Expressionism
A form of art in which the artist depicts the inner essence of man and projects his view of the world as colored by that essence.
Modernism
A cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement.
Fauvism
1905,Paris. Fauvism was a short-lived movement concerned with the liberation of color and the formal structure of a work of art. Fauve is a title which means "wild beast.
Dadaism
A new artistic development that rejected all accepted standards of art and behavior.
Futurism
1910.A movement in modern art that grew out of cubism. Artists used implied motion by shifting planes and having multiple viewpoints of the subject. They strived to show mechanical as well as natural motion and speed. The beginning of the machine age is w
Cubism
A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes
Abstract Expressionism
An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes.
Impressionism
An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing, 19th century French art style; focused on light and color using short, choppy brush strokes
Post-Impressionism
A late nineteenth-century style that relies on the Impressionist use of color and spontaneous brushwork but that employs these elements as expressive devices.
Feminism
A movement or doctrine that advocates or demands for women the same rights granted men, such as equal economic or political status.
Neo-Classicism
A style of artwork that refrences ancient Greek and Roman art. Emphasis on Englightment, inspired by classical myths, idealized beauty,heavy emphasis on allegory.
Romanticism
19th-century western European artistic and literary movement; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection.
Pop Art
1950's. The subject matter was based on visual cliches, subject matter and impersonal style of popular mass media imagery.
Realism
A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
Minimalism
an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
Conceptualism
a belief that good art is about the idea and the process as opposed to the finished product
Existentialism
A modern European movement on philosophy, religion, and art that asserts "existence precedes essence," that is, that the universe and everything in it exists but has no meaning, and that people supply mean through their actions
Surrealism
An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images
Formalism
Art has to do with formal features like line, color, texture. But hard to know which features are important. EX: Black square
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch postimpressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890). Experimented with sharp brush lines and bright colors: Post-Impressionism
Jackson Pollock
A twentieth-century American painter, famous for creating abstract paintings by dripping or pouring paint on a canvas in complex swirls and spatters: Abstract expressionism
Pablo Picasso
a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes: Cubism
Georges Braque
was a French painter and sculptor who, with Pablo Picasso, developed cubism and became one of the major figures of twentieth-century art: Cubism, Fauvism
Gustave Courbet
French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877): Realism
Claude Monet
a French painter who used a impressionism called "super-realism," capture overall impression of the thing they were painting: Impressionism
Alberto Giacometti
This artist stretched out people to make them look tall and skinny., Swiss born (1901-1966) developed a signature style of sculpture, producing attenuating, solitary skeletal figures, and heads: Expressionism, Surrealism, Cubism
Jacques-Louis David
French painter known for his classicism and his commitment to the ideals of the French Revolution: Neoclassicism
Theodore Gericault
important French painter and lithographer. He was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement: Romanticism
Cindy Sherman
is a feminist artist who addresses the way Western art has presented women for the "male gaze" by her self-portraits in photography. She sees gender as a socially constructed concept and an unstable one: Feminism?
Mark Rothko
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970): Abstract expressionism
Marcel Duchamp
1887 - 1968. France, United States. Painting, sculpture, film: Dada, Surrealism
Andy Warhol
An American commercial illustrator. He was the founder of the pop-art movement: Pop art
Chuck Close
Contemporary artist who produces large scale portraits based on the use of a grid. Highly renowned as a painter he has pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking in remarkable ways: Contemporary art
Le Corbusier
A twentieth-century French architect and city planner known for designing buildings with unusual curves and unconventional shapes.
Henri Matisse
An extreme abstract expressionist, leader of "the beasts," focused on arrangement of color, line and form: Impressionism, Modernism, Fauvism, Neo-impressionism
Vassily Kandinsky
Russian artist who was among the first to eliminate recognizable objects from his paintings. Believed in using rhythmic lines, colors, and shapes rather than narrative. Art w/ a spiritual quality: Expressionism,
Salvador Dali
A Spanish surrealist artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influen
Barbara Hepworth
Sculptor who further simplified the human body: Modernism
A Short History of Modernist Painting* by Mark Tansy
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Armored Train by Gino Serevini
Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow by Piet Mondrian
Die by Tony Smith
Fountain* by Marcel Duchamp
Guernica* by Pablo Picasso
Hopeless by Roy Lichtenstein
Improvisation 28 by Vassily Kandinsky
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso
Lotus table lamp by Louis Comfort Tiffany
Man Pointing by Alberto Giacometti
Migrant Mother Nipomo Valley* by Dorothea Lange
Night Caf� by Vincent Van Gogh
No. 14 by Mark Rothko
Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier
Oath of the Horatii* by Jacques-Louis David
Olympia by Edouard Manet
Oval Sculpture (No. 2) by Barbara Hepworth
Raft of the Medusa* by Theodore Gericault
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun) by Claude Monet
The Dinner Party* by Judy Chicago
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet
The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images by Rene Magritte
Woman with the Hat by Henri Matisse