ART MOVEMENTS ISM’S

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Chronological Order

◦ Mannerism (mid 1500s)

◦ Neo classism (mid 1700s)

◦ Romanticism (late 1700s- early 1800s)

◦ Realism (France, mid 1800s)

◦ Impressionism (late 1800s)

◦ Post Impressionism (very late 1800s and into the turn of the 20th century)

◦ Symbolism (Turn of the twentieth century)

◦ Cubism (first two decades of 1900s)

◦ Surrealism (birth in 1924)

◦ Abstract Expressionism (birth in 1940s)

Art Movements- ISM’s

◦ An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time.

◦ As the names of many art movements use the -ism suffix (for example cubism and mannerism), they are sometimes referred to as isms

Details from Lascaux

caves paintings

Mannerism

Mannerism

◦ Mannerism is a period of European art that

emerged from the later years of the Italian High

Renaissance around 1520.

Ignudi from Michelangelo's

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Mannerism

◦ Mannerism encompasses a variety of

approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the

harmonious ideals associated with artists.

◦ Mannerism is notable for its intellectual

sophistication as well as its artificial (as opposed

to naturalistic) qualities.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Battaglia di Anghiari

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

◦ Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in

the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music,

and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical"

art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.

◦ It was born in Rome in the mid-18th century, but its

popularity spread all over Europe.

◦ Neoclassicism is a revival of the styles and spirit of classic

antiquity inspired directly from the classical period, which

coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy

and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment.

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatti, 1784

Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris, 1790

The artist moved to despair at the grandeur of antique fragments, 1778–79

Romanticism

Romanticism

◦ Romanticism (also the Romantic era from 1800 to

1850 ) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual

movement that originated in Europe toward the

end of the 18th century.

◦ Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis

on emotion and individualism as well as

glorification of all the past and nature.

◦ Romanticism assigned a high value to the

achievements of "heroic" individualists and artists,

whose examples, it maintained, would raise the

quality of society.

Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818

Realism

◦ REALISM led by Courbet ,was an artistic movement

that began in France in the 1850s.

◦ It sought to portray real and typical contemporary

people and situations with truth and accuracy.

◦ Its work depicted people of all classes in situations

that arise in ordinary life.

Realism

Old Barrister

bridge –james abott

Stone Breakers – Gustave

Courbet

Realism

Impressionism

◦ Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated

with a group of Paris-based artists

◦ Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small,

thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on

accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities

◦ inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human

perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

IMPRESSIONISM

IMPRESSIONISM

◦ It is an art of immediacy and movement, of

candid poses and compositions, of the play of

light expressed in a bright and varied use of

colour.

Post-

Impressionism

POST-IMPRESSIONISM◦ Post-Impressionism developed from Impressionism. during

the 1880s.

◦ Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-impressionism,

Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism,

some later Impressionists' work

Henri Rousseau

Paul GauguinCharles Laval

Post-Impressionism

Paul SignacTheo Van Henri

Symbolism

SYMBOLISM

◦ SYMBOLISM was a late 19th century art movement

of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and

other arts.

◦ The name "symbolist" itself was first applied by the

critic Jean Moréas, who invented the term to

distinguish the symbolists from the related decadents

of literature and of art.

◦ The term "symbolism" is derived from the word

"symbol" which derives from the Latin symbolum, a

symbol of faith, and symbolus, a sign of recognition.

Victor Vasnetsov, The Knight at the Crossroads Mikhail Nesterov’s, The Vision of the

Youth Bartholomew

Three musicians (1921)

Cubism-THE FIRST FORM OF ABSTRACT ART

◦ CUBISM was a 20th century art movement, pioneered by

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized

European painting and sculpture, and inspired related

movements in music and literature.

What is CUBISM?

Pablo Picasso Georges Braque

CUBISM-The Movement

1. Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in

France.

2. Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained

vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained

popularity.

CUBISM-Characteristics

1.Objects are shown from multiple perspectives at once.

2.Everything is portrayed with geometric shapes.

3.It portrayed a “new way of seeing,” which infused

observations and memories into paintings.

Some Examples of Cubist Painting

Portrait of Daniel-

Henry by Picasso

Still Life with Fruit Dish and

Mandolin, by Juan Gris

Women with a Guitar by

Georges Braque

Surrealism

SURREALISM◦ SURREALISM is a cultural movement that began in the early

1920s

◦ is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

◦ Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from

everyday objects and developed painting techniques

The Elephant celebes by Max

Ernest

The women

with her

throat cut –

by Alberto

Giacometti

SURREALISM• Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected

juxtapositions and non sequitur

• Surrealism developed largely out of the Dada activities

during World War I and the most important center of themovement was Paris.

Automatic drawing

; by Andre Masson

The red tower

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Mountains and Sea

-Helen Frankenthaler

What is ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM?

• ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM was an art movement by Arshile

Gorky whose paintings were derived from the art of

Surrealism, Picasso, and Miro.

• The movement originated in New York’s Greenwich Village

in the mid-1940’s.

• The movement's name is derived from the combination of

the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German

Expressionists.

• Paintings usually contained a lot of orange or blue.

• Not only painters, but sculptors, photographers and filmmakers were apart of the movement.

Abstract Expressionalism had two streams:

1.Action Painting

(late 1940’s – late 1950’s)

Untitled byFranz Kline

The Moon Woman byJackson Pollock

Who's Afraid of Red,

Yellow and Blue?By

Barnett NewmanWhite Center by

Mark Rothko

2. Color Field and Hard-Edge Painting (early 1960’s)