Intro to Visual Arts 203

The Kiss (Lovers)

A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated

__________ is an American post-World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "________" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism. In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky.

Abstract Expressionism

James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933)

American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. His specialty is taking fragmented, oddly images and combining, overlapping, and putting them on canvases to create visual stories

Alexander Calder

American artist and sculptor

Andy Warhol

American artist who was a leading figure of pop-art and one of the icons of contemporary art

Jasper Johns

American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking

Jackson Pollock

American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

American pop artist Best known works: Drowning Girl, Whaam! and Look Mickey

___________ is considered a "total" art style, embracing architecture, graphic art, interior design, and most of the decorative arts including jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as well as the fine arts. According to the philosophy of the style, art should be a way of life. For many well-off Europeans, it was possible to live in an art nouveau-inspired house with art nouveau furniture, silverware, fabrics, ceramics including tableware, jewellery, cigarette cases, etc. Artists desired to combine the fine arts and applied arts, even for utilitarian objects.

Art Nouveau

________________is an international style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that was most popular during 1890-1910. English uses the French name ???????("new art"), but the style has many different names in other countries. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it was inspired by natural forms and structures, not only in flowers and plants, but also in curved lines. Architects tried to harmonize with the natural environment.

Art Nouveau

Post-Byzantine

Art produced by Eastern Orthodox Christians living in the Ottoman Empire

Byzantine art

Artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire.

How did Baroque differ from Renaissance art?

As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring

Gustav Klimt

Austrian Symbolist painter Best known work: The Kiss

Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)

Austrian artist and writer

What was a continuation of the Renaissance?

Baroque

How was Baroque characterized?

Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich color, and intense light and dark shadows.

Following their immersion in _____-theory, students entered specialized workshops, which included metalworking, cabinetmaking, weaving, pottery, typography, and wall painting. Although Gropius' initial aim was a unification of the arts through craft, aspects of this approach proved financially impractical. While maintaining the emphasis on craft, he repositioned the goals of the _________ in 1923, stressing the importance of designing for mass production. It was at this time that the school adopted the slogan "Art into Industry."

Bauhaus

The ____, a German word meaning "house of building", was a school founded in 1919. It was the most influential modernist art school of the 20th century, one whose approach to teaching, and understanding art's relationship to society and technology, had a major impact both in Europe and the United States long after it closed. It was shaped by the 19th and early 20th centuries trends such as Arts and Crafts movement, which had sought to level the distinction between fine and applied arts, and to reunite creativity and manufacturing.

Bauhaus

The _______(1919-1933) was founded in the city of Weimar by German architect Walter Gropius. Its core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts. Gropius explained this vision for a union of art and design in the Proclamation of the ______ (1919), which described a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression. Gropius developed a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers capable of creating useful and beautiful objects appropriate to this new system of living.

Bauhaus

The _________combined elements of both fine arts and design education. The curriculum commenced with a preliminary course that immersed the students, who came from a diverse range of social and educational backgrounds, in the study of materials, color theory, and formal relationships in preparation for more specialized studies. This preliminary course was often taught by visual artists, including Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), and Josef Albers, among others.

Bauhaus

The influence of the _____-on design education was significant. One of the main objectives of the _____- was to unify art, craft, and technology, and this approach was incorporated into the curriculum of the ______. The structure of the _______- Vorkurs (preliminary course) reflected a pragmatic approach to integrating theory and application. In their first year, students learn the basic elements and principles of design,color theory, plus experimented with a range of materials and processes. This approach to design education became a common feature of architectural and design school in many countries.

Bauhaus

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Best known sculptures: Pieta and David Best known paintings: scenes from Genesis and The Last Judgment

Salvador Dali

Best known works: The Persistence of Memory and his contemporary sculpture Homage to Newton

________ was the capital city of the Roman and Byzantine, the Latin, and the Ottoman empires. Following the Muslim conquest, the former bastion of Christianity in the east, Constantinople, was turned into the Islamic capital of the Ottoman Empire, under which it prospered and flourished again. After the founding of the modern Republic of Turkey —the successor state of the Ottoman Empire— the city was renamed Istanbul in 1923.

Constantinople

A primary influence that led to ______was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne, which were displayed in a retrospective at the 1907 Salon d'Automne. In ????? artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Cubism

________ is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, joined by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, František Kupka, Fernand Léger and Juan Gris that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. ____ has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.

Cubism

_______ can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that ______-"is the father of us all."

Cézanne

What is Dada? Is it an art movement? A way of thinking? Or is it all just strange words and quirky images?

