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French Revolution
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Honore Daumier
1808-79
French avant-garde artist -
Jean Francois Millet
1814-75
French avant-garde artist -
Gustave Courbet
1819-77
French Avant-garde artist -
'Liberty Leading the People' Delacroix
Delacroix painted 'Liberty Leading the People' in 1830
Exhibited in the first Salon Exhibition of the new regime (after the French Revolution) which opened in April 1831
WORLD:Subject matter influenced by the French Revolution
Exhibition in the salon, France
ARTWORK:Oil on Canvas
Romantic style typical to the period
Woman leading men
Using the typical 'nude' but in a different context
Dark Rich pigments, patriotic-- French flag stands out, central to the portrait
AUDIENCE: higher class -
Vincent Van Gogh
1853-90
Avant-garde artist -
Impressionism
1867-1886 a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colours in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects.
Prominenet Artists: Edouard Manet, Claude Monet
The Painting: Spring time 1872, oil on canvas,
Height: 50 cm (19.7 in). Width: 65.5 cm (25.8 in). ; Framed H with build-up: 29 9/16 x W: 35 5/8 x D: 5 1/8 in. (75.09 x 90.49 x 13.02 cm) -
Piet Mondrian
1872-1944
Avant-garde artist
One of the 'Dead White Men' -
Post Impressionism
1880-1920 Post-Impressionism is characterized by bright color, sharp, often outlined edges. In pursuit of individual goals, theories, and interests, they don't work or exhibit together.
Prominent Artists: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh
The Painting: Van Gogh 'Starry Night; 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm
Artist: Van Gogh -
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
Avant-garde artist
One of the 'Dead White Men' -
Marcel Duchamp
1887-1968
Avant-garde artist
One of the 'Dead White Men' -
Salvidor Dali
1904-89
Avant-garde artist
One of the 'Dead White Men' -
Fauvism
1905-1908 A style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, esp. the German expressionists. French for "wild beasts"
Prominent Artists: Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Charles Camoin
The Painting: 1905 'Boats at Collioure's Harbor, Andre Derain -
Expressionism
1905-1925 A manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated and colors are intensified for emotive or expressive purposes.
Prominent Artists: Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Oskar Kokoschka
The Painting: 'The Scream' Edvard Munch, 1893 (oil, tempera and pastel on board) -
Cubism
(1907-1921) A style of painting and sculpture developed in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by an emphasis on formal structure, the reduction of natural forms to their geometrical equivalents, and the organization of the planes of a represented object independently of representational requirements.
Prominent Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger
The Painting: Jean Metzinger 'Woman with a Horse' 1912 oil on canvas 162x130cm -
Futurism
An artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909 that violently rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918 but was widely influential, particularly in Russia on figures such as Malevich and Mayakovsky.
Prominent Artists: Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Baldo Savonari
The Painting: 'States of Mind III; Those who stay' Umberto Boccioni, oil on canvas 1911 -
Clement Greenberg
1909-94
Art critic
wrote essay titled 'Avant-garde and kitsch' 1939 -
Suprematism
A geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism.
It consisted of geometrical shapes flatly painted on the pure canvas surface.
Prominent Artists: Kazmir Malevich, Cecil Touchan, Keith Coventry
The Painting: 'FS1987CT03' by Cecil Touchon 12x9 inches collage on paper -
Dada
1916-1922
Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition.
Prominent Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst
The Painting: Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) -
De Stijil (Neo Plasticism)
Started in 1917. Translated from Dutch to mean New Art.
Prominent Artists: Piet Mondrian, Doesburg, Theo van
Gorin, Jean Albert
The Painting: ‘Composition II with Red and Blue’ Mondrian (1927)
Oil on Canvas
40.3 x 32.1 cm -
Surrealism
early 1920's - 1930's
Prominent Artists: Salvidor Dali, Jean (Hans) Arp, Hans Bellmer
The Painting: ’The Persistence of Memory’ Salvador Dali 1931 24 cm × 33 cm
Oil on Canvas -
Andy Warhol
1928-87
Avant-garde artist
One of the 'Dead White Men' -
Museum of Modern Art founded in New York
First modern art museum -
World War 2
1939-45 -
'Avant-garde and Kitsch' written by Clement Greenberg
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Abstract Expressionism
1946-1960’s
A development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative
Prominent Artists: Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, David Smith
The Painting: Jackson Pollock, ‘Autumn Rhythm’ 1950
Enamel on Canvas
105 x 207 in. (266.7 x 525.8 cm) -
Pop Art
Mid 1950’s
Pop-art is images of ordinary objects, mass produced common everyday items that most people like and recognize often represented in bright colours.
Prominent Artists: Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Joe Tilson
The Painting: Gun, 1981
acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen
70 x 90 x 1 1/4 in. (177.8 x 228.6 x 3.2 cm.) -
Op Art
Mid 1960’s
op art includes paintings concerned with surface kinetics. Colors were used in creating visual effects, such as afterimages and trompe-loeil.
Prominent Artists: Victor Vasarely, Milan Dobes, Adolf Fleischmann
The Painting: ‘Zebra’ 1944 Victor Vasarely -
Damien Hirst
1965-
Avant-garde artist
