A New Era In Art Begins
IMPRESSIONISM Rebellion against tradition - academy and salon** Everyday subjects Study of color and light** Capture the impression of a moment** New approach to subject and style-short, choppy brushstrokes; move away from realism Color Theory
Claude Monet – Grainstacks**
Monet - Rouen Cathedral
Monet - Waterlilies
Monet “The River” “Pave de Chailly”
Monet
Auguste Renoir
Renoir “Girls at Piano” “Girl with Watering Can”
Edgar Degas
Degas
Degas - Bath Series
Mary Cassatt
Camille Pissarro
POST-IMPRESSIONISM Subjects become abstract** Move away from nature as subject Flattened shapes and abstracted subjects that focus more on the formal elements*
Van Gogh**
Gauguin
Toulouse-Lautrec
Cezanne
FAUVISM “Wild Beasts” “Allowed artists to NOT represent the real world by their abstract use of color**
Matisse**
CUBISM Composed of cubes and simplified geometric planes** Showed subjects from all angles on a flat surface**
Pablo Picasso
Picasso**
Georges Braque
Art moves to America
ARMORY SHOW -Organized by the Association of American Painters -Held in New York City’s 68 th Regiment Armory -February Legendary date in the history of American art -Introduced New Yorkers/Americans to Modern Art** -Major catalyst for art and artists in America**
THE ASHCAN SCHOOL -Realistic Art Movement** -Grew out of group of “The 8” who showed together once -Many were newspaper illustrators -Portrayed New York City daily life in the poorer districts -Wanted art to be akin to journalism – to tell the truth *
ROBERT HENRI Cozad** -Son of a Gambling Man – Mari Sandoz -Born Robert Henry Cozad -Grew up in Cozad NE -One of America’s most prominent early painters -Studied in Pennsylvania and Paris -Taught at New York School of Art and Art Students League
Museum of Nebraska Art’s “The Bride” – Portrait of Eulabee Dix Winter in New York City
SURREALISM Art of the subconscious** Realism: Salvador Dali* Abstract: Paul Klee*
Dali – realism**
Klee – abstract**
HITLER’S RISE TO POWER -Censor of art -Artist’s and careers are destroyed -Artists flee to the United States
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM Paint applied freely Shows feelings/emotions in an abstract style
DeKooning**
Wassily Kandinsky
EXPRESSIONISM Communicate strong feelings and moods
Edvard Munch**
Marc Chagall
Franz Marc
FUTURISM A reflection and reaction to technology and motion
Umberto Boccioni**
ABSTRACTION Simplifying or distorting Georgia O’keeffe**
ABSTRACT FORMALISM Formal, crisp, clean edges
Stuart Davis**
Charles DeMuth
ACTION PAINTING Based solely on the action of painting andd the effects created by it
Jackson Pollock**
COLOR FIELD Meditative quality based on color
Mark Rothko**
Helen Frankenthaler
MINIMALISM Reduced to the elements and principles only
Piet Mondrian**
POP ART Art based on popular culture
Lichtenstein
Jasper Johns
Andy Warhol**
Warhol
OP ART Art creating optical illusions Victor Vasarely**
PHOTO REALISM Realism with brutal accuracy
Andrew Wyeth**
CONCEPTUAL ART Concepts/ideas take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns CHRISTO**