Dada was an art movement and school founded and begun by a group of avant-garde artists in Zurich in the early 20th century who were dissatisfied about art, the war, and the world in general. And even though Dada brought about changes in art, it wasn't a traditional art movement.

______ rejected reason and logic, but prized nonsense, irrationality and intuition. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestos, art theory, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.

Dadaism

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter

_________ is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by Italian sculptor, painter, and architect Michelangelo.

David

In general, ________ proposed ultimate simplicity and abstraction, both in architecture and painting, by using only straight horizontal and vertical lines and rectangular forms. Furthermore, their formal vocabulary was limited to the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, and the three primary values, black, white, and grey. The works avoided symmetry and attained aesthetic balance by the use of opposition. This element of the movement embodies the second meaning of ____: "a post, jamb or support"; this is best exemplified by the construction of crossing joints, most commonly seen in carpentry.

De Stijl

______ was influenced by Cubist painting as well as by the mysticism and the ideas about "ideal" geometric forms (such as the "perfect straight line") in the neoplatonic philosophy of mathematician M. H. J. Schoenmaekers. The _____movement was also influenced by Neo-positivism. The works of _______would influence the Bauhaus style and the international style of architecture as well as clothing and interior design.

De Stijl

__________ (1917 - 1931), also known as Neo-plasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement and school of painting established by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam. Proponents of _______advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.

De Stijl

_______artists applied their style to a host of media in the fine and applied arts and beyond. Promoting their innovative ideas in their journal of the same name, the members envisioned nothing less than the ideal fusion of form and function, thereby making ______in effect the ultimate style. To this end, _____ artists turned their attention not only to fine art media such as painting and sculpture, but virtually all other art forms as well, including industrial design, typography, even literature and music. _____influence was perhaps felt most noticeably in the realm of architecture, helping give rise to the International Style of the 1920s and 1930s.

De Stijl

Jan Vermeer

Dutch painter Best known works: The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring

Jan van Eyck (1390- 1441)

Early Netherlands painter Painted secular and religious paintings. Best known paintings: Arnolfini Portrait and Ghent Altarpiece

Henry Moore

English surrealism sculptor and artist

____________ (1798-1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.

Eugène Delacroix

_________ was a modern artistic movement, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

Expressionism

The _____emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as Naturalism and Impressionism. The style originated principally in Germany and Austria. The ________ had many influences, among them Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and African art. They were also aware of the work being done by the Fauves in Paris, who influenced Expressionism's tendency toward arbitrary colors and jarring compositions. In reaction and opposition to French Impressionism, which emphasized the rendering of the visual appearance of objects, ___________ artists sought to portray emotions and subjective interpretations. It was not important to reproduce an aesthetically pleasing impression of the artistic subject matter, they felt, but rather to represent vivid emotional reactions by powerful colors and dynamic compositions.

Expressionist

________was a short-lived movement (1905-1908). Its influence was international and basic to the evolution of 20th century art. It was essentially an expressive style characterized by bold distortion of forms and exuberant color. The works of ???????artists, marked by audacious transpositions, forceful brushstrokes and the emotional use of color was inspired by Impressionism and the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Signac. The leading ?????? artists were Henri Matisse and André Derain.

Fauvism

Anthony van Dyck (1599 -1641)

Flemish Baroque artist One of the first painters to work mainly as a Court portraitist

Rembrandt van Rijn

Flemish Baroque painter

Peter Paul Rubens

Flemish Baroque painter Best known paintings: The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, c. and The Three Graces

Claude Monet

Founder of French Impressionist

Henri Matisse

French Fauvism artist Famous works: Open Window, Woman with a Hat, and The Joy of Life

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)

French Neoclassical painter Best known works: Grande Odalisque and The Turkish Bath

Paul Gauguin

French Post-Impressionist artist

Georges Seurat

French Post-Impressionist painter

Eugène Delacroix

French Romantic artist Mot famous work: Liberty Leading the People

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French artist Leader in Impressionist style

Paul Cézanne

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter

André Derain

French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse

Jean-Antoine Watteau

French painter Shifted Baroque style to more naturalistic

Gustave Courbet

French painter Led the Realist movement Best known works: The Artist's Studio and Nude Woman with a Dog

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

French painter in the Neoclassical style Best known work: The Death of Marat

Auguste Rodin

French sculptor Most famous work: The Thinker

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer associated with Dadaism and conceptual art

Who founded Neo-Impressionism?

Georges Seurat

Who developed pointillism?

Georges Seurat and Paul Signac

John Heartfield (1891-1968)

German Dadaist artist

Carlos Schwabe (1866 - 1926)

German Symbolist painter and print-maker

In many of the group's three-dimensional works, vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. Where can this be featured?

