Important Art Movements

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Important Art Movements

• Miss McDaniel
• 6th Grade Art
• Introduction to Art

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Art Throughout the Ages
Art is typically broken down into what is known
as art movements. Art movements are a tendency or
style in art with a specific common philosophy or
goal, followed by a group of artists during a
restricted period of time.
There are many different art movements throughout
history, but the most well-known artists
(Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Jackson
Pollock) are typically grouped into only a few of
the most important art movements.
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Important Art Movements

• The Renaissance
• Baroque
• Impressionism
• Fauvism
• Expressionism
• Abstract Expressionism
• Cubism
• Dada
• Surrealism
• Pop Art

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The Renaissance
The humanistic revival of classical art,
architecture, literature, and learning that
originated in Italy in the 14th century and later
spread throughout Europe.

• Occurred in 14th to 15th century
• It was a revival or rebirth of cultural awareness
• Artwork reverted back to Greek Roman Art
• There was an emphasis on science, humans and
  their environment, and philosophy
• Art was realistic and religious in subject matter
  but contained much symbolism

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The Renaissance

• Famous Renaissance Artists
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Michaelangelo
• Raphael

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Baroque
Art used exaggerated motion and clear, easily
interpreted detail to produce drama, tension,
exuberance, and grandeur.

• Occurred in 17th century Italy Europe
• Similar to the Renaissance in subject matter but
  painters put emotion, movement, and contrast into
  works
• More common, every-day scenes not as much
  religious imagery
• Beginnings of chiaroscuro

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Baroque

• Famous Baroque Artists
• Caravaggio

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Impressionism
An attempt to accurately and objectively record
visual reality in terms of transient effects of
light and color

• Occurred in France from 1860s 1880s
• A light, spontaneous manner of painting with
  short, quick brushstrokes
• Painted candid glimpses of subjects showing
  effect of light at different times of day
• The Impressionist style was probably the single
  most successful and identifiable movement ever
  and is still wisely practiced today.

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Impressionism

• Famous Impressionist Artists
• Claude Monet
• Jean Renoir
• Mary Cassatt
• Edgar Degas

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Fauvism
An early-20th-century movement in painting begun
by a group of French artists and marked by the
use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid
colors.

• Occurred in France from 1898-1908
• Means Wild Beast
• Use of intense colors in uncontrolled way it
  is not usually realistic color
• Subject matter mostly realistic it is somewhat
  stylized and simplified, but completely
  abstracted
• Was a substantial influence on some of the
  Expressionists

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Fauvism

• Famous Fauvist Artists
• Henri Matisse
• Paul Gauguin

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Expressionism
A style of art in which the intention is not to
reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to
portray it in such a way as to express the inner
state of the artist

• Occurred in Germany from 1905-1940s
• EMOTIONAL!
• Many different schools or groups of artists for
  this movement (Der Blaue Reiter, Bauhaus)

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Expressionism

• Famous Expressionist Artists
• Edvard Munch
• Kathe Kollwitz

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Abstract Expressionism
A school of painting that flourished after World
War II until the early 1960s, characterized by
the view that art is nonrepresentational and
chiefly improvisational.

• Occurred in New York City from 1946-1960
• Artist expresses himself purely through the use
  of form and color. Fast, spontaneous brushstrokes
• It was non-representational or non-objective art
  which means that there are no actual objects
  represented
• Considered to be the first American artistic
  movement of international importance

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Abstract Expressionism
There were two different groups Action
Painting Stressed the physical action involved
in painting Color Field Painting Primarily
concerned with exploring the effects of pure
color on a canvas
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Abstract Expressionism

• Famous Abstract Expressionist Artists
• Action Painters
• Jackson Pollock
• Color Field Painters
• Willem de Kooning
• Kandinsky
• Rothko

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Cubism
A non-objective school of painting and sculpture
developed in Paris in the early 20th century,
characterized by the reduction and fragmentation
of natural forms into abstract, often geometric
structures usually rendered as a set of discrete
planes.

• Occurred in Europe from 1908-1920
• Was inspired by African art Fauvism
• Subject matter was broken up, analyzed, and
  reassembled in abstract form (broken down into
  basic shapes)
• Essence of an object can only be captured by
  showing it from many perspectives/views at once
• The most influential art movement of recent
  yearsinfluenced almost all art of 20th century

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Cubism

• Famous Cubist Artists
• Pablo Picasso
• Georges Braque

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Dada
A European artistic and literary movement
(1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic
and cultural values by producing works marked by
nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.

• Occurred in Europe from 1916-1924
• Was a protest by a group of European artists
  against World War I, bourgeois society, and the
  conservatism of traditional thought
• It ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional
  art forms
• It included random found objects in sculptures
  and installations
• The artists were mostly trying to make personal
  statements about issues in society or about what
  art is

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Dada

• Famous Dadaist Artists
• Jean Arp
• Marcel Duchamp

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Surrealism
A 20th-century literary and artistic movement
that attempts to express the workings of the
subconscious and is characterized by fantastic
imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject
matter.

• Occurred in Europe from 1924-1950s
• The movement originated in Dada
• Fantastical visual imagery from the subconcious
  mind is used with no intention of making the work
  logically comprehensible
• Mostly realistically drawn/painted, the objects
  are just combined in weird ways or are dream-like
• Influenced by psychoanalytic work of Freud and
  Jung

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Surrealism

• Famous Surrealist Artists
• Salvador Dali
• Rene Magritte
• Max Ernst

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Pop Art
A form of art that depicts objects or scenes from
everyday life and employs techniques of
commercial art and popular illustration.

• Occurred in New York City in the 1960s
• It focused attention on familiar images/objects
  of pop culture
• The interest was in mass media, advertising,
  comics, and consumer products
• Emphasizes flatness and frontal presentation,
  bright and bold colors
• They use mechanical and other deliberately
  inexpressive techniques that imply the removal of
  the artists hand and suggest the depersonalized
  processes of mass production
• It is almost a joke about what we, as a society,
  hold important. So these artists are saying that
  weve made the objects/people so important that
  they are depicted as art.

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Pop Art

• Famous Pop Art Artists
• Andy Warhol
• Roy Lichtenstein