Fauve Movement
Intensity and Expressive power through color and strong brushwork
Avant-garde movement
French
Mountains at Collioure
Andre Derain
1905
Collioure, a Mediterranean Port
Explosive color generates energy
Fauve Movement
The Woman with the Hat
Henri Matisse
1905
Non-naturalistic color
Fauve Movement
Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)
Henri Matisse
1905-1906
Landscape depicting golden age
Fauve Movement
Family of Saltimbanques
Pablo Picasso
1905
The Rose Period
Withdrawn and empty feeling
Primitivism
Modern Artists looked to nonwestern cultures for inspiration. Picasso started first at African art.
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)
Pablo Picasso
1907
Influenced by African Art (PRIMITIVISM)
Prostitues in sharp angular shapes
Contradiction of erotic imagery
Cubism
art style
altered forms and compressed space
Violin and Palette
Georges Braque
1909-1910
Violin, Artist Palette, and Sheet Music
CUBISM
Synthetic Cubism
complex compositions by combining and transforming elements
Glass and Bottle of Suze
Pablo Picasso
1912
Pasted Paper, Gouache, and Charcoal
SYNTHETIC CUBISM
Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
Pablo Picasso
1910
Portrait of important art dealer in Paris
CUBISM
Mandolin and Clarinet
Pablo Picasso
1913
Wood Scraps
Synthetic Cubist sculpture
Assemblage
Assemblage
constructing their works out of found objects and unconventional materials
The Bridge Movement
Bridge from traditional to modern painting
expressionistic group
German Artists
Three Nudes- Dune Picture from Nidden
Karl Schmidt-Rottluft
1913
Violent Emotions
Primitivism
The Bridge Movement
Masks
Emil Nolde
1911
Bridge Movement
Street, Berlin
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1913
Expressionistic
urban degeneracy and alienation
The Outbreak
Kathe Kollwitz
1903
Social Change in working class
Independent Expressionist
Self-Portrait with an Amber Necklace
Paula Modersohn-Becker
1906
Independent Expressionist
Woman of sharp intelligence
The Blue Rider
Art group that moved realism to radical abstraction
The Large Blue Horses
Franz Marc (co-founder of blue rider)
1911
Blue color of horses draws them together
sweeping movement
Improvisation 28
Vassily Kandinsky
1912
The Blue Rider
first abstract painting
music compositions
Homage to Bleriot
Robert Delaunay (french)
1914
Fauvist color and cubism celebrating technology
Airplane flying over Eiffel Tower
Three Women
Fernand Leger
1921
colored version of cubism on machine forms
Purism
orderly industrial society
Futurism
technology and speed combined with cubism
started in Italy
Armored Train in Action
Gino Severini
1915
Futurism
concept of war as a social cleansing agent
armored car going on a train over bridge
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
Bronze
1913
Futurism
The Newborn
Constantin Brancusi
Abstract Sculpture
Marble
1915
Head of human infant - humanity at the moment of birth
Dada
Nonsense word meaning "hobby horse" directed towards a movement from 1916-1925. They questioned art itself. Came after World War One and the large slaughter of people.
Known in Zurich, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Also became a magazine in Berlin.
Hugo Ball reciting the sound poem "Karawane
Wearing weird costume
1916
mocked traditional poetry
Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
1917
readymade
what is the essence of art? how much can be stripped away?
readymade
dada style when artists transform already ordinary, manufactured objects into art
L.H.O.O.Q
Marcel Duchamp
1919
modified readymade
degrading Mona Lisa
discust
photomontage
photographic collage
Merzbild 5B
Kurt Schwitters
1919
photomontage
postwar disorder of defeated Germany
An Orchid
Georgia O'Keeffe
1941
feminine and vaginal
sensuality
City Night
Georgia O'Keeffe
1926
exaggerated perspective
sense of menace
Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue
Piet Mondrian
Netherlands
beauty and balance
Surrealism
France, early 1930s
Irrational, disorderly, aberrant, and violent social interventions. Psychology, criminal madness, and the female mind were all studied.
Automatism
surrealist technique that was to release the mind from conscious control and to produce imagery and forms.
Frottage
Automatism, rubbing a pencil or crayon over a piece of paper on a textured surface
Grattage
frottage but with paint
The Horde
Max Ernst
1927
Surrealism
Nightmarish scene shows horrors of WWI
grattage or frottage?
Salvador Dali
1904-1989
Surrealist
paranoid critical method
painted what he imagined
sexuality, violence, purification
Birth of Liquid Desires
Salvador Dali
1931-1932
Nightmares into one
Surrealism - paranoid critical method
Object (Luncheon In Fur)
Meret Oppenheim
Swiss Woman
1936
Surrealist
takes silverware and puts fur on them turning them into a new irrational surreality
Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
Alexander Calder
1939
Biomorphic Abstraction
Surrealism
possibility of lobster or the fish getting caught in the trap
Unit One
British artist movement in the 1930s that was of hand crafted, surrealist-influenced biomorphic forms in sculpture
Forms in Echelon
Barbra Hepworth
1938
two biomorphic wooden shapes
Unit One
let viewers imagine what they pleased
Recumbent Figure
Henry Moore
1938
Hornton Stone
human parts and hilly landscape
Unit One
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
1937
made because of bombing in guernica, spain by the germans and italians
massacre of people and animals
Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction
Aaron Douglass
1934
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
rich artistic period in the 1920s-1930s named after a African American neighborhood in New York City where there is a cultural resurgence by African Americans.
The Migration Series, Panel No.1 : During World War I there was a Great Migration North by Southern African Americans
Jacob Lawrence
1940-1941
Harlem Renaissance
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Dorothea Lange
1936
Depression Art
Poverty
American Gothic
Grant Wood
1930
regionalist painter
pioneer hardihood
The Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo
Mexico
1939
traditional Mexican folk painter
addresses issues of mixed heritage and gender identity
Abaporu (the one who eats)
Tarsila do Armal
1928
Brazil
painter is saying: Brazilians are thought of as cannibals abroad, then let us be cannibals
Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef
Francis Bacon
1940s
Shows terrors of WWII
Painting
Wols (Wolfgang Schulze)
ART INFORMEL
1944-1945
disease ridden and violent world starting from the cells (WWII)
Zambezia Zambezia
Wifredo Lam
Latin America
1950
drama of the country
Abstract Expressionism
Wide range of artists in New York in 1940s-1950s. Show social alienation after WWII and make art that was moral and universal
Formalist
concerning form over content
Garden in Sochi
Arshile Gorky
1943
life forces and ancient connection to the earth
Abstract Expressionist- Formative
Autumn Rhythm
Jackson Pollock
1950
Abstract Expressionism
Action Painting
Photograph of Jackson Pollock Painting
Hans Namuth
1950
The Seasons
Lee Krasner
Abstract Expressionism
Action Painter
bold sweeping springlike colors
Knight Watch
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Canada
Abstract Expressionism
1953
spread with palette knife
Mountains and Sea
Helen Frankenthaler
1952
Action Painting - pictures feeling
coast of Novia Scotia
Lavender and Mulberry
Mark Rothko
1959
Color Field Painting
evoke moods of transcendental meditation
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Barnett Newman
1950-1951
Color Field Painting
absolute red with dangerous zips of other colors to imbalance it
a hero threatened by a fatal flaw