SPSU Arts 2001/Art Appreciation/Colebeck, 20th Century Survey- Review Info.
Movement, “ism”
Post-Impressionism
Fauvism
Cubism
Major Artist(s)
Cézanne
Matisse
Picasso, Braque
characteristics
geometric forms
non-natural colors
break apart, angular
German Expressionism
The Bridge
The Blue Rider
Kirshner
Marc, Kandinski
angular like woodblocks
blue colors
Other
“father of modern art”
“Wild Beasts”
analytic-geometrical, reduce
Synthetic-other materials
express feelings
raw direct style
feelings through color
Futurism
Balla
depict movement
machine imagery
Dada
Duchamp
real objects as art
illogical, based on ideas
Surrealism
Naturalistic
Organic
Dali, Magritte
Miro’
melted, unrealistic forms
organic, freeform shapes
incongruent/dream imagery
recognizable out of context
amorphic, ambiguous space
American Modernism
Regionalism 1920’s-30’sBenton, Wood, Curry, stylized realism
Am. Realism
Hopper
empty, lonely realism
American heartland
form more than subject
Simplicity of design
Abstract Expressionism
emphasis on brush gesture
1st painting style originating in America
Action Painters
Pollock
drip painting
influenced by automatism
[Emphasis on creative “act’ of expression, not the result]
-unchecked self-expression
Abstract Expressionist DeKooning
abstract but retained recognizable imagery
Rothco
abstract images
rectangular areas
Frankenthaller
stained canvas
large areas of color, large ptgs
Pop Art
Warhol
(reaction against Ab. Exp) Lichtenstein
objects from popular culture/machine made items
comic book images
bubbles for words
Op Art
Vasarelli, Rieley
manipulates line & color
optical illusions
Minimalism
Judd
usually sculptural
very simple forms,shapes
Color Field Painting
Noland, Stella
Noland –“bulls eye”
Stella- shaped canvas
Photo Realism
Close, Estes
Post Modernism
Venturi, architect
looks like a photograph
ultra real looking but a ptg.
[Usually no narrative significance (does not tell a story)]
1970’s-1980’s, some 1990’s many approaches and styles
Feminist Art
Chicago
1970’s-1990’s
female artists & themes
Earthworks. Site specific
Christo
Smithson
“wrapping”, instillations
Spiral Jetty
drama & art combined
limited time, environmental
designed for a particular spot
one time or limited time
Finster
untrained, found objects
many Southern artists
Performance Art
Folk Art