Art Movements by Decade
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1750 - 1775 - Rococo |
France, England and Italy
Image Example
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Artistic Manifestations
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Artists
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Artistic Representations
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Jean-Honore Fragonard
- The Love Letter
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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- Expressions of wit, fantasy and frivolity
- Aristocratic
- Occasional serious and satrical undercurrents.
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- France -
- Francios Boucher (1703-1770)
- Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806)
- Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842)
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- England -
- William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
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- Italy -
- Giovani Tiepolo (1696-1770)
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Portraits (single, group, including backgrounds
Narratives, social statements, satire
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1775 - 1820 - Neoclassicism
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- Jacques-Louis David
- The Oath of the Horatii
- Le Louvre, Paris, France 1784
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- Interest in antiquity, classical form and content
- Elimination of Rococo frills
- Focus on clarity, order and simplicity
- Appeal to rational sense, intellect
- Use of metaphor and allegory
- Heroic stories and gestures are encouraged
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- France -
- Angela Kaufmann (1741-1807)
- Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
- Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
- England -
- Benjamin West (1738 - 1820)
- John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
- Italy -
- Antonio Canova (1757-1882)
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Portraits- single, group. including backgrounds
Narratives - historical, genre
Historical metaphors - classical reference
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1798 - 1880 - Romanticism |
France, Spain and England |
Francisco Goya
- Execution on the Third of May, 1814
- Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
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- Nostalgia for the past - long ago and far away
- Interest in medieval tales of adventure and chivalry
- Interest in nature, natural beauty
- Interest in imagination, dreams, states of mind
- Appeal of emotions, expressions and sentiments
- Support of contemporary causes
- Revival of historical aarchitectural styles
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- France -
- Francois Rude (1784-1855)
- Theodore Gericault (1748-1825)
- Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
- England -
- John Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Jospeh Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
- John Constable (1776-1837)
- Architects:
- John Nash (1752-1835)
- Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860)
- Augustus Wm Pugin (1812-1852)
- Spain -
- Francisco Goya (1757-1882)
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Portraits - single, group; including settings and backgrounds
Narrative - literary, historical
Landscape -objective, subjective and sublime
Architecture -Gothic Revival
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1840 - 1900 - Realism |
France, England |
- Honore Daumier
- Third Class Carriage, 1865
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Direct observations of society and nature
Development of political and social satire
Social and political cartoons and caricatures
Social observations,emphasis on class distinctions
Natural atmospheres
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France:
- Jean Francois Millet (1814-1875)
- Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)
- Gustave Courbet(1819-1877)
- Honore Daumier (1808-1879)
- Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
- England (Pre-Raphaelites)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
- John Everett Millais (1829-1896)
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Portraits - single, group, including settings and backgrounds
Animals - settings, with and without people
Narrative - objective, subjective, satire, literary
Landscape - as a subject, as a background
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1860 - 1900 - Impressionism - France |
- Claude Monet
- Rouen Cathedral
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- Artistic Manifestations:
- Concern with optical realism rather than social realism
- Natural properties of light
- Changes in weather conditions, time, seasons
- Interior effects of artificial light
- Observations of society (Bourgeois, Bohemian)
- Subject matter: genre, leisure, entertainment, landscape
- Concern with technique: brushstroke and color manipulation
- Influence of technology: photography, synthetic color
- Influence of culture: Japonism and formal structure
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Artists:
France
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
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Artistic Representations:
Portraits (single, group; exterior and interior backgrounds)
Landscape (as a subject)
Narrative (genre, leisure, entertainment)
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1880 - 1910 - Post-Impressionism |
France |
- Paul Gauguin
- La Orana Maria, 1891
- Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York City
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Artistic Manifestations:
Diverse individual characteristics, yet influenced by Impressionist artists
Color theories examined
Bright colors; visible distinct brushwork
Color separations
Clearly defined edges
Two manifestations:
Formal structure and values: composition paramount
Cezanne, Seurat
