ART STYLES

CLASSICISM
It refers to the style of the ancient
Greek and Roman artists. It
connotes art that is elegant and
refined, marked by order and
symmetry. Classical art is dignified
and simple.
CLASSICIST PAINTERS

Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

Raphael
REALISM

An attempt to describe human

behavior and surroundings or to
represent figures and objects
exactly as they act or appear in
life
Realism
Realism is a style of
art that depicts what
the eye can see. It
tries to capture every
day people doing
every day ordinary
things.

The Old Violin by William Harnett

Realism
Examples of
Realism can be
found throughout
art history. Greek
sculptures carved
lifelike replicas of
their models, like
this old peasant
woman.
Realism
Other examples Painters in the
of Realism 17th century like
artists include Caravaggio
the Spanish brought a new
artist Diego realism to their
Velázquez . . . work, instead of
painting
idealized figures.

The Maids of Honor

by Diego Velázquez
Realism
. . . and
Dutch
painters like
Rembrandt.

The Night Watch

by Rembrandt van Rijn
 Realism
Some
other
Realists
include
French
Artist
Jean-
François
Millet,
The Gleaners
by Jean-François Millet
 Realism
Some
other
Realists
include
French
Artist
Jean-
François
Millet,
The Gleaners
by Jean-François Millet
Realism

. . . and
American
artist
Edward
Hopper.

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

Realism

. . . and
American
artist
Edward
Hopper.

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

REALIST PAINTERS

Marie Rosalie Bonheur

Gustave Corbert

Wilhelm Leibl
MANNERISM

Mannerists typically painted figures

using contorted or twisting poses and
foreshortening or elongation, a
technique for achieving the illusion
of forms projecting into space for
purposes of elegance.
MANNERIST PAINTERS
Donatello

Doménikos Theotokópoulos

Jacopo da Pontormo

Rosso Fiorentino
SURREALISM

Explored and celebrated the

realm of dreams and the
unconscious mind
Surrealism
Surrealism was started
in the 1920s. Paintings
focus on things found in
the imagination or
fantasy. You might find
every day objects, but
they aren’t doing every
day things.

The Son of Man by Rene Magritte

 Surrealism

Fantastic visual imagery from

the subconscious mind.
Surrealism
Belgian artist, Rene
Magritte selected many
objects in and around
his home for his work.

They can still be viewed

in his home, now a
museum in Brussels.

Time Transfixed by Rene Magritte

Surrealism

Golconde
by Rene Magritte
Surrealism

Golconde, Clairevoyance, and the Red Model

by Rene Magritte
Surrealism

Golconde, Clairevoyance, and the Red Model

by Rene Magritte
Surrealism
Spanish artist,
Salvador Dali, is
the name that first
comes to mind for
many people when
they think of
Surrealism.
His moustache is as
famous as his art.
Surrealism

Even if you have

never heard of
Surrealism, you The Persistence of Memory
by Salvador Dali
may have seen
Dali’s work.
Surrealism

The Persistence of Memory

by Salvador Dali

Celestial Elephants
by Salvador Dali
Surrealism

The Persistence of Memory

by Salvador Dali

Self Portrait
by Salvador Dali
Celestial Elephants
by Salvador Dali
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) Metaphysical Interior with Factory
Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
Indefinite Divisibility
Dorothea Tanning (1910-) Ein klein nachtmusik
Salvador Dali
(1904-1989)
SURREALIST PAINTERS

Salvador Dali

René Magritte

Joan Miró
CUBISM
Cubist paintings create an
ambiguous sense of space through
geometric shapes that flatten and
simplify form, spatial planes that are
broken into fragments, and forms
that overlap and penetrate one
another.
Cubism
Cubism was a
movement that
began in France
in the early 20th
Century by Picasso

Spanish artist
Pablo Picasso
and French artist
Georges Braque.
Cubism
Cubism was a
movement that
began in France
in the early 20th
Century by Picasso

Spanish artist
Pablo Picasso
and French artist
Georges Braque.

Braque
Cubism
Cubism rejected the idea
of using perspective to
create art as seen in
nature. It was geometric
and two dimensional.

Objects were broken

apart and the pieces Can you guess what this is?

could be viewed from all

sides.
Cubism
Cubism rejected the idea
of using perspective to
create art as seen in
nature. It was geometric
and two dimensional.

Objects were “broken

apart” and the pieces Violin and Candlestick by Braque

could be viewed from all

sides.
Cubism
Picasso is
best known
for Cubism.
In some of
his pieces
objects are
geometrical
but still easily
identified.
Enamel Saucepan by Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Other pieces
are a little more
of a challenge
to identify – but
there are clues.

Can you
identify what is
here?
Cubism
Other pieces
are a little more
of a challenge
to identify – but
there are clues.

Can you
identify what is
here?
Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Some pieces
are impossible
to figure out.
But, they make
for interesting
conversation.

What is this?
Cubism
Some pieces
are impossible
to figure out.
But, they make
for interesting
conversation.

What is this?

