1. ARTISTICS MOVEMENTS Part 2
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
ARTISTICS MOVEMENTS
Part 2

2. IMPRESSIONISM (19TH CENTURY)
Themes – Fleeting and brief word of a first impression based on light and the sudden moment
Characteristics – Short, choppy, light brushstrokes, and outdoors
Areas of influence – France
Artists – Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cezanne
Word Association –Vibrant, little detail, light, glimpse
Renoir, Two-Sisters

3. Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise

4. Manet, Impressionist Bridge

5. POST IMPRESSIONISM (19TH CENTURY)
Themes – Represented Impressionism, but rejected its limitations
Characteristics – Strong Colors, violation of traditional ideas of perspective
Areas of influence – France
Artists – Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Picasso
Word Association – Depth, structure, pointillism, Cubism, Fauvism (Color)
Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire

6. Main Idea:
Also demonstrates that people are starting to question the traditional "rules of the game" just as they are in psychology (Freud) and physics (Einstein)

7. Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

8. Van Gogh, Starry Night

9. Pablo Picasso, Guernica

10. SURREALISM (LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY)
Themes – Expression of the imagination in dreams, lack of reason
Characteristics –Ideals of Freud and Marx
Areas of influence – Norway, Holland, Spain, Germany, France, Russia
Artists – Dali, Magritte, Delvaux
Word Association – Dreams, subconscious, illogical
Dali

11. Main Idea:
The world in the mid 20th century was one of upheaval and change, but also of new technology and opportunity--this art shows the world as mutable and puzzling

12. Dali, Persistence of Memory

13. Magritte, Golconda

14. DADA (1915 - 1922) Themes – Focus on the Absurd, reaction to WWI
Characteristics –Techniques of accident and chance
Areas of influence – Switzerland, NYC, Paris, Germany
Artists – Duchamp, Arp, Ray
Word Association – Absurd, Illogical
Duchamp

15. Main Idea:
This art shows a fierce rejection of western society and its values, which had brought about WWI

16. EXPRESSIONISM (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
Themes – Indebted to Freud, Analyzing Psyche
Characteristics –Dissonance in color and perspective, messages of anxiety
Areas of influence – Germany, Spain, France, Russia, Holland, Norway
Artists –Munch, Van Gogh
Word Association – Anxiety, Freud, Dark
Munch, the Scream

17. MODERNISM (MID 20TH CENTURY)
Themes – Forces viewers to establish their own meaning
Characteristics –Abstract, absurd, challenges established styles
Artists –Jackson Pollock, Kandinsky, Mondrian
Word Association: Abstract Expressionism
Pollock

18. Main Idea:
Just as existentialism and the theater of the absurd reject any outside creator who imbues the world with meaning, the modern artists forced the viewers to find their own meaning in their interpretation of the artwork

19. Kandinsky

20. Mondrian

21. POST MODERNISM (LATE 20TH CENTURY)
Themes – Destruction of Ideas
Characteristics –Multimedia, sometimes performance art, playful, sometimes offensive, experiences the art
Artists –Lichtenstein, Warhol, Christo
Weiner, “ It's about the gap between words and actions, between objects and the ideas behind them, rather than any effort to bridge the gap by acting or making.”

22. Main Idea:
Just as existentialism and the theater of the absurd reject any outside creator who imbues the world with meaning, the modern artists forced the viewers to find their own meaning in their interpretation of the artwork

23. Lichtenstein

24. Warhol

25. Christo, Umbrellas

26. Performance art, Cottman