Emotional Content
Van Gogh, Gauguin
Influence of Japonism
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Artists:
France
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901)
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
George Seurat (1851-1891)
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
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Artistic Representations:
Portraits (self, individual, group)
Figure Studies (formal structure vs. emotional content)
Still lifes
Narratives (religious, metaphors)
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1890 - 1945 - Expressionism |
France, Germany, Belgium |
Kathe Kollwitz
The Uprising, 1899
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Artistic Manifestations:
Expressive and emotional possibilities of color
Introduction of Freudian theory
Symbolist content:
Social consciousness of realism
Internal world of imagination
Irrational aspects of the human mind
Subject matter:
Literature
Myths
Allegory
Dreams
Spirituality
Haunting, stark imagery
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Artists:
France:
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
Edvard Munch 1863-1883) (born Norway)
Germany:
Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945)
Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Ernst Kirchner (1880-1938)
Max Beckman (1884-1950)
George Grosz (1893-1959)
Austria:
Gustave Klimt (1862-1918)
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Artistic Representations:
Portrait (self, group)
Psychological content
Backgrounds
Figures (narrative, decorative)
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1905 - 1915 - Fauvism ("Wild Beasts") |
France, Germany |
Franz Marc
Der Tiger, 1914
Lenbachhaus; Munich, Germany
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Artistic Manifestations:
Bright, non-naturalistic, and often unusually vivid colors
Strong use of pictorial space, pictorial movement
Forms built from color and/or pattern
Emotional content
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Artists:
France:
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)
Andre Derain (1880-1954)
Germany:
Franz Marc (1880-1916)
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Artistic Representations:
Figures
Landscapes
Animals
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1907 - 1920 - Cubism |
France |
Pablo Picasso
Man With a Pipe, 1911
Kimball Art Museum; Fort Worth, Texas
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Artistic Manifestations:
Objective
Radical approach to space, spatial organization
Radical break from reality:
Abstraction
Fragmentation
Distortion
Simplification
Asymmetry
Simultaneous views and directions. No single point of view
Bold strokes of color or monochromatic schemes
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Artists:
France:
Jacques Villon (1875-1963)
Pablo Picasso (1880-1973)
Georges Braques (1881-1963)
Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
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Artistic Representations:
Figures
Still lifes
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1909 - 1925 - Futurism |
Italy |
Giacomo Balla
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
Jewish Museum; New York City
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Artistic Manifestations:
Dynamism, strong compositions
Dynamic energy
Speed, travel
Technology
Machines
Strong color
Break with academic traditions
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Artists:
Italy:
Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
Filippo Marinetti (1876-1944)
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
Gino Severini (1883-1966)
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Artistic Representations:
People (usually single)
Citylife
Sports
Aeropaintings (depicting movement)
Text (words) in art
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1915 - 1933 - Bauhaus |
Germany |
Paul Klee
Temple Gardens, 1920
Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York City
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Artistic Manifestations:
Correlation between creative design and modern industry and science
Smooth, tensile forms combined with strong colors (ex. tubular steel furniture)
Integrated expressionist styles with design and architecture
Materials: steel, concrete, chrome, glass
Varied Fine and Technical artists, architects:
Advertising, stage, photography, typography, furniture, architecture
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Artists: (most emigrated after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus in 1933)
Germany
Lyonel Feininger (1871 1956)
Walter Gropius (1883 1969)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 1969)
Josef Albers (1888 1976)
Switzerland
Paul Klee (1879 1940)
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Artistic Representations:
Abstract imagery
Advertising, typography
Industrial design: furniture, house-wares
Architecture
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1915 - 1945 - Surrealism |
France, Spain, Belguim, Italy |
Salvador Dali
Persistence of Memory, 1931
Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York City
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Artistic Manifestations:
Symbolism, personal imagery
Alternative to formal theories of Cubism
Emphasis on positive expression
Influenced by theories of Sigmund Freud
Reunited ‘conscious and unconscious’ realms of experience
‘Absolute Reality:’ the worlds of dream and fantasy joined to the everyday rational world in an “absolute reality, a surreality”
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Artists:
France
Marc Chagall (1887 1985)
Marcel Duchamps (1887 1968)
Max Ernst ( 1891 1976)
Yves Tanguy (1900 1955)
Spain
Joan Miro (193 1983)
Salvador Dali ( 1904 1989)
Belgium
Rene Magritte (1898 1967)
Italy
Giorgio de Chirico (1888 1978)
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Artistic Representations:
Spontaneous imagery, free association
Automatism
Fantasy
Confusion
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