Abstract - Artists felt that paintings did not have to show only things that were recognizable. In their paintings they did not try to show people, animals, or places exactly as they appeared in the real world. They mainly used color and shape in their paintings to show emotions. Some Abstract art is also called Non-objective art. In non-objective art, you do not see specific objects. It is not painted to look like something specific.
-William De Kooning -Mark Rothko -Robert Motherwell -Abstractartist.org |
Cubism - In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Pioneered by Picasso and Braque.
-Pablo Picasso -Georges Braque -Juan Gris -Diego Rivera -Marcel Duchamp |
Expressionism - Expressionist Art, the artist tries to express certain feelings about some thing. The artists that painted in this style were more concerned with having their paintings express a feeling than in making the painting look exactly like what they were painting.
-Wassily Kandinsky -Joseph Stella -Franz Marc |
Fauvism - Was an art style that lasted only four years, beginning in 1905. The leader of this movement was Henri Matisse. The word Fauvism is french for "wild beasts". It got this name because the paintings had bright and unusual colors. The subjects in the paintings were shown in a simple way, and the colors and patterns were bright and wild.
-Henri Matisse -Andre' Derain |
Impressionism - Was developed in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These pieces of art were painted as if someone just took a quick look at the subject of the painting. The paintings were usually in bold colors and did not have a lot of detail. The paintings in this style were usually outdoor scenes like landscapes. The pictures were painted to look like they were shimmering.
-Pierre-Auguste -Renoir -Mary Cassatt -Claude Monet -Edgar Degas -Édouard Manet |
Pop Art - Can be any everyday item that is drawn in a brash and colorful way. Pop Art is short for Popular Art. It is inspired by comic strips, advertising, and popular entertainment.
-Keith Haring -Andy Warhol -Jasper Johns -Roy Lichtenstein -David Hockney |
Post-Impressionism - Began in the 19th century. It was mainly still lifes and landscapes. The post impressionists liked to use lots of colors and shadows.
-Vincent van Gogh -Paul Cezanne -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -George Seurat -Paul Gauguin |
Primitivism - Primitive Art looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very simply, and the subjects are "flat", or two-dimensional.
-Paul Klee -Henri Rousseau |
Realism - Depicts things exactly as they appear in life. It began in the 18th century, but the greatest Realist era was in the mid-19th century. Most Realists were from France, but there were some famous American painters who were Realists also.-Leonardo da Vinci
-Rembrandt -Edward Hopper -Thomas Hart Benton -Grant Wood -Georgia O'Keeffe -Jean-François Millet -Chuck Close |
Romanticism - It is a deeply-felt style which is individualistic, beautiful, exotic, and emotionally wrought.
-Jospeh Mallord William Turner -John Everett Millais -John Constable -Caspar David Friedrich |
Surrealism - Developed out of the Dada activities of World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris.Surrealists paintings were generally based on dreams. The paintings were filled with familiar objects which were painted to look strange or mysterious. They hoped their odd paintings would make people look at things in a different way and change the way they felt about things.
-Salvador Dali -Joan Miro -Marc Chagall -Frida Kahlo -Rene Magritte -Max Ernst |
Symbolism - An art movement which rejected the purely visual realism of the Impressionists, and the rationality of the Industrial Age, in order to depict the symbols of ideas.---Gustav Klimt
Edvard Munch George Frederic Watts |