Movimientos Literarios

ART HISTORY ISMS

Name Characteristics Leading Members Examples

Romanticism Total eclecticism ( mixing of different styles)

In architecture they accepted de Medieval forms (Gothic, Islamic and Byzantine) Eugene Delacroix

Realism Appear at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Shows scenes from the present everyday life. Goya

Gustave Courbet The third of May

Artist Studio

Impressionism Characterized by the way of seeing and attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, strokes of color.

Subject matter: landscapes, life in the Parisian cafes and theaters.

They like to paint outside. Manet: He was the first of the Impressionist painters.

Monet: He was fascinated with the effects of light.

Renoir

Degas: His favorite technique was pastel.

Favorite subject matter, ballet dancers and woman bathing

Rodin (sculptor)

He leaves a rough texture in his works. Luncheon Grass

A Bar at the Follies Bergere.

Impression Sunrise

Le Mouline de la Galette

Ballet Rehearsal

The Thinker

Post-Impressionism They went beyond the impressionist painters. They introduced “exotic” subject matters. Paul Cezanne: He believe that the forms of nature came from the “Solidos Platónicos”

Vincent Van Gogh: His favorite color was yellow.

Gaugin: He like to paint native people.

Still life with peppermint bottle.

Starry night

Night café.

On the Beach.

Non-Objective art Kandinsky

• Improvisation 30

Fauvism • The "wild Beasts"

• Characterized by strong color and powerful brush strokes.

• Their work tended to be joyful. Henry Matisse • Red Room

Dada • Began in Zurich and N.Y after de IWW.

• Intended to shock people.

• Used non traditional techniques

• Many works were ephemeral. Marcel Duchamp

Motion Art. • L.H.O.O.Q.

• Bicycle wheel

• Nude descending the stairs. (Futurism)

Name Characteristics Leading Members Examples

Cubism • Got the name by a painting by Braque called "Little cubes".

• Adopted Cezzane's suggestion that artists use the simple forms of cylinder, sphere and cones to represent nature in art.

• Each object can be depicted from a shifting point of view as if seen from several different angles at once.

• Analytical Cubism

• Broke down real objects into different parts, and combine the various view into one pictorical whole.

• Synthetic Cubism

• Also knows as collage (paste up)

• Uses ready-made materials such as newspaper. Pablo Picasso

George Braque Ladies of Avignon

Guernica

Three Musicians

The Portuguese

Surrealism • Took ideas from Dada and the writings of Freud.

• Explores the world of the unconscious and subconscious mind. Dalí

Miró

Frida Kalho

Marc Chagall

Chirico • Persistence of Memory

• Temptation of St. Antonio.

• Harlequin carnival

• The two Fridas

• What the water gave me.

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