Art History Review

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Art History Review
1906-1921 Cubism
1920s Neoplasticism
1850-1880 Realism
1860-1900 Impressionism
1895-1914 Art Nouveau
1917-1920 Dada
1900s Fauvism
1940s Abstract Expressionism
1909-1918 Futurism
1924 Surrealism
Pop art 1950s
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Art History Review
Picasso Cubism
Mondrian Neoplasticism
Millet Realism
Monet Impressionism
Tiffany Art Nouveau
Dada Hausmann
Matisse Fauvism
Pollock Abstract Expressionism
Balla Futurism
Magritte Surrealism
Pop art Warhol
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Realists1850-1880

• Painted life truthfully
• Subjects were ordinary, humble images
• Often painted in studios, posing people

Jean Francois Millet
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Impressionism1860-1900

• emphasizes the changing qualities of light
• features obvious brush strokes
• uses points of color to create the
  impression of solid color
• depicts ordinary subject matter

• Claude Monet

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Art Nouveau (New Art)1895-1914

• World-wide art movement characterized by
• natural themes -- especially floral
  (Charles
  Darwins Origin of the Species)
• flowing, curving lines and forms
• useful art designs--furniture, architecture,
  jewelry, etc.

By Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Fauvists (Wild Beasts)1900s

• Began painting with color instead of form
• Use color to express feeling instead of show
  reality
• Unrealistic color
• Use simplified shapes
• Patterns and repeated shapes
• Contrasting color

Artist Henri Matisse
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Cubism (1906-1921)

• Started by Picasso and Georges Braque (French) to
  create a new way of seeing things
• Attempted to show multiple viewpoints at
  once--Minds Eye
• Used combinations of basic geometric shapes
• Painted pictures that look like fractured glass
• Used bright colors and hard-edged forms to create
  a flattened picture

Artist Pablo Picasso
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Neoplasticism New Plastic Art1920s

• Art characterized by
• Abstract instead of realistic images.
• Straight lines and rectangular areas.

• Primary colors or neutral colors such as black,
  white and gray
• No symmetry

Piet Mondrian
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Trafalgar Square
Komposition
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Dada Art1917-1920

• French for hobbyhorse
• Anti-art instead of art
• A reaction to World War I
• Expression of the disorder of the world
• Meant to enrage instead of engage
• Collage of unrelated subjects
• Photomontage

Raoul Hausmann
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Works of Hausmann
ABCD 1924
Art Critic
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Characteristics of Futurism

• Repetition of lines to create rhythm
• Use of time lapse photography to capture the
  element of time
• Illusion of movement
• Brilliant colors
• Flowing brush strokes

Giacomo Balla1871-1958
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Speed of a Motorcycle
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Surrealism1924-

• Mixed reality with fantasy
• Placed real objects in fantasy settings
• Emphasized that art is not real, but the image of
  the real
• Art should be mysterious

Artist Rene Magritte
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Art by Salvador Dali Another Surrealist
artist
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Abstract Expressionism 1940s -
At a certain moment the canvas began to appear
to one American painter after another as an arena
in which to act. What was to go on the canvas
was not a picture but an event. Harold
Rosenberg
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Abstract Expressionism -- History

• The movement had its roots in cubism and
  surrealism.
• Abstract Expressionism started in America after
  World War II.
• With the beginning of Abstract Expressionism,
  New York replaced Paris as the center of the
  art world.

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Features of Abstract Expressionism

• Painting abstract images
• Focusing on surface qualities such as brush
  strokes and texture
• Using huge canvases
• Embracing accidents as part of the art process
• Glorifying the act of painting
• Attempting to capture pure emotion on canvas

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Featured artist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
In the 1940s he began to develop his own unique
techniques

• He affixed the canvas to the floor or wall.
• Paint was poured or dripped on the canvas.
• Sticks, trowels and knives were used instead of
  brushes.
• Sometimes he mixed broken glass or sand into the
  paint.
• He wanted an All-over style where no part of the
  painting is emphasized over another.

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the painting has a life of its own. I
try to let it come through Jackson Pollock
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POP Art

• Every day objects drawn in bold colorful ways
• Short for Popular Art
• Inspired by comic strips, advertising, and
  popular entertainment.

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Artist Andy Warhol

• Born in 1928 with a natural talent for art.
• Studied design and illustration in college.
• Worked in New York City after graduation doing
  magazine illustrations, decorating store windows,
  designing greeting cards, record albums, book
  covers, etc. He even designed the images used in
  TV weather reports.

• Wanted to be famous, so he started his own style
  of painting images from everyday life.
• Made a movie once of a man sleeping for 6 hours.

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Warhols Style
Warhols work made people think differently
about the common, every day objects in their
lives.
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Color Study-- Primary Colors
Red Blue
Yellow
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Color Study--Secondary Colors
Purple
Green
Orange
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Complementary Colors
Colors OPPOSITE each other on the Color Wheel
Red and Green
Yellow and Purple
Blue and Orange
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Warm Colors
Cool Colors
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Analogous Colors
Colors next to each other on the color wheel.
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Monochromatic Colors

• One Color with either black or white added to
  change the value of the color

Shades of a color
Tints of a color
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