What are art movements?

Why is Spongebob such a great cartoon show?

What did that last question have to do with art?

Claude Monet August Renoir

Berthe Morisot

Alfred Sisley

Erich Heckel Ludwig Kirchner

Emil Nolde Max Beckmann

Al HeldJosef Albers

Harriet KormanValerie Jaudon

What is an art movement?

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within usually a number of years.

- Wikipedia

What do we need to ask ourselves?

• Form – What visual information do the works have in common?

• Theme – What are the big ideas driving these artists?

• Context – What is happening at the time in which the art is made?

Examples of Impressionism

Claude Monet, London, Houses of Parliament, The Sun Shining Through the Fog, 1904

Pierre Auguste Renoir, Boating on the Seine, 1879

Examples of Impressionism

Edgar Degas, Ballet Rehearsal on Stage, 1874

Camille Pissarro, The Big Walnut Tree, Flooding, Sunlight Effect, Eragny, 1892

Examples of Post-Impressionism

Paul Cezanne, Card Players, 1893

Paul Gauguin, Reo Ma’ohi, 1893

Examples of Post-Impressionism

Vincent van Gogh, Straßenarbeiter1889

Emile Bernard, Breton Women in the Meadow, 1888

Examples of Fauvism

Maurice de Vlaminck, The River Seine at Chatou, 1906

Andre Derain, Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1906

Examples of Fauvism

Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre, 1906

Examples of Cubism

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

Georges Braque, Still Life with Violin, 1911

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase,

Examples of CUBISM

Pablo Picasso, Houses on a Hill, 1909

Pablo Picasso, Landscape at Ceret, 1911

Examples of CUBISM

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self –Portrait with Model, 1906

Max Beckman, Family, 1920

Examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

Emil Nolde, Crucifiction

Examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

Franz Marc, Yellow Cow

Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931 Rene Magritte, Collective Invention

Examples of SURREALISM

Max Ernst, Attirement of the Bride Yves Tanguy, sun in Jewel Case

Examples of SURREALISM

Willem DeKooning, Gotham News, 1955

Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952

Examples of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Philip Guston, Zone, 1954

Joan Mitchell

Examples of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Richard Hamilton,

Richard Lidner

Examples of POP ART

Wayne TiebaudAndy Warhol

Examples of POP ART

Frank StellaAl Held, MO-T, 1970

Examples of GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

Harriet Korman, Untitled, 2004 Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1959

Examples of GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

Agnes Martin

Examples of Minimalism

Robert Morris

Examples of Minimalism

Richard Serra

John McCraken

Richard EstesMalcolm Morley

Examples of PHOTO-REALISM

Chuck Close

Duane Hanson

Examples of PHOTO-REALISM

Pablo Picasso

Frank Stella

Which of these paintings is an example of Cubism? Geometric Abstraction?

Barnett NewmanSalvadore Dali

Which of these is an example of Surrealism? Abstract Expressionism?

Peter Blake Janet Fish

Which is an example of Pop Art? Photo Realism?

These paintings all belong to a “movement” known as Color Field painting. The other artwork was by Henri Matisse.

Mark Rothko

Morris Louis

Helen Frankenthaler

These paintings are all from a “movement” known as Impressionism (actually from the 19th century). The other painting was by Edvard Munch, an expressionist painter.

Edouard Manet

Georges SeuratEdgar Degas

These paintings come from a movement know as Post Graffiti. The other artwork was from a 18th

century artist William Blake.

Keith Haring

Kenny Schraf

Rodney Alan Greenblat

These are all from the Photo-Realist movement. The other painting was by Paul Cezanne.

Philip Pearlstein Audrey Flack

Don Eddy