Art History Review
1906-1921+
Cubism
1850-1880
Realism
1920s
Neoplasticism
1860-1900
Impressionism
1895-1914
1900s
1917-1920
Art Nouveau
Fauvism
Dada
1940’s
Abstract
Expressionism
Pop art
1950’s
1924
1909-1918+
Surrealism
Futurism
Art History Review
Picasso
Cubism
Millet
Realism
Mondrian
Neoplasticism
Monet
Impressionism
Tiffany
Art Nouveau
Dada
Matisse
Hausmann
Fauvism
Pollock
Abstract
Expressionism
Pop art
Warhol
Magritte
Balla
Surrealism
Futurism
Realists
1850-1880
• Painted life truthfully
• Subjects were ordinary, humble images
• Often painted in studios, posing people
Jean Francois Millet
Impressionism
1860-1900
• emphasizes the changing
qualities of light
• features obvious brush
strokes
• uses points of color to
create the “impression”
of solid color
• depicts ordinary subject
matter
Claude Monet
Art Nouveau (New Art)
1895-1914
World-wide art movement characterized by:
• natural themes -- especially floral
(Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species)
• flowing, curving lines and forms
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useful art designs--furniture, architecture,
jewelry, etc.
By Louis Comfort Tiffany
Fauvists (“Wild Beasts”)
1900’s
• Began painting with color instead of form
• Use color to express feeling instead of show
reality
• Unrealistic color
• Use simplified shapes
• Patterns and repeated shapes
• Contrasting color
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Artist: Henri Matisse
Cubism
(1906-1921+)
• Started by Picasso and Georges Braque (French) to create a “new
way of seeing things”
• Attempted to show multiple viewpoints at once--”Mind’s Eye”
• Used combinations of basic geometric shapes
• Painted pictures that look like fractured glass
• Used bright colors and hard-edged forms to create a flattened
picture
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Neoplasticism: New Plastic Art
1920’s
Art characterized by:
•Abstract instead of realistic images.
•Straight lines and rectangular areas.
•Primary colors or neutral colors such as
black, white and gray
•No symmetry
Piet Mondrian
Trafalgar Square
Komposition
“Dada” Art
1917-1920
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Raoul Hausmann
French for “hobbyhorse”
Anti-art instead of art
A reaction to World War I
Expression of the disorder of the world
Meant to “enrage” instead of “engage”
Collage of unrelated subjects
Photomontage
Works of Hausmann
ABCD 1924
Art Critic
Characteristics of Futurism
• Repetition of lines to create
rhythm
• Use of time lapse photography
to capture the element of time
• Illusion of movement
• Brilliant colors
• Flowing brush strokes
Giacomo Balla
1871-1958
Speed of a Motorcycle
Surrealism
1924• Mixed reality with fantasy
• Placed real objects in
fantasy settings
• Emphasized that art is not
real, but the image of the
real
• Art should be mysterious
Artist: Rene Magritte
Art by Salvador Dali:
Another Surrealist artist
Abstract Expressionism
1940’s “At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to
one American painter after another as an arena in
which to act.
What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an
event.”
~Harold Rosenberg
Abstract Expressionism -- History
•The movement had its roots in cubism and
surrealism.
•Abstract Expressionism started in America after
World War II.
•With the beginning of Abstract Expressionism,
New York replaced Paris as the center of
the art world.
Features of Abstract Expressionism
•Painting abstract images
•Focusing on surface qualities such as brush
strokes and texture
•Using huge canvases
•Embracing accidents as part of the art process
•Glorifying the act of painting
•Attempting to capture pure emotion on canvas
Featured artist: Jackson Pollock
(1912-1956)
In the 1940’s he began to develop his own unique techniques:
•He affixed the canvas to the floor
or wall.
•Paint was poured or dripped on the
canvas.
•Sticks, trowels and knives were
used instead of brushes.
•Sometimes he mixed broken glass
or sand into the paint.
•He wanted an All-over style where
no part of the painting is
emphasized over another.
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…”the painting has a life of its own.
I try to let it come through…”
~Jackson Pollock
POP Art
• Every day objects drawn in bold colorful ways
• Short for Popular Art
• Inspired by comic strips, advertising, and
popular entertainment.
Artist: Andy Warhol
•Born in 1928 with a natural talent for art.
•Studied design and illustration in college.
•Worked in New York City after graduation
doing magazine illustrations, decorating
store windows, designing greeting cards,
record albums, book covers, etc. He even
designed the images used in TV weather
reports.
•Wanted to be famous, so he started his own style of
painting images from everyday life.
•Made a movie once of a man sleeping for 6 hours.
Warhol’s Style
Warhol’s work made people think differently about the common,
every day objects in their lives.
Color Study-- Primary Colors
Red
Blue
Yellow
Color Study--Secondary Colors
Purple
Green
Orange
“Complementary” Colors
Colors OPPOSITE each other on the Color Wheel
Red and Green
Yellow and Purple
Blue and Orange
Warm Colors
Cool Colors
Analogous Colors
Colors next to
each other on the
color wheel.
Monochromatic Colors
One Color with either black or white added to
change the value of the color
Shades of a color
Tints of a color
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