

Modern Art in KS3 refers to art that developed as artists began experimenting with new ideas, materials, and styles. It often focuses on expression and innovation rather than copying reality.

What are common features of Modern Art?

Common features of Modern Art include experimentation, simplified shapes, unusual colour choices, and new techniques. Some modern artworks are abstract, while others show real life in a fresh way.

How is Modern Art different from traditional art?

Traditional art often aims for realistic detail and familiar subjects. Modern Art is more likely to break rules, try new styles, and communicate ideas or emotions using line, colour, and form.

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1 .
Modern Art includes artistic works produced during which period?
1950s to 2000
1860s to the 1970s
1500s to 1800s
1730s to 1990s
Modern artists began to reject the idea that art had to be produced to give instruction or as a commission
2 .
Which of the following artists was not a founder of the movement?
Paul Cézanne
Georges Seurat
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and several others also had considerable influence over the emergence of Modern Art
3 .
What was Fauvism?
Beautifully detailed landscape paintings which sold well
Religious portraits which hung in many churches throughout Europe
Wild and colourful paintings which revolutionised the Paris art world
An art movement devoted to painting only in shades of green
Artists began to move away from traditional outcomes and enjoyed the shock waves their new 'wild' style created
4 .
Which movements were the early pioneers of Modern Art?
The Cubists, Traditionalists and Pointillists
The Romantics, Realists and Impressionists
The Fanatics, Dreamers and Photographers
The Religious, Avoiders and Politicians
Influences on these movements were wide and varied and included Japanese printmaking
5 .
The Impressionists argued that people do not see objects but only the light which they reflect, and therefore painters should paint in natural light. What is this known as?
Avec plaisir
En piscine
En plein air
Bonne chance
Artists still use this phrase today to refer to works which are completed outside in daylight
6 .
Which of the following is not an early 20th century art movement?
Cubism
Fauvism
Futurism
Favouritism
Expressionism was also a major movement in the early part of the 20th century
7 .
Who is largely credited with being instrumental to the beginnings of Surrealism?
Giorgio de Chirico
George Seurat
Ernst Gombrich
Clement Greenberg
Although the movement was officially founded 10 years after Chirico's paintings were noticed by Picasso, he is credited as inspiring the movement
8 .
By the end of the 1970s, art critics responded to the explosion of Modern Art movements by claiming it was the end of what?
The end of painting
The end of the world
The end of sense
The end of art history
It was not, of course, the end of painting but rather the emergence of so many new ways for artists to express themselves
9 .
Which movement is said to come after Modern Art?
More Modern Art
Old-fashioned art
Indian art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art refers to art produced from the 1960s or 70s up to the current day
10 .
What is Op Art?
Art completed in an operating theatre
Art which is connected to an opera
Art which uses shapes, tones and colours to produce illusion
Art which gives the viewer a series of options on how to view it
Op Art often appears to contain moving images, thanks to the way it is constructed
Author:  Angela Smith (Primary School Teacher & KS1 Quiz Writer)
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