The Art Moment is a contemporary art movement characterized by its emphasis on experimentation, innovation, and boundary-pushing creativity. It encompasses a wide range of media, styles, and ideas, challenging conventional norms and igniting new forms of expression. It emerged in response to shifting societal values and technological advancements.

1. HISTORY OF ART MOVEMENTS

2. 1700-70 ROCCOCO ERA
• Era of Rococo Art and interior architectural design. Light, whimsical, decorative
style reflecting the decadence of the French Kings.
• In the world of Rococo, all art forms, including fine art painting, architecture,
sculpture, interior design, furniture, fabrics, porcelain and other "objets d'art"
are subsumed within an ideal of elegant prettiness
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1750-1800 NEOCLASSICISM
• Highpoint of the Grand Tour, and Era of Neoclassicism, a reaction against the
frivolity of the French court. Promoted a return to the values and steadfast
nobility of Classical Greece and Rome, whose principles of order and reason were
entirely in keeping with the European Age of Enlightenment.
• Neoclassicism was also, in part, a reaction against the ostentation of Baroque
art and the decadent frivololity of the decorative Rococo school.

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1750-1800 NEOCLASSICISM
• Neoclassical artists included painters Goya, Ingres and Jacques-Louis David,
sculptors Houdon, Canova and Thorvaldsen.
• Neoclassical architecture (buildings decorated by columns of Greek-style pillars,
and topped with classical Renaissance domes) dominate Europe and spread to
America (eg. US Capitol building).
Rotonde de la Villette
Bank of England US Capitol Building

5. • 1764 - Catherine the Great establishes
the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
• 1766 - Foundation of Christie's art
auctioneers by James Christie the Elder, in
London.
• 1768 - Foundation of the Royal Academy of
Arts in London.
• 1789 - Beginning of the French Revolution.
• 1793 - Opening of the Louvre Museum,
one of the world's greatest art museums.
• 1799 - Napoleon seizes power in France.
• 1799 - Invention of lithography (using a
matrix of fine-grained limestone) by the
Austrian printer Alois Senefelder.
• 1800 - Mid-point of English Figurative
Painting 18th/19th Century, soon to be
followed by the influential English School
of landscape painting.
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6. 1800-50 - Era of Romanticism
• Era of Romanticism in art, encouraged by the heroic ideals of the French
Revolution. French Romantics led by Eugene Delacroix. Other leading artists
included William Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner, Thomas Cole and
John Constable.
• Invention of machine made paper (made from linen and cotton rags) by the
Frenchman Nicholas Louis Robert.
• 1830 - Famous painting: Liberty Leading the People, by Delacroix.
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7. 1830-70 - Barbizon 'School’ Foutainebleau
School [Impressionism]
• School of French landscape painters working near Fontainebleau, led by
Theodore Rousseau; paved the way for Impressionism, the ultimate plein-air
painting movement. Other members included Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and
Honore Daumier. Other landscape plein-air painting schools emerge in Pont-Aven
(Brittany) & Concarneau. For other 19th century developments, see: Realism to
Impressionism (1830-1900).
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8. Realism
• Realism - one of the most important art movements of the modern era - grew up
as a result of the rapid changes in industrial and social conditions which occurred
during the course of the 19th century. Its rise was also influenced by the growing
importance of science and the corresponding decline of Romantic individualism.
Arguably the first real movement of Modern art, this new and prosaic idiom
of Realist painting led directly to Monet's Impressionism and, after, to the de-
coupling of painting from nature. Paradoxically, all this opened the door
to abstract art and the various strands of Expressionism which emerged in the
20th century.
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9. Naturalism
• In fine art panting, "naturalism" describes a true-to-life style which involves the
representation or depiction of nature (including people) with the least possible distortion
or interpretation. There is a quasi-photographic quality to the best naturalistic paintings: a
quality which requires a minimum amount of visual detail. "Modern" naturalism dates
from the affluence of the early 19th century, and was much influenced by the literary
fashion for authenticity - the term was first coined by the French writer Emile Zola.
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10. Naturalism
• It emerged first in English landscape painting, before spreading to France and then other
parts of Europe. Like all comparable styles, naturalism is influenced to a degree by
the aesthetics and culture, as well as the unavoidable subjectivism, of the artist. But it's a
question of degree - after all, no painting can be wholly naturalist: the artist is bound to
make tiny distortions to create his idea of a perfectly natural picture. Nevertheless if an
artist sets out with the clear aim of replicating nature, then a naturalist painting is the
most likely outcome.
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11. Impressionism
• Pure Impressionism, as advocated by Monet, was outdoor plein-air painting, characterized
by rapid, spontaneous and loose brushstrokes: supreme examples being his series of
paintings of Rouen cathedral, Waterloo Bridge, Gare Saint-Lazare, haystacks, and water
lilies. Its guiding principle was the realistic depiction of light; Impressionist artists sought to
capture fleeting moments, and if, during these moments, an object appeared orange - due
to the falling light or its reflection - then the artist painted the object orange. Or if the sun
turned the surface of a pond pink, then pink it would be. Naturalist colour schemes, being
devised in theory or at least in the studio, did not allow for this. Loose brushwork, coupled
with a non-naturalist use of colour, gave the movement a revolutionary edge, and opened
the way for movements such as Expressionism and Fauvism.
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12. Impressionism
• In their quest for truth, Impressionist painters aimed at the optical impression of what was
luminous and transitory, and as a result form became neglected. Though not understood
by the