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Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was one of the most famous Expressionist. Manet was born in Paris in a upper class family. He moved away from his family and concerntrated on his art. Manet didnt consider himself a impressionist but due to his relationships with expressionists and his influence on impressionism, he is group into impressionism. -
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Claude Monet
Claude Monet was born in Paris, France the art capital of the world at the time. Monet found art very generic and decided to go out and paint whatever he saw. He also developed a friendship with Edouard Monet, another hugely famous impressionist. Monet went to London and Amsterdam, being influenced by other impressionists. -
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist artist who is still considered one of the greatest artists in history. Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes of flowers, and portriats. -
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Georges Seurat
George Seurat was a famous post-impressionist artist. Seurat took to heart the color theorists' notion of a scientific approach to painting. Seurat believed that a painter could use color to create harmony in his work. -
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Impressionism
Impressionism started in France. It reached its peak in the 1870's and 1880's despite a lot harsh opposition in the French art community. Impressionism uses colours widely and doesnt necessarily concerntrate on whether it looks realistic, but that it looks beautiful. Artists uses thick, short brush strokes and didnt mix their colours much to make the artworks look vibrant. -
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass)
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) is a painting by impressionist Édouard Manet. It was painted using oil paint on a large canvas. The painting depicts two fully clothed men having lunch with a nude women, while another nude in the background bathes herself. After a number of galleries rejected the artwork it was finally up in the Salon des Refusés. It was controversial, as the art world believed that prostitutes shouldnt be in art. -
Impression, Soleill Levant (Impression Sunrise)
Impression, Soliel Levant (Impression Sunrise) is a painting by Claude Monet. It was painted on a canvas using oil paints. Monet painted Impression, Soleil Levant in Le Havre, France. He painted it of the harbour and uses very loose brush strokes to suggest rather than point it out. -
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Post-Impressionism
Post-impressionism was very much a extension on Impressionism except it tried to break the rules more. Post-impressionist artists tried to emphasize geometric forms, distort from for expressive impact and use unnatural colour. -
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was painted by post-impressionist painter George Seurat. It was painted on a canvas using oil paints and is an example of pointillism. Pointillism is when a painting is merely a large number of different coloured dots, which make up the painting. Georges Seurat spent over two years painting it, focusing on the landscape of the park. -
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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was one of the most famous Dadaist artist. Born in 1887 in Blainville-Crevon, France. Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing but through subversive actions. Duchamp pushed the boundaries of what art was in a number of his paintings. -
The Starry Night
The Starry Night is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. It is one of van Goghs most famous painting and has been in the permanent collection in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It was painted on canvas using oil paints. -
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Hannah Höch
Hannah Höch was a famous Dada artist. She is best known for when she was one of the founders of photomontage.Höch was born in Gotha, Germany and later moved to Holland to gain the friendship of other famous artists including Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian. -
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Expressionism
Expressionism came from Germany, Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.Expressionist artists wanted to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. -
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Fauvism
Fauvism started in Paris and extended on Impressionism. It concerntrated on paint texture and colour. The movement didnt last long and only had three well known exhibitions. -
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Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was a famous abstract expressionist painter who specialised in colour field paintings. He was born in Russia and moved to America like most abstract expressionist artists. Rothko painted on large canvases using paint which had been mixed with various chemicals to enhance his work. -
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Cubism
Cubism emerged from Paris and is widely considered the most influencial artform in the 20th century. It concerntrates on the shapes of a artwork and distorts the figures. Cubism abandoned the tradition of perspective drawing and displayed many views of a subject at one time. -
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Futurism
Futurism originated in Italy and emphasized themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city. Futurism reached into various mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music and architecture -
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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was one of the most famous absract artists and was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, America. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. Pollock used liquid paint and would pour, drip or splash paint on his huge canvases. -
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 is a painting by famous Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. It was painted using oil paints on a large canvas. It depicts a women walking down the stairs, however its her path down the stairs that is painted. The women is painted as shapes. -
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Suprematism
Suprematism started in Russia and was founded by Kazimir Malevich. Suprematism focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. -
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Dada
Dada (or Dadaism) originated in Zurich, Switzerland and spread to Berlin, Germany. Dada came to be after World War One and artists fed of the pain the war caused. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. -
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De Stijl (Neo Plasticism)
De Stijl (or Neo Plasticism) was founded in the Netherlands. De Stijl aimed to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. De Stijl only used the primary colours, along with black and white. All work was fully abstract and used shape prominantly. -
Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany
Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany is an artwork by famous Dada artist Hannah Höch. It was made of mixture of fabric, newspaper cuttings and pictures. This artwork was massively politcal in Germany at the time. -
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Surrealism
Surrealism originated from Paris in World War 1 and was influenced by the pain felt through Europe. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions. -
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Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton was a famous Pop artist and would make collages. Richard Hamilton enjoyed international acclaim with a number of major exhibitions being organised of his work. -
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was a artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His artworks pushed the boundaries of what art was. His works made him very famous and he coined the expression "15 minutes of fame." -
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Op Art
Op art (aka Optical Art) is a art form which is made of shapes of various shapes or sizes that begin to move when you look at them. This is known as an optical illusion. -
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Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism was created in America after World War 2. The pain of war influenced the artists, most of whom were from Europe and moved to America. Artists concerntrated on putting their emotions into their work and is supposed to creat an emotional experience. -
No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange)
No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange) is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. It is a colour field painting using the colours Cream, Magenta, Black, Green and Orange. This painting was in Rothko's late period of work and like most of his work was painted on a large canvas. Currently this painting is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. -
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Pop Art
Pop Art emerged from Britian and the United States. Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. -
No. 5, 1948
No. 5, 1948 was a painting by famous abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock. It is one of the many drip works by Pollock. It took Pollock two years to complete and is called No. 5, 1948 despite being finished in 1950. -
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? is an artwork by Pop art artist Richard Hamilton.The artwork was created in 1956 for the catalogue of the exhibition This Is Tomorrow in London,England. The artwork is a collage made of various pictures to do with popular culture of the time. -
32 Campbell's Soup Cans
32 Campbell's Soup Cans is a artwork by Pop Artist Andy Warhol. This artwork was controversial as it made people question what art is. The artwork shows 32 Campbells soup cans all that look the same and are merely soup cans.Warhol subsequently produced a wide variety of art works depicting Campbell's Soup cans due to their success.
