STYLE CHARACTERISTIC FAMOUS MAJOR S ARTIST ARTWORK / DESCRIPTION S It is characterized by 1. Jean-Antoine 1. Pilgrimage to lightness, elegance, and an Watteau Cythera (1717) ROCOCO exuberant use of curving natural forms in 2. François 2. Triumph of ornamentation. Boucher Venus (1740) The word Rococo is derived from the French word rocaille, which 3. Giambattista 3. The Marriage of denoted the shell-covered Tiepolo the Emperor rock work that was used to Frederick and decorate artificial grottoes. Beatrice of Burgundy (1751– 52)
refers to a late nineteenth-
century and early NATURALIS twentieth-century literary 1. Thomas Cole 1. Sunrise in the movement whose Catskills (1826 ) M practitioners used the techniques and theories of 2. Jean-Baptiste- 2. View of the Forest science to convey a Camille Corot of Fontainebleau truthful picture of life. (1830 ) The characteristics of naturalism include a 3. Marie carefully detailed Bashkirtseff 3. The Meeting presentation of modern ( 1884 ) society, often featuring lower-class characters in an urban setting or a panoramic view of a slice of contemporary life; a deterministic philosophy that emphasizes the effects of heredity and environment; characters who act from passion rather than reason and show little insight into their behavior; and plots of decline that show the characters’ descent as the inevitable result of the choices they have made. Impressionism describes a style of painting developed in France 1. Édouard 1. (Music in the IMPRESSION during the mid-to-late 19th Manet Tuileries, 1862) century; 2. (At the Races, ISM characterizations of the style 2. Edgar Degas 1877–1880, oil on include small, visible canvas, by Edgar brushstrokes that offer the bare Degas, Musée impression of form, unblended 3. Pierre-Auguste d'Orsay, Paris) color and an emphasis on the Renoir 3. (Pont-Neuf, 1872) accurate depiction of natural light. style of painting that flourished in France around the turn of the 1. Georges 1. Jeu de Massacre FAUVISM 20th century. Rouault (Game of CHARACTERISTICS OF Carnage; 1905) FAUVISM: 2. Henri Matisse 2. The Joy of Life Use of colour for its own sake, as a (Bonheur de viable end in art. Vivre; 1906) 3. André Derain 3. Landscape Near Rich surface texture, with awareness Cassis (Pinède à of the paint. Cassis; 1907)
Spontaneity – lines drawn on canvas,
and suggested by texture of paint.
Use of clashing (primary) colours,
playing with values and intensities.
Varied subject matter – picking out
elements of genre scenes, landscapes, inside studios, etc.
The colour and the object painted was
the real subject, whether still life, landscape, etc. Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality 1. Marc Chagall 1. I and the Village CUBISM invented in around 1907–08 by (1911) artists Pablo Picasso and 2. Tea Time (1911) 2. Jean Metzinger Georges Braque. 3. Guernica (1937) flat, two-dimensional surface of 3. Pablo Picasso the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro and refuting time-honoured theories that art should imitate nature. the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the 1. Edvard Munch 1. The Scream EXPRESSION subjective emotions and responses that objects and 2. Ernst Ludwig 2. Street, Berlin ISM events arouse within a person. Kirchner ( 1913 ) The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and 3. Chaim Soutine 3. Mad Woman fantasy and through the vivid, ( 1920 ) jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
a cultural movement that was
expressed through art, 1. Max Ernst 1. Ubu Imperator SURREALIS literature, and even politics. (1923 ) is an artistic movement stressing 2. Yves Tanguy M on the artists subconscious, 2. ndefinite where the artist focuses on their Divisibility (1942 imagination, for imagery or to 3. Remedios Varo exploit unexpected Uranga juxtapositions. These 3. Celestial Pablum ( juxtapositions are unexpected, 1858 ) because the appearance of the forms/subjects don’t look real, and oppose reality. characteristic of Surrealism is that the artist relies on their unconscious, but reality and the conscious combines with this state of consciousness when the unconscious finds a way to express the reality and render it into the canvases that these artists make.