PostImpressionism,

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Post-Impressionism,
Modernism,
And the weirdo ones!
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Post-impressionism

• A group of artists (with individual styles) that
  followed Impressionists (1910)
• Interest in light color, but a want of more
  substantial subject matters
• Focus on structure form or emotion personal
  expression

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• Shared characteristics
• Heightened, somewhat unrealistic use of color
• Unique brushstrokes
• Rejection or reassertion of 3-D space, order,
  form

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Seurat Sunday Afternoon on Grande Jatte
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Paul Cezanne The Bay From LEstaque
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Cezanne Still Life
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Cezanne Le Chateau Noir
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CezanneModern Olympia
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Vincent van Gogh Starry Night
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Vincent van Gogh Night Cafe
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Van Gogh Self-Portrait
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Van Gogh Sunflowers
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Van Gogh Olive Trees
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Paul Gaugin Vision After the Sermon
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Gauguin Yellow Christ
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Gauguin By the Sea
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Modernism

• Second half of 19th early 20th centuries
• Deliberate departure from tradition
• Uses innovative forms of expression
• Emotions abstraction vs. visual world
• Abstraction non-representational, communicates
  through line, shape, space, color texture
• Tension from 3-D forms on a 2-D canvas

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• Rejection of naturalist color
• Clearly visible brushstrokes chisel marks,
  emphasize physical process
• Line, form, color as valid subjects on their
  own
• Continual questioning of nature in art
• Experimentation with new materials
• Viewer requires more active thoughtful role
  as interpreter

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Post-Impressionism
Expressionism
Symbolism
(Munch)
Fauvism Cubism Dadaism Symbolism Surrealism
Fauvism
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Symbolism

• Inner world of fantasy spirituality vs. visible
  world
• Late 19th early 20th century
• Language art symbolic expressions of inner life
• Art works very mysterious, with great emphasis on
  line color to express ideas

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• Shared characteristics
• Attempt to visually express spiritual occult
• Ambigious meaning
• Subjects of intense religiosity, perverse, death
  disease

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Odilon Redon Untitled
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Redon Crying Spider
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Moreau The Apparition
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Expressionism

• Germany dominated this movement from 1905-25
• Any artistic approach that emphasizes emotions
  responses vs. reality
• Shared characteristics
• Exaggeration for emotional effect
• Intense colors with personal associations
• Spontaneous agitated brushstrokes
• Disjointed space
• Line, form color as subject matter

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Wassily KandinskyImprovisation
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Kandinsky Improvisation No. 30 (Warlike Theme)
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Kirchner Street, Berlin
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Kirchner Self-Portrait as a Soldier
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Munch The Scream
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Munch Self-Portrait between Bed Clock
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Fauvism

• Short lived (1905-08) style meaning wild beasts
  (critics interpretation)
• Liberated color to express emotions
• Shared characteristics
• Vibrant, exaggerated, unnatural colors
• Distorted forms perspectives
• Visible brushstrokes
• Bare canvas as part of composition
• Flat linear patterns

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Raoul Dufy San Georgio a Venise
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Dufy Yellow
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Henri MatisseThe Lived-in Silence of Houses
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Matisse Woman with Hat
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Matisse
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Cubism

• Starts early 20th century in Paris to challenge
  traditional goal or art, 3-D
• Subjects are broken up, analyzed, reassembled
  in abstract manner
• Pure form only from 1907-14, but aspects linger
  into 20th century

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• Shared characteristics
• Fragmented objects shown from multiple views
  simultaneously
• Natural forms reduced to geometric shapes
• Restrained colors
• Minimal detail
• Collage or illusion of collage
• Tension between 3-D space flatness

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Georges Braque Candlestick and Playing Card
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Juan Gris
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Pablo Picasso Two Girls Reading
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Picasso
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Picasso Les Demoiselles dAvignon
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Surrealism

• 1920s 1930s
• Exploration of unconscious imagery (as in dreams)
  free from reason convention
• Huge Freud influence
• Shared characteristics
• Startling contrasts of unrelated objects
• Realistic, detailed scenes that seem dreamlike
• Development of spontaneous painting techniques

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Alberto Giacometti
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Dali Persistence of Memory
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Dali Self-Portrait