EDU 151
Chapter 7
Introducing the World’s Art
Artistic Styles
Prehistoric Art (Primitive Art)
Unknown Cave Artists
Naturalist or Realistic Art (Realism)
Art that focuses on showing reality.
The artists attempted to make art objective and like the actual object.
Rembrandt
Leonardo DaVinci
John James Audubon
Winslow Homer
Georgia O’Keefe
Norman Rockwell
James Whistler
Grant Wood
Andrew Wyeth
Impressionism
Art that focuses on capturing the effect of light.
Artists painted what they perceived rather than what they knew to be there.
Impressionists were fascinated with color, sunshine, contrasts, light, reflection, and shadow.
They used color and light to represent and artist’s impression.
Mary Cassatt
Paul Cezanne
Edgar Degas
Edouard Manet
Claude Monet
Pierre August Renior
Vincent Van Gogh
Pointillism
An offshoot of Impressionism Art that uses small dots of different
colors that the eye blends together.
Georges Seurat
Expressionism
Paul Gaugin
Edward Munch
Abstract (in text: Abstract Expressionism)
Artists were intrigued with color and the physical qualities of paint: “What can I do with paint on canvas?”
The art has no recognizable subject, the focus is on color and media, often applied in a kinesthetic way.
Jackson Pollock
Hans Hoffman
Wassily Kandinsky
Willem DeKooning
Cubism
Art that represents three-dimensional objects as if made of geometric shapes and forms.
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cezanne
Georges Braque
Folk Art
Artworks created by people who have not had formal training in art, or who use nontraditional art media in ways that reflect their culture.
Grandma Moses
David Butler
Op Art
Art based on visual illusions and perceptions.
Victor Vaserly
Pop Art
Art that is based on images from everyday life and popular culture.
Andy Worhol
Jasper Johns
Surrealism
An artistic style concerned with fantasies or dreams.
Salvador Dali
Marc Chagall
Kinetic Art
art that moves or has moving parts
Mobile-Three-dimensional art that moves
Calder