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IMPRESSIONISM

IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism is the name given to a colorful style of painting in France at the end of the 19th century. The Impressionists searched for a more exact analysis of the effects of color and light in nature. capture the atmosphere of a particular time of day or the effects of different weather conditions. They often worked outdoors and applied their paint in small brightly colored strokes which meant sacrificing much of the outline and detail of their subject. Impressionism abandoned the conventional idea that the shadow of an object was made up from its color with some brown or black added. Instead, the Impressionists enriched their colors with the idea that a shadow is broken up with dashes of its complementary color.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight, 1893/4 (oil on canvas)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Bal du moulin de la Galette), Muse d'Orsay, 1876

Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897, the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

POST IMPRESSIONISM

POST IMPRESSIONISM
Post Impressionism was not a particular style of painting. collective title given to the works of a few independent artists at the end of the 19th century. The Post Impressionists rebelled against the limitations of Impressionism to develop a range of personal styles that influenced the development of art in the 20th century. Major artists: Paul Czanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and Georges Seurat. Czanne was an important influence on Picasso and Braque in their development of Cubism. Van Gogh's vigorous and vibrant painting technique was one of the touchstones of both Fauvism and Expressionism.

VINCENT VAN GOGH (185390) Caf Terrace at Night, 1888 (oil on canvas)

Henri Rousseau, Le centanaire de Iindependance, 1892, oil on canvas, 57 cm x 110 cm, Getty Museum in LA

FAUVISM

FAUVISM
Fauvism was a joyful style of painting that delighted in using outrageously bold colors. It was developed in France at the beginning of the 20th century by Henri Matisse and Andr Derain. The artists who painted in this style were known as 'Les Fauves' (the wild beasts), a title that came from a sarcastic remark in a review by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles. 'Les Fauves' believed that color should be used at its highest pitch to express the artist's feelings about a subject, rather than simply to describe what it looks like. Fauvist paintings have two main characteristics: extremely simplified drawing and intensely exaggerated color.

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) The Open Window, Collioure, 1905 (oil on canvas)

Andr Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1906, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupt, 1904, oil on canvas, 98 x 118.5 cm, Muse d'Orsay, Paris, France

EXPRESSIONISM

EXPRESSIONISM

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938) The Red Tower at Halle, 1915 (oil on canvas)

The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893)

Franz Marc, Fighting Forms, 1914.

ABSTRACT ART

ABSTRACT ART
Abstract Art is a generic term that describes two different methods of abstraction: 'semi abstraction' and 'pure abstraction'. The word 'abstract' means to withdraw part of something in order to consider it separately. In Abstract art that 'something' is one or more of the visual elements of a subject: its line, shape, tone, pattern, texture, or form. Semi-Abstraction is where the image still has one foot in representational art, (see Cubism and Futurism). It uses a type of stylisation where the artist selects, develops and refines specific visual elements (e.g. line, color and shape) in order to create a poetic reconstruction or simplified essence of the original subject. Pure Abstraction is where the artist uses visual elements independently as the actual subject of the work itself.

Pablo Picasso, 1913-14, Head (Tte), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Henri Matisse, The Yellow Curtain, 1915.

Wassily Kandinsky, On White 2, 1923

CUBISM

CUBISM
invented around 1907 in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. first abstract style of modern art. ignore the traditions of perspective drawing and show you many views of a subject at one time. The Cubists believed that the traditions of Western art had become exhausted and to revitalize their work, they drew on the expressive energy of art from other cultures, particularly African art. There are two distinct phases of the Cubist style: Analytical Cubism (pre 1912) and Synthetic Cubism (post 1912).

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Ambroise Vollard, 1915 (oil on canvas)

Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Windows on the City, 1912, Hamburger Kunsthalle

DADAISM

DADAISM
art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

Hannah Hch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90144 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

SURREALISM

SURREALISM
cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.

Salvador Dal, The Persistence of Memory (1931), Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan

Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921), Tate, London

ART NOVEAU

ART NOVEAU
is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied artespecially thedecorative artsthat was most popular during 18901910. new art inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment.

Tiffany lamp, Carnegie Museum of Art

The Peacock Skirt, by Aubrey Beardsley, (1892)