VARIOUS ART MOVEMENTS - Artists moved away from

the established practices

Principles of Art and discovered new ways
- Balance - Impressionism in arts is
- Emphasis similar to impressionism in
- Contrast music because they are
- Repetition happening simultaneously
- Unity Characteristics of Impressionism
- Proportion - Uses bright and vibrant
- Variety colors
Modern Art - Capture their images
- Refers to works produce without detail but with bold
during the approximate colors
period 1870-1970 - Applying paint in small
- Rejection of traditional touches of pure color rather
academic art forms than border strokes
- New forms of artistic - Painting out of doors to
experimentation catch a particular fleeting
- Color and Light impression of color and light
- “Everyday subjects” - Everyday subjects
- Painting outdoors - Open composition
- Open Composition Claude Monet (1840-1926)
- Influence of photography - Wasn’t the first to paint this
Various Art Movements in the way, but the first to be
age of “Modern Art” “accepted” and called an
- Impressionism Impressionist
- Expressionism - Most influential figure in the
- Abstractionism moment
- Abstract Expressionism - Main subjects were nature
- Contemporary Arts and landscapes particularly
Impressionism those depicting his beloved
- Art movement that flower gardens and water
emerged in the second half lily ponds at his home in
of the 19th century among a Giverny
group of Paris-based artists - Painted same scenes day
- Characterized by a concern after day to capture
with depicting the visual changing of light weather,
impression of the moment, atmosphere, and the
especially in terms of the changing of seasons
shifting effect of light and
color
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Post-impressionism
- Suggested the details of a - Using geometrical approach
scene through freely - Fragmenting objects and
brushed touches of color, so distorting people’s faces
that his figures softly fuse and body parts
with one another and their - Applying colors that were
surroundings not necessarily realistic or
- Vibrant light and saturated natural
color Characteristics of
- Focused on people in Post-impressionism
intimate and candid - Symbolic and highly
compositions personal meanings
- Females were his primary - Structure, order, and the
subjects optical effects of color
- Later in life he went back to dominated the aesthetic
more traditional style of vision
painting - Relied on the interrelations
of colors and shape to
describe the world
- Focused on abstract form
and pattern in the
application of paint
Paul Cezanna (1839-1906)
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
- French artist and
- One of the first 19th-century
post-impressionist
artists to paint modern life,
- Work exemplified the
and a pivotal figure in the
transition from late 19th
transition from Realism to
century impressionism to a
Impressionism
new and radically different
- Classical artist, but then
world of art in 20th century
‘adopted’ the notions of
impressionism
- Well known for his social
scenes

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

- Post-impressionist from
Netherlands
- Works became the most
recognized in the world
 - Remarkable work with 2. Fauvism
strong, heavy brush strokes, - Artist: Henri Matisse
intense emotions and colors - Known for its vivid,
appeared to almost pulsate non naturalistic, and
energy exuberant paintings
with bold color and
EXPRESSIONISM large brushstrokes
- Overall goal is to
Characteristics of Expressionism express emotion
- Convey emotion and through the color of
meaning rather than reality paints
- Each artist had their own
unique way of “expressing”
their emotions in their art
- The subjects are often
distorted or exaggerated
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- Colors are often vivid and
3. Dadaism
shocking
- Artists: Marc Chagall
Art Movements
and Giorgio de Chirico
1. Neo-Primitivism
- Styles characterized
- Artist: Amedeo
by dream fantasies,
Modigliani
memory images, and
- Art style of combined
visual tricks, and
elements from the
surprises
native arts of the
- Artists turn their
south sea Islanders
backs from using
and the wood
traditional styles in
carvings of African
arts leading to their
Tribes
new style called
- Oval faces and
“non-style”
elongated shapes of
African art in both
sculptures and
paintings
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4. Surrealism
- Artists: Salvador Dali,
Paul Klee, Joan Miro
- Depicts an illogical,
subconscious dream
world
- Appeared morbid or
gloomy subjects
- Clear expression of
departure from reality

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5. Social Realism
- Artists: Ben Shahn
and Pablo Picasso
- Expresses the artists
role in social reform
- Artists used their
works to show protest
against the injustices,
in equality, immorality,
and other concern of
the human condition