Gerrit Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair

Name three key figures of dadaism

Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, Max Ernst, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, and Kurt Schwitters.

During the emergence of Neo-Impressionism, Seurat and his followers strove to refine the impulsive and intuitive artistic mannerisms of __________

Impressionism

5. Raphael Sanzio

Italian Realism painter of the High Renaissance Best known work: The School of Athens

Michelangelo Caravaggio

Italian artist Had influence on Baroque movement Best known works: Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Judith and Holofernes

The height of Neoclassicism was displayed in the paintings of ___________and ______________

Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The improvement of oil paint and developments in oil-painting technique by Netherlandish artists such as ___________, Rogier van der Weyden and Hugo van der Goes led to its adoption in Italy from about 1475 and had ultimately lasting effects on painting practices, worldwide.

Jan van Eyck

Amedeo Modigliani

Jewish Italian painter and sculptor Known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures Best known works: Nu Couché au coussin Bleu, Red Nude, Dedie Hayden, and his sculpture Female Head 1011/1912

What was the most famous and controversial Dada artwork?

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain made in 1917

His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

Michelangelo Caravaggio

In the 1920s, art critic Roberto Longhi brought ??????? name once more to the foreground, and placed him in the European tradition: "Ribera, Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt could never have existed without him. And the art of Delacroix, Courbet and Manet would have been utterly different". The influential Bernard Berenson agreed: "With the exception of ????, no other Italian painter exercised so great an influence."

Michelangelo Caravaggio

_______- had a deep respect for Picasso as an artist. He used some aspects of Picasso's cubism, and the way Picasso would depict his artistic friends during his blue period would remain one of the main themes in ________own work. The strong influence of Paul Cezanne is also evident in his art.

Modigliani

Leonardo DaVinci

Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man

What was Rococo replaced by?

Neoclassic style (Neoclassicism 1750 - 1830)

________ artists incorporated classical styles and subjects, including columns, pediments, friezes, and other ornamental schemes in their work

Neoclassical

_____________painters took extra care to depict the costumes, settings, and details of classical subject matter with as much accuracy as possible. Much of the subject matter was derived from classical history and mythology. The movement emphasized line quality over color, light, and atmosphere.

Neoclassical

What movement emphasizes rationality and the resurgence of tradition?

Neoclassicism

_____________refers to the classical revival in European art, architecture, and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This period gave rebirth to the art of ancient Rome and Greece and the Renaissance as an opposition to the ostentatious Baroque and Rococo art that preceded the movement. Although the movement spread throughout Western Europe, France and England were the countries that used the style most frequently in their arts and architecture, using the classical elements to express ideas of nationalism, courage, and sacrifice

Neoclassicism

Stefan-Sagmeister

New York-based graphic designer and typographer Own design firm - Sagmeister & Walsh Inc

Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter and printmaker Best known work: The Scream (1893)

The _________, also historically referred to as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was a Sunni Islamic state founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia in 1299. With conquests in the Balkans by Murad I between 1362 and 1389, and the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the Ottoman sultanate was transformed into an empire.

Ottoman Empire

As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937),

Pablo Picasso

His work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1904-1906), the African-influenced Period (1907-1909), Analytic Cubism (1909-1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912-1919).

Picasso

_______, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

Picasso

The _________ (1498-1499) is a world-famous work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion.

Pietà

________ is an art movement in 1950s-1970s in Britain and the United States. _____ presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In ______, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of _______ refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Pop Art

_________ is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905; from the last ???????exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. _________ emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, _____________ encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat.

Post-Impressionism

Vincent van Gogh

Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch Best known works: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers and The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night

_________ (or naturalism) in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements. ???????art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution as a reaction to Romanticism and historical painting. In favor of depictions of 'real' life, the ?????painters used common laborers, and ordinary people in ordinary surroundings engaged in real activities as subjects for their works. The most influential ??????? painters are Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, and Ilya Repin.

Realism

______ marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the Early modern age. In many parts of Europe, Early_______ was created in parallel with Late Medieval art.

Renaissance art

__________ (1700-1760), or "Late Baroque", is a 18th-century artistic movement and style, affecting many aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, furniture design, decoration, literature, music, and theater. It developed in the early 18th century in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry, and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially of the Palace of Versailles.

Rococo

_____artists and architects used a more jocular, florid, and graceful approach to the Baroque. Their style was ornate and used light colors, asymmetrical designs, curves, and gold. Unlike the political Baroque, the _______ had playful and witty themes.

Rococo

__________ was a movement that was at its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century. It went against all logical and rational approaches and ventured into worlds unknown, that were perfect, surreal, and beautiful.

Romanticism

__________deals with a very idealistic view of life. Everything is perfect in a romantic world. ?????? art deals with a metaphorical approach to its work. Nothing is obvious but is vague and one has to delve within its depths to understand its true meaning. Highlighting the beauty in everything and focusing on the little things that make up life are certain aspects of ________ that make it stand out so vividly. The most famous ????? artists are Francisco Goya, Theodore Gericault, and Eugène Delacroix

Romanticism

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian painter

Nicolai Fechin

Russian-American painter known for his portraits and works featuring Native Americans

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)

Scottish sculptor and pop artist

Diego Velázquez

Spanish Golden Age painter Portrait artist of Baroque period Best known works: Vieja friendo huevos and Portrait of the eight-year old Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress.

Francisco Goya

Spanish Romantic painter Best known works: The Third of May 1808 and The Nude Maja

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright Most famous works: the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War

Joan Miro (1893-1983)

Spanish surrealist painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona

______ is an artistic movement originated in the late sixties and early seventies when artists began producing paintings that appeared to be photographs. In painting,______is synonymous to Photo-Realism. Also know as Hyper-realism, the movement was most popular in the United States but spread to some parts of Western Europe. In the sculpture medium, artists often used casts of the human figure to create true-to-form.

Superrealism

Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)

Swiss symbolist painter Best known work: Isle of the Dead

_______was a 19th-century art movement rejecting Realism. It expresses ideas over realistic descriptions of the natural world. __________initially developed as a French literary movement in the late 19th century, and it was soon identified with the artwork of a younger generation of painters who were similarly rejecting the conventions of Naturalism.

Symbolism

___________painters believed that art should reflect an emotion or idea rather than represent the natural world in the objective, quasi-scientific manner embodied by Realism and Impressionism.

Symbolist

What were Baroque artist focused on?

The Baroque artists were particularly focused on natural forms, spaces, colors, lights, and the relationship between the observer and the literary or portrait subject in order to produce a strong emotional experience.

Sandro Botticelli

The Birth of Venus and Primavera

Who wee the leaders of the Barbizon school?

Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet, and Charles-François Daubigny

Baroque

Used exaggerated motion Began 1600 in Rome

__________brilliant brushwork, graceful arrangement of elegant figures, and seemingly effortless displays of luxurious drapery occasionally make him appear a more superficial master than Rubens

Van Dyck's

Diego Velázquez

Who does this describe? From the first quarter of the nineteenth century, ?????? artwork was a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Edouard Manet. Since that time, more modern artists, including Spain's Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, as well as the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon, have paid tribute to ???? by recreating several of his most famous works.

Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Camille Pissarro.

Who were the leading Neo-Impressionists?

Title: Composition A (1920) Artist: Piet Mondrian

With its rectilinear forms made up of solid, outlined areas of color, the work reflects the artist's experimentation with Schoenmaekers's mathematical theory and search for a pared-down visual language appropriate to the modern era.

Alphonse Mucha

_____, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. ______spent many years working on what he considered his life's fine art masterpiece, The Slav Epic (Slovanská epopej), a series of twenty huge paintings depicting the history of the Czech and the Slavic people in general, bestowed to the city of Prague in 1928. He had wanted to complete a series such as this, a celebration of Slavic history, since he was young. From 1963 until 2012 the series was on display in the chateau in Moravský Krumlov the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic. Since 2012 the series has been on display at the National Gallery's Veletržní Palace. ________work has continued to inspire modern illustrators, designers, and artists.

Edvard Munch

________ (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and print-maker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.

Piet Mondrian

_________ (1872-1944) was a Dutch Neo-plasticist painter, and one of most important artists of 2oth century. He developed the language of the abstract paintings. As an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg, he evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-plasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which was painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.

Pointillism

a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image

What did expressionist artists seek?

meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.

The splendor of Byzantine art was always in the mind of early _________ and patrons, and many of the most important movements in the period were conscious attempts to produce art fit to stand next to both classical Roman and contemporary Byzantine art.

medieval Western artists

Ilya Repin

renowned Russian artist

Early Renaissance

time period in art falls between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the High Renaissance (1400-1500)

Modernism generally includes the following artistic movements/aspects

• Fauvism • Cubism • Expressionism • Abstract Art • Surrealism • Dadaism • Pop Art

Four Modern Masters Who Changed Our World:

• Henri Matisse • Pablo Picasso • Salvador Dali • Andy Warhol

The most influential modernist artists in the world

• Henri Matisse • Pablo Picasso • Salvador Dali • Piet Mondrian • Wassily Kandinsky • Henry Moore