Art Appreciation

• Art Movement


  A collective title given to artworks which share the same artistic ideals, style, technical approach or timeframe
• Art Movements are simply a historical convenience for grouping together artists of a certain period or style so that they may be understood within a specific context
• Naturalism


  A movement in literature that developed out of realism, emphasizing how instinct and environment affect human behavior
• Hay Making


  • Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage
  • View of the Forest of Fontainebleau, Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
• Humanism


  A program to revive the cultural—and particularly the literary—legacy and moral philosophy of classical antiquity
• Michelangelo Bounarroti, "Pieta"


  • 1498, Depicts the Virgin Mary holding her son Jesus Christ in her lap after he was removed from the cross

  
• Impressionism


  Paintings of this style are the personal impression of the artist on the subject matter, focusing on the effect of light rather than details

  
• Impressionist Painting


  • Uses thick, quick and short brush strokes, with colors applied on top of each other instead of being mixed before application
  • Famous artists: Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  
• Post-Impressionism


  An art movement that developed in the 1890s, characterized by a subjective approach to painting, as artists opted to evoke emotion rather than realism
• Post-Impressionism


  • Continued using vivid colors, thick application of paint and real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, distort forms for an expressive effect and use unnatural and seemingly random colors

  
• Cubism


  A highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century, created principally by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane and rejected traditional techniques of perspective, foreshortening, modeling, and chiaroscuro

  
• Cubism


  • Artists used multiple vantage points to fracture images into geometric forms, depicting figures as dynamic arrangements of volumes and planes where background and foreground merged
• Fauvism


  A style of painting that flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century, using pure, brilliant color aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas

  
• Fauvism


  • Valued individual expression, the artist's direct experience of subjects, emotional response to nature, and intuition over academic theory or elevated subject matter
  • Radical use of unnatural colors
  • Creating a strong, unified work that appears flat on the canvas
  • Showing the individual expressions and emotions of the painter
  • Bold brush strokes using paint straight from the tube

  
• Expressionism


  Art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it expressive of the artist's inner feelings or ideas
• Expressionist Art


  • Often employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world
• Dadaism or Dada


  A form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time, embracing elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics
• Dadaism


  • Focused on creating works that would overturn the middle-class norms about what an artist was and their ideals about what art should be, utilizing regular items that could be created or purchased and introduced as art
  • Humorous
  • Creative Freedom
  • Not Rational
  • Reactive
• Surrealism


  An artistic movement that sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination, creating imagery that was impossible in reality by juxtaposing unlikely forms onto unimaginable landscapes
• Surrealism has never disappeared as a creative artistic principle
• Pop Art


  An art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture, characterized by the imagery of consumerism, mass reproduction, the media and popular culture
• Different cultures and countries contributed to the Pop Art movement during the 1960s and 70s