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