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(1848–1900) Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting
Key Artists: Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, Courbet, Andre Derain -
Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air rustic painting
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Gustave Courbet
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Capturing fleeting effects of natural light
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Van Gogh
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A soft revolt against Impressionism
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emotion and distortion of form
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painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
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objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form
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focused on fundamental geometric forms (in particular the square and circle)
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Surrealism (1917–1950) Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the unconscious
Key Artist: Salvador Dali, Renee Margritte -
De Stijl (1917 – 1931) sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction.
Key Artist: Mondrian, Theo Van Doesberg -
sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction
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Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the unconscious
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a rejection of the idea of autonomous art in favour of art as a practice for social purposes
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Theo Van Doesburg
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Renee Margritte
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Mondrian
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The focus of art also shifted from the art product to the art process. To express feelings and emotions, applied paint rapidly, huge canvases, painting gesturally, non-geometrically,
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Pop Art (1960s) brought back the materials of daily life into art – comics, television, magazines and in short popular culture. The mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique. The gap between “high art” and “low art” was bridged.
Key Artist: Andy Wharol, Roy Lichenstein -
brought back the materials of daily life into art – comics, television, magazines and in short popular culture. The mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique. The gap between “high art” and “low art” was bridged.
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Andy Wharhol
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Art without a center, reworking and mixing past styles
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it is a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the problem of objective truth and inherent suspicion towards global cultural narrative. It emphasizes the role of language, power relations, and motivations; in particular it attacks the use of sharp classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial.
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Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature.
