 Identify some of the most popular Western art
movements of the past several centuries
 Chose an inspirational art movement upon which to
base a dream room design
 Use design features in the dream room that reflect
characteristics of chosen art movement
 Definition- A group of
artists who agree on
general principles
 Historians and art critics
have categorized artwork
into different “movements”
based on the style and time
period it was created in
 Throughout our history,
artists have come together
and created work that
reflects the time period they
were living in
 Each new art movement was
usually born out of a revolt of
previous movements and
ideas. Artists were always
pushing the boundaries of
what was considered
acceptable. They were
always rebellious!
 Analogy: Art Movements are
like styles and trends in
fashion
 Every few years, people rebel
against the norm, and new
trends emerge that remain
grounded in a certain time
period
 However, multiple styles can
exist at once (i.e. punk,
preppy, hipster, classic, etc.)
 Started in France and
Britain
 It’s an emotional style
that is individualistic,
beautiful, exotic, and
emotionally wrought
 Artists: Francisco Goya,
William Blake, JMW
Turner, Eugene Delacroix
 Started in America in the
Hudson River Valley
 Landscape painters were
influenced by
Romanticism
 Artists: Thomas Cole,
Charles Baker, Albert
Bierstadt
 Began in France as a revolt
against the exotic subject
matter and exaggerated
emotionalism and drama of
the Romantic movement
 Artists sought to portray
real and typical
contemporary people and
situations with truth and
accuracy
 Artists: Gustave Courbet,
Jean-Francois Millet,
Edouard Manet
 Began in Paris
 Paintings of outdoors
scenes had loose brush
strokes and bright colors
 Artists: Claude Monet,
Camille Pissarro, PierreAuguste Renoir, Edgar
Degas,
John Singer Sargent
 French artists extended
Impressionism while
rejecting its limitations
 Used vivid colors and brush
strokes, but distorted form
for expressive effect, and
used unnatural or arbitrary
colors
 Artists: Georges Seurat,
Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van
Gogh, Henri de ToulouseLautrec, Paul Gauguin
 Began in Germany at the
turn of the 20th century
 The artist evoked emotion
through distortion,
exaggeration, primitivism,
fantasy, and nonnaturalistic and exuberant
colors
 Artists: Henri Matisse,
Edvard Munch, Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner, Amedeo
Modigliani, Max Beckmann
 Took Europe by storm at
the turn of the century
 As a rejection of all
previous traditions, art is
broken down into its
most simple elements
(line, shape, space, etc.)
 Artists: Piet Mondrian,
Mark Rothko
 Began in Paris by Picasso
and Braque
 Cubists broke from
centuries of tradition in
their paintings by
rejecting the single
viewpoint
 Artists: Georges Braque,
Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris,
Paul Klee, Marc Chagall,
Marcel Duchamp
 Began in Italy
 Glorified themes in
painting and sculpture
associated with the future,
including speed,
technology, youth and
violence, and objects such
as the car, the airplane, and
the industrial city
 Artists: Giacomo Balla,
Umberto Boccioni
 Began in Paris, and
emerged from Dadaism
 Dedicated to expressing the
imagination as revealed in
dreams, artists painted
unnerving, illogical scenes
and created strange
creatures from everyday
objects
 Artists: Salvador Dali, Rene
Magritte, Max Earnst, MC
Escher, Frida Kahlo
 Also known as the “New
Negro Movement,” began
in Harlem, NY
 An African-American
movement depicting
daily life in Harlem
 Artists: Jacob Lawrence,
Romare Bearden
 Started in NY, post WWII
 Aimed at subjective
emotional expression with
a particular emphasis on
the creative spontaneous
act (like action painting)
 Artists: Wassily Kandinsky,
Jackson Pollock, Willem De
Kooning, Francis Bacon
 Started Britain in the 1950s,
and the U.S. in the 1960s
 Mocks popular culture by
using everyday items, like
Campbell’s Soup Cans and
advertisements in artwork
 Artists: Roy Lichtenstein,
Andy Warhol, Claus
Oldenburg
 Began in different places
when certain artists
started experimenting
with illusions
 Called “Optical” Art, this
genre makes use of
optical illusions in
artwork
 Artists: Bridget Riley,
Victor Vasarely
 Born out of cultural
revolutions in the 1960s
worldwide
 It’s a rejection of the norm; a
more eclectic and populist
approach to creativity.
ANYTHING can be considered
‘art’
 Artists: Keith Haring,
Fernando Botero, Damien
Hirst, Kara Walker, Jasper
Johns
 These were just the most well-
known Western Art
Movements from 1800-Present
 Other cultures have their own
history of art creation (Folk
Art, African Art, Japanese Art,
Aboriginal Art, etc.)
 You may choose to research
one non-Western Art
movement, if you feel strongly
about doing so