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7/28/2019 art movements 2

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Post Impressionism

Expressionism

Art Nouveau

Fauvism

Cubism

Futurism

Orphism

Art Deco

Surrealism

Abstractionism

Action Painting

Pop

Op

Minimalism

Post Modern


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Post Impressionism (whichalso included pointillism) is

an art movementcharacterized by its moveaway in different directions

from Impressionism as seenin Still Life with Apples and

Oranges (1895) by Paul

Cezanne, Van GoghPainting Sunflowers (1888)by Paul Gaugin, and

Sunflowers (1888) (StarryNight (1889) by Vincent Van

Gogh.


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Expressionism is an art movement characterized by human

feelings like fear, showing tragedy like the horrors of war, darker

colors, and angry strokes, as seen in Scream (1893) and TheDead Mother (1897) by Edvard Munch, Christs Entry into

Brussels (1889) and Skeletons Warming Themselves at a Stove

(1889) by James Ensor.
http://www.artmagick.com/paintings/enlarge.aspx?pid=1481&path=ensor/ensor8


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Art Nouveau was an arts and crafts

movement characterized by curvilinear lines,

soft colors, floral motifs, the female body,

nature and a high level of craftsmanship in

response to shoddy manmade goods, as seen

in these works from from the late 1890s by

Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860 to 1939);

Dance, The Blonde; the Tassel House byVictor Horta 1892 and the stained glass

Wisteria lamp by Louis Comfort Tiffany

(1902).
http://www.funprox.com/art/mucha_dance.jpghttp://www.textanalyse.dk/Billeder/matisse.jpg


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Fauvism (wild beasts) was an art movement that used intense sometimes clashing or unnatural colors and boldbrush strokes as seen in Joy of Life (1905) and Harmony in Red (1908) by Henri Matisse, The Blue House (1906)

by Maurice de Vlaminck, and St. Pauls Cathedral seen from the Thames (1906) by Andr Derain.
http://www.textanalyse.dk/Billeder/matisse.jpg


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Cubism is a movement in art, characterized by subjects reduced to geometric shapes such as cubes,

shows different views and angles of an object that couldnt be seen normally like a 3-D picture flattened

out as seen in The Three Musicians (1921) and Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso,

Bottle and Fishes (1910) and Man and a Guitar (1911) by George Braque


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Futurism is an Italian art movement celebrating noise,

technology, machines, war, photography andmovement, characterized by contrast, speed, andrestlessness of modern life as seen in Street Light,Study of Light (1909) and Dynamism of a Dog on aLeash (1912) by Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a SoccerPlayer (1913) by Umberto Boccioni, and Armoured Train(1915) by Gino Severini.


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Orphism is an art

movement sometimes

called Orphic Cubism,

characterized by use of

circles, and overlapping

planes of bright,

contrasting colors as seen

in Simultaneous

Contrasts: Sun and Moon

(1912) and Carousel with

Pigs (1922) by Robert

Delaunay and Rythme

Couleur (1958)ElectricPrisms (1914) by his wife

Sonia Delaunay


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Art Deco (a term not used till the1960s) is a Post WWI style andperiod of art that began in Paris asArt Moderne and also known asstreamline modern, in the 1920s

based on new technology andmodern living, having extravagant

colors and designs, and using

distortion and simplificationconsidered to be elegant andsophisticated as seen in the

Chrysler Building (1930) by WilliamVan Alen (Am), glassware by RenLalique, furniture by Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe, and fashionmagazine illustration and costume

design by Erte, and householdgoods frim the 1930s.


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Surrealism is a form of artcharacterized by a dreamlike

quality, confusing images,strange combinations of

objects and shapes as seen inConstellations (1940+) by

Joan Miro (Sp.), ThePersistence of Memory (1933)

by Salvador Dali (Sp.), TheSon of Man (1964) by ReneMagritte (Bel.), and I and the

Village (1911) by Marc Chagall(Russ.)


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Abstractionism is an art movement from the early to mid 1900s, which is characterized by non-

representational 2 dimensional forms, simple shapes and lines, not a lot of blending, and pure colors as

seen in White Center by Mark Rothko, Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian, Red Canna by Georgia

OKeeffe (1924), and Composition #4 by Wassily Kandinsky (1911).


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Action Painting is an abstract expressionism art

movement characterized by asymmetry, bold, strong

aggressive brush strokes, dribbling or splashing of

paint, disorganization, and spontaneity as seen in

Jackson Pollocks (pictured in action) Lavender Mist

(1950), Franz Klines Untitled (1954), and Willem de

Koonings Study for Woman Number One (1952).
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Pop Art is an art movement

that began in England,

characterized by popular

images like those in movies,

politics, advertising, comic

strips, supermarket products

as seen in M-Maybe (1965)

and Wham (1963) by Roy

Lichtenstein, and Brillo Box

(1968) and Marilyn Monroe

(1962) by Andy Warhol.


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Op Art is a form of Abstract

art characterized by use of

optical color and perspective

illusions, repetition of simple

forms, confusing backgroundand foreground, and other

visual effects as seen in

Balcony (1945) and Other

World (1947) by MC Escher,

Axo GJ (1968) and Boo

(1978) by Victor Vasarely


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Minimalism or Color Field is a style of art which is characterized by no

recognizable objects and a minimum of colors, shapes, lines andtextures as seen in Orange and Yellow (1956) by Mark Rothko, Blue,

Green, Yellow, Orange, Red (1966) by Ellsworth Kelly, Scramble

Ascending Orange Values (1978) and Harran II (1967) by Frank Stella.


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Peter Max

1960s Pop

ArtistKeith Haring 1980s

Semi-abstract

Chuck Close Photorealist 1990s

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