Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism and Cubism
Fauves
"scandalized with color the whole of Europe" by using vibrant colors that didn't match the objects they painted which was "chaotic"
Pablo Picasso
cubist; "I paint objects as I think them, not as i see them" meant he took apart his objects to analyze them in shape or form
Paul Cezanne
cubist; developed cubism by using more forms and works looked heavy; looked for forms in his subjects
Fernand Leger
cubist; factories, stairs and tinman like objects condensed in the painting
Marcel Duchamp
cubist; factories, stairs and tinman like objects condensed in the painting like Leger
Juan Gris
cubist; painted cafes
Piet Mondrian
cubist; painted highly abstract, seemingly aerial views of Holland and New York City
Georges Braque
cubist; showed all sides of objects to show time or personalities like picasso; paintings like modern jazz like picasso
Robert Delaunay
cubist; try to free cubism from its usual palette of browns, blues and grays with "stained glass colors"
Expressionism
expressed or made people feel things
Edvard Munch
expressionist; "i hear the scream in nature" meant he had childhood trauma that he expressed through his paintings with sad people/colors; art influenced by cold winters; inspired german artists to rebel against the government through paintings
Ernst Kirchner
expressionist; belonged to a group called the The Bridge (between France and Germany) that showed the coming together of the countries; used v-shapes to express anxiety and nervousness
Franz Marc
expressionist; member of Der Blaue Reiter (the blue rider); created a "shelter of color" for the animals he painted; paintings became more fragmented and his animals more tormented as he didn't like the government
Wassily Kandinsky
expressionist; painted predictable, traditional landscapes early on then he adopted abstract art; used color to make people feel things
Alexei von Jawlensky
expressionist; rainbow faces; shapes
Max Beckmann
expressionist; scenes of people packed into suffocatingly tight spaces bc of his experience as an orderly during WW2
Raoul Dufy
fauve; "gentle fauve" bc he used light toned colors and gentle shapes
Henri Matisse
fauve; "king of the Fauves" bc he did his own thing with aspects of Van Gogh and Gauguin
Vincent Van Gogh
fauve; expressed turbulent, sometimes violent emotions in his paintings by using quick brush strokes, curved lines and complementary colors that made contrast
Maurice de Vlaminck
fauve; most influenced by Van Gogh; had wilder brush strokes and darker colors that Van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
fauve; painted Tahitian life; used color from his imagination
Andre Derain
fauve; painted several portraits of Matisse and many landscapes/riverscapes of England/France; influenced by Gauguin bc he used colors from his imagination
Georges Seurat
impressionist-ish; characterized as a pointillist
Eduoard Manet
impressionist; "father of modern art"; paintings had plain people
Edgar Degas
impressionist; dancers were frequent subjects of his paintings bc he was intrigued by their grace; didn't hide his sketch marks to show good sketching skills and movement
Claude Monet
impressionist; painted same subject to explore color at different times
Auguste Renoir
impressionist; said "skin is never yellow, black, red, or white but blue, orange and lavender"
Mary Cassatt
impressionist; used quick strokes, bright color and played with lighting like fellow impressionists; common themes of women/children
Abstract Art
isn't necessarily or attempt to be real but tries to get that effect by using forms or shapes
Van Gogh and Gauguin
liberated with color the work of their successors by using colors in a way that wasn't accepted at the time
Impressionism
painters explored different types of lighting and the colors that came with
Cubism
paintings made of forms and looking at all sides of the subject; influenced by psychology, new technologies, and European Art
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
post-impressionist painter; master of poster design
Japanese Diagonals
technique Manet and other Impressionists borrowed from Japanese artists
Pointillism
using dots and circles to create an image