What are art movements?
Why is Spongebob such a great
cartoon show?
What did that last question have to
do with art?
Claude Monet August Renoir
Berthe Morisot
Alfred Sisley
Erich Heckel Ludwig Kirchner
Emil Nolde Max Beckmann
Al Held
Josef Albers
Harriet Korman
Valerie Jaudon
What is an art movement?
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, or, at least, with the
heyday of the movement defined
within usually a number of years.
- Wikipedia
What do we need to ask ourselves?
• Form – What visual information do the
works have in common?
• Theme – What are the big ideas driving
these artists?
• Context – What is happening at the time
in which the art is made?
Examples of Impressionism
Claude Monet, London, Houses
of Parliament, The Sun Shining
Through the Fog, 1904
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Boating on the
Seine, 1879
Examples of Impressionism
Edgar Degas, Ballet Rehearsal on
Stage, 1874
Camille Pissarro, The Big Walnut Tree,
Flooding, Sunlight Effect, Eragny, 1892
Examples of Post-Impressionism
Paul Cezanne, Card Players, 1893
Paul Gauguin, Reo Ma’ohi,
1893
Examples of Post-Impressionism
Vincent van Gogh, Straßenarbeiter
1889
Emile Bernard, Breton Women
in the Meadow, 1888
Examples of Fauvism
Maurice de Vlaminck, The River Seine
at Chatou, 1906
Andre Derain, Charing Cross
Bridge, London, 1906
Examples of Fauvism
Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre, 1906
Examples of Cubism
Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Georges Braque, Still Life with Violin,
1911
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a
Staircase,
Examples of CUBISM
Pablo Picasso, Houses on a Hill, 1909
Pablo Picasso, Landscape at Ceret, 1911
Examples of CUBISM
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self –Portrait
with Model, 1906
Max Beckman, Family, 1920
Examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Emil Nolde, Crucifiction
Examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
Franz Marc, Yellow Cow
Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931 Rene Magritte, Collective Invention
Examples of SURREALISM
Max Ernst, Attirement of the Bride Yves Tanguy, sun in Jewel Case
Examples of SURREALISM
Willem DeKooning, Gotham News,
1955
Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952
Examples of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Philip Guston, Zone, 1954
Joan Mitchell
Examples of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Richard Hamilton,
Richard Lidner
Examples of POP ART
Wayne TiebaudAndy Warhol
Examples of POP ART
Frank Stella
Al Held, MO-T, 1970
Examples of GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION
Harriet Korman, Untitled, 2004 Josef Albers, Homage to the Square,
1959
Examples of GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION
Agnes Martin
Examples of Minimalism
Robert Morris
Examples of Minimalism
Richard Serra
John McCraken
Richard EstesMalcolm Morley
Examples of PHOTO-REALISM
Chuck Close
Duane Hanson
Examples of PHOTO-REALISM
Pablo Picasso
Frank Stella
Which of these paintings is an example of Cubism? Geometric
Abstraction?
Barnett Newman
Salvadore Dali
Which of these is an example of Surrealism? Abstract
Expressionism?
Peter Blake Janet Fish
Which is an example of Pop Art? Photo Realism?
These paintings all belong to a
“movement” known as Color Field
painting. The other artwork was by
Henri Matisse.
Mark Rothko
Morris Louis
Helen Frankenthaler
These paintings are all from a
“movement” known as
Impressionism (actually from the
19th century). The other painting
was by Edvard Munch, an
expressionist painter.
Edouard Manet
Georges Seurat
Edgar Degas
These paintings come from a
movement know as Post Graffiti.
The other artwork was from a 18th
century artist William Blake.
Keith Haring
Kenny
Schraf
Rodney Alan Greenblat
These are all from the Photo-Realist
movement. The other painting was
by Paul Cezanne.
Philip Pearlstein Audrey Flack
Don Eddy

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