Neoclassicism

Started in Rome | A reaction against the excesses of the preceding Rococo style in France | Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur
Artist Jacques-Louis David
Painting
 Artificial Lighting
Characteristics
 The Death of Marat
 The Death of Socrates
Notable Works
 The Intervention of the Sabine Women
 The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Romanticism
French Revolution | Plight of the masses | Adoration of nature | Focuses on emotion | The triumph of imagination and individuality
Artist Eugène Delacroix Francisco Goya
Notable Works  Liberty Leading the People  The Third of May 1808
Realism
Against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism of Romanticism | Depicts people of all classes in situations that arise in ordinary
life | Celebrating working class and peasants
Artists Gustave Courbet Jean-François Millet
Painting  Industrial Setting
 Agricultural Setting
Characteristics
 The Stone Breakers
Notable Works  The Gleaners
 The Desperate Man
Modern Art
Impressionism
Capturing fleeting effects of natural light | Heavy brush strokes | Figures have no outline | Impressionists paint fast to capture the moment
Artists Claude Monet Édouard Manet Pierre-Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas
 Seascape
 Water lilies  Dappled light and  Dappled light and happy
Painting  Ballerinas
 Woman with a parasol unhappy party-time party-time people
Characteristics  Woman taking a bath
 Dappled light but no people  Social gatherings
figures
Notable Works  Impression, Sunrise  Olympia  Au Moulin De Galette
  Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
 The Water Lily Pond
(The Luncheon on the
 Woman with a Parasol –
Grass)
Madame Monet and
 A Bar at the Folies-
Her son
Bergère
Post-Impressionism
Emphasizes geometric forms | Unnatural color | Aesthetic Relativism
Artists Vincent van Gogh Paul Gauguin
 Colorful
Painting
 Swirls  Tahitian women
Characteristics
 Island feel
 The Starry Night
 Portrait of Dr. Gachet  When Will You Marry? – Most expensive painting in the
Notable Works
 Irises world
 Café Terrace at Night

Other Modern Art Movements

Artists Edvard Munch Henri Matisse Piet Mondrian Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Gustav Klimt
Expressionism
 Evokes moods
 De Stijl  Abstract
Painting or ideas Fauvism  Abstract
 Colored Expressionism  Symbolism
Characteristics  Heavier brush  Harsh colors Expressionism
squares  Action Painting
strokes
 reality
 The Kiss
 Portrait of
 Portrait of  No. 5, 1948
Adele Bloch-
Madame  Autumn
Notable Works  The Scream  White Center Bauer I
Matisse Rhythm
 Danaë
(Green Stripe) (Number 30)
 Adele Bloch-
Bauer II
Surrealism
painting dreams and exploring the unconscious
Artists Giorgio de Chirico Frida Kahlo Salvador Dali René Magritte
 The Disquieting Muses  The Persistence of  The Son of Man
 Mystery and Melancholy Memory  Rape
 The Two Fridas
of a Street  The Great Masturbator  The Lovers
Notable Works  The Broken Column
 Lobster Telephone  Not to be Reproduced
 The Wounded Deer
 Retrospective Bust of a  The False Mirror
Woman  The therapeutist
Pop Art
Artists Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Yayoi Kusama
Painting  Pumpkins
 Looks like comics
Characteristics  Polka Dots
 Campbell's Soup Cans  Drowning Girl
Notable Works
 Gold Marilyn Monroe  Girl with Ball