Sunday, April 27, 2014

Pop Art

3 Characteristics:

  • celebrates everyday objects
  • mocks established art by appropriating images from the street
  • embraces commercial techniques



Andy Warhol

Orange Disaster #5, 1963

Flowers, 1964

Roy Lichtenstein

Girl with Tear I, 1977

In, 1962

Abstract Expressionism

3 Characteristics:

  • use of brushstrokes and textures
  • the embracing of chance and the frequently massive canvases
  • conveys powerful emotions through the glorification of the act of painting


Wassily Kandinsky

Pastorale, 1911

Group in Crinolines, 1909


Willem de Kooning 

Villa Borghese, 1960


...Whose Name Was Writ in Water, 1975

Surrealism

3 Characteristics:

  • expresses the imagination as revealed in dreams
  • emphasis on the mysterious 
  • incorporation of chance and spontaneity 


Salvador Dali


Illumined Pleasures, 1929

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Rene Magritte

Voice of Space, 1931

Empire of Light, 1953-54

Marc Chagall

The Soldier Drinks, 1911-1912

Rain, 1911

Cubism

3 Characteristics:

  • rejected the concept that art should copy nature
  • fractured objects into geometric shapes
  • used multiple vantage points


Pablo Picasso

Guitar, 1913

Paul as Harlequin, 1924

Georges Braque


The Bowl of Grapes, 1926

Guitar, Glass, and Fruit Dish on Sideboard, 1919

Paul Cezanne


Still Life: Plate of Peaches, 1879-1880

Man with Crossed Arms, 1899

Fauvism

3 Characteristics:

  • uses intesenly vivid, non-naturalistic and exubernet colors
  • generally featured landscapes in which forms are distorted
  • bold, undisguised brushstrokes


Franz Marc

Broken Forms, 1914

Yellow Cow, 1911

Henri Matisse
Flowers in a Pitcher, 1906

 Mme Matisse: Madras Rouge, 1907

Post-Impressionism

3 Characteristics:
  • same bold colors of Impressionism
  • freedom from traditional subject matter 
  • uses a technique of defining from with short brushstrokes of broken color

Vincent Van Gogh

Landscape at Saint-Rémy, 1889

Starry Night over the Rhone, 1888

Impressionism


3 Characteristics:
  • artist captures image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it
  • a lot of color
  • artists like to capture their images without details but with bold color
Claude Monet


Magpie, 1868-69                                  La Grenouillère, 1869



Mary Cassatt

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878               The Lamp, 1891


Edgar Degas

Place de la Concorde, 1875                           Les repasseuses (Women Ironing), 1884