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Impressionism
This was the first modern art movement, initiated by Parisian artists who rejected the principles of fine art at the time. These artists, including Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, focused on capturing the impression of a scene in a single, fleeting moment. Instead of clarity and realism, they concentrated on the response of the senses, with vivid colour and light, and loose brushstrokes, often painting outdoors. -
Sunrise - Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) is a painting by Claude Monet. It gave rise to the name of the Impressionist movement. Artwork delivered fantastically by the audience and the term 'Impressionism' came from title of the artwork. -
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Post Impressionism
This term is used to describe the style of art after Manet, who was a French painter, and the style is very similar however it was more pointedly emphasizing geometric forms and more bold and distorted images that had no real subject matter. Important artists from the Post-Impressionism period were Vincent Van Gogh and Georges Pierre-Seurat. -
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884 is one of Georges Seurat's most famous works, and is an example of pointillism. Artist: Georges-Pierre Seurat -
'The Starry Night' - Vincent Van Gogh
Was greatly delivered by worldwide audience and considered his best work. - Artist painted the artwork from memory during the day, and was not as happy with it as the people surrounding him. He felt it lacked individual intention and 'feeling in the lines'. Van coughs most popular piece -
'The Scream' - Edvard Munch
Depicts a frightful experience of his youth in which he had a vision where the air turned red and an endless scream rang in his ears. -Artwork expresses stress, anxiety and personal tragedies he has experienced. - It is very popular in modern culture and parodied, imitated and copied in art, literature, film, television and other aspects of society. -
Women with a hat - Henri Matisse
Woman with a Hat (La femme au chapeau) is a painting by Henri Matisse. An oil on canvas, it depicts Matisse's wife, Amelie. It was painted in 1905 and exhibited with the work of André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and several other artists, now known as "Fauves" at the 1905 Salon d'Automne. -
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Fauvism
Fauvism, created by artists named 'les Fauves' (the wild beasts), was a short by intreging period which lastest a few short and very colourful years, contrasting colours and heavy brushstrokes, with much less value for realism than earlier movements. The Fauves abandoned traditional 3-D space for a more two-dimensional world of 'colour panes'. Led by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, -
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Expressionism
Expressionism originated in germany, and it aimed to evoke profound emotion and focussed on meaning and emotional experiences rather than reality. It distorted perspectives and subjects in order to express moods and ideas. Expressionist artists criticised the 'lack of emotion' in Impressionist artworks, instead turning to the subconscious and exploring the dark nature, motivations and fear embedded in human nature. They expressed this through symbols, striking colours and often crude execution. -
Big Ben - Andre Derain
Derain Painted in a style called fauvism for this piece of work. the colours are mixed together, they are bright and bold. The brush strokes are made to distort reality. Quite like the Morse code this art is done in dots and dashes. The colours are vibrant but still shaded. -
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Cubism
Cubism effected all aspects of culture and art and was essentially the idea of taking objects or visual pictures, breaking them down and reassembling them to a simplified, abstract geometric form. A lot of influence of the Cubism style came from former Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne who was also known for his planes of colour and small brushstrokes of Cubism. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the main leaders and founders of the art movement Cubism of the early twentieth century. -
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Futurism
This exciting and glorious movement was a largely Italian that disregarded all traditions of art and embraced the beauty of speed and technology. Futurists loved cars, machines, speed, noise, pollution, violence, cities and the modern world. Their works were highly emotive, featuring irregular, energetic lines that expressed frantic movement. -
Violin and candle stick
This work embodies the dynamic and energetic qualities of Analytic Cubism, a revolutionary artistic style pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso to depict three-dimensional objects on a flat canvas without the use of traditional Renaissance perspective. -
Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound
It has been proposed that Abstract Speed + Sound (1913–14) was the central section of a narrative triptych suggesting the alteration of landscape by the passage of a car through the atmosphere.1 The related Abstract Speed (Velocità + paesaggio, 1913) and Abstract Speed—The Car Has Passed (1913) would have been the flanking panels. -
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Suprematism
Suprematism, the invention of Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was one of the earliest and most radical developments in abstract art. Its name derived from Malevich's belief that Suprematist art would be superior to all the art of the past, and that it would lead to the "supremacy of pure feeling or perception in the pictorial arts." Heavily influenced by avant-garde poets, and an emerging movement in literary criticism, Malevich derived his interest in flouting the rules of language, in defying -
black square
This piece displayed the simplicity yet sophistication that some paintings may portray. this peice is a creamy background with an agressive black square placed perfectly in the middle. it challenges peoples concepts of what the term "art" really is -
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Dada
"Dada" movement self proclaimed itself as 'anti-art'. It attacked art conventions, the meaning of art, and what defined art. Aiming to shock the audience, Dada artworks were illogical, irrational and nonsensical. Even the name 'Dada' reflects its ideals, either drawn from the first words of a baby or the French word for rocking horse. Dada questioned the sanity and logic of an audience who could willingly subject innocent people to the horrors of WWI. -
Dadai
Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. -
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De Stijl (Neo Plasticism)
Neo-plasticism was a Dutch artistic movement, whose essential artists were Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. De Stijl's main cultural idea was utopia and spiritual harmony by taking the world and futher abstracting and simplifying it to basic, geometric forms and primary forms - the new plastic art. Neo-plasticism can be found in everyday art such as furniture, architecture and even visual art such as painting. -
'Fountain' - Marcel Duchamp
ountain is a 1917 work widely attributed to Marcel Duchamp. The scandalous work was a porcelain urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt" and titled Fountain. Submitted for the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, Fountain was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee. -
Red and blue chair
he Red Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. The original chair was constructed of unstained beech wood and was not painted until the early 1920s. -
The Elephant Celebes
The Elephant Celebes (or Celebes) is a 1921 painting by the German Dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst. It is among the most famous of Ernst's early surrealist works and "undoubtedly the first masterpiece of Surrealist painting in the De Chirico tradition. It combines the vivid, dreamlike atmosphere of Surrealism with the collage aspects of Dada. -
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Surrealism
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement. -
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Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism. -
No. 5 1948 Jackson Pollock
No. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. The painting was done on an 8' × 4' sheet of fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance. -
Just what is it that makestoday's homes so different, so appealing?
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? is a collage by English artist Richard Hamilton. It measures 10.25 in (260 mm) × 9.75 in (248 mm). The work is now in the collection of the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. It was the first work of pop art to achieve iconic status. -
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Pop Art
Pop artists used collage, paint and mixed media as well as new technology of the time such as screen printing. Pop Art challenged the traditional conventions of art, attempting to eliminate the difference between fine art and 'lowly' popular culture. Artists like Andy Warhol combined the two, using images and inspiration from pop culture in their artworks. Pop art didn't reflect the emotions of the artist but more commented objectively on the pop culture of the world around them. -
Movement in squares Bridget Riley
Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping. -
Campbells Soup Cans - Andy Warhol
Campbell's Soup Cans,which is sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans, is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. It consists of thirty-two canvases, each measuring 20 inches (51 cm) in height × 16 inches (41 cm) in width and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup can—one of each of the canned soup varieties the company offered at the time. -
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Op Art
Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions."Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white.