A Portrait of David-Henry Kahnweiler

by Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Cubism was
popular in the
Czech Republic.
It inspired
work in
architecture,
pottery, and
furniture. Cubism Museum
Prague,
Czech Republic
Cubism
Cubism was
popular in the
Czech Republic.
It inspired
work in
architecture,
pottery, and
furniture. Cubism Museum
Prague,
Czech Republic
Cubism
Georges Braques,
(1882-1963), was
the artist responsible
for the actual title
Cubism, thanks to
his painting Houses
at L'estaque, painted
in 1908 as an oil on
canvas.
CUBIST PAINTERS

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Paul Cezanne
Impressionism
An attempt to accurately and
objectively record visual
reality in terms of transient
effects of light and colour.
IMPRESSIONISM

To achieve the appearance of

spontaneity, impressionist
painters used broken
brushstrokes of bright, often
unmixed colors.
Impressionism
It’s really hard to give
the definition of
Impressionism without
using the word
“impression”.
Light was important to
the Impressionists.
They wanted to
capture the moment.
Woman with a Parasol by Claude Monet
Impressionism
Light on objects and the
shadows around them
change during the day.
Impressionists wanted
capture the way light
changed colors in their
surroundings. That’s
how they captured the
moment.
Shepherdess by Camille Pissarro
 Impressionism
Many of the Impressionists
were from France where
Dancers in Pink
the movement started in
by Edgar Degas the 1860s.
At first the public did not
like their work. One
newspaper critic called
their work sketches or
impressions, but not
finished pieces.
 Impressionism
Boating
by Edouard Manet

Dancers in Pink
by Edgar Degas

Times change and now the

Impressionists are among the
world’s most popular artists.
 Impressionism
Boating
by Edouard Manet

Dancers in Pink
by Edgar Degas

Girl with a
Watering Can
By Pierre-
Auguste Renoir
Impressionism
One of the central
artists associated with
Impressionism was
Claude Monet.

Monet’s painting,
Impression, Sunrise,
inspired the name of
the movement.

Claude Monet
Impressionism
Impression, Sunrise
By Claude Monet
Impressionism
Visiting his
home and
garden in
Giverny, is like
walking inside
his paintings.

The water lilies

are still there.
Impressionism

Water Lilies by Claude Monet

 Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)
The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1825-1905) The Knitting Girl
Claude Monet (1840-1926) Houses of Parliament
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Madame Charpentier and Her Children
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) The Chestnut Trees at Osny
[note: Impressionist “martyr”]
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) In a Park
Note: Manet Influence
Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) Sunset at Ivry
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The Rehearsal
Edouard Manet (1832-1833) Luncheon on the Grass
Post-impressionism
Post-Impressionism is an umbrella
term used to describe a variety of
artists who were influenced by
Impressionism but took their art in
different directions.
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) Mont-St-Victoire (1885)
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Spirit of the Dead Watching
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Van Gogh – Night Cafe
Van Gogh – Starry Night
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau (1844-1910) The Dream
 Expressionism

Expressionism is a style of art in which

the intention is not to reproduce a
subject accurately, but instead to
portray it in such a way as to express
the inner state of the artist.
EXPRESSIONISM

Strives to express subjective

feelings and emotions rather
than to depict reality or nature
objectively
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) – Couple Riding
Franz Marc (1880-1916) – Yellow Cow
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) - Nude -- Caryatid
Edvard Munch (1863-1944 )
Dead Mother
Gershon Iskowitz (1921-1988 ) Sky
Kathe Kollwitz
(1867-1945 )
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
EXPRESSIONIST PAINTERS

Edvard Munch

Vincent Van Gogh

El Greco
 Fauvism
Short lived movement but one that
marked the advent of Modernism. The
style of painting, using non-naturalistic
colors, was one of the first avant-garde
developments in European art.
 FAUVISM

The fauves rejected the

impressionist palette of soft,
shimmering tones in favor of the
violent colors
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) The Joy of Life
FAUVIST PAINTERS

Henri Matisse

Andre Derain

Raoul Dufy
Pointillism
Pointillism, just as it sounds, is
a style of art using only dots.
French Artist Georges Seurat,
the founder of this movement in
the 1880s, preferred the name
Divisionism.
It was the critics of this
movement that gave it the
Georges Seurat name Pointillism.
Pointillism
When viewed from a
distance, the eye
blends the dots, in a
process called optical
blending.
Even though no
orange paint was
used, red and yellow
create the effect.
The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat
Pointillism

Seurat
began as
a more
traditional
painter
and later
developed
Pointillism.
The Bathers at Asnières by Georges Seurat
Pointillism
Pointillism
required
so much
patience.
His most
famous
piece, took
two years!

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

by Georges Seurat
Pointillism
Seurat
made over
3 million
dots on
this piece!

3,456,000
dots one
at a time!
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
by Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) [neo-impressionist]
 Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an elegant

decorative art style characterized
by intricately detailed patterns of
curving lines.
Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)
Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
 Symbolism
Late 19th c. movement that influenced many
modern trends. A reaction against
naturalism and realism, symbolism favors
spirituality, imagination and dreams.
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Smiling Spider
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898 )
DADAISM

Dada is often described as

nihilistic—that is,
rejecting all moral values.
DADAIST PAINTERS

Marcel Duchamp

Tristan Tzara

Jean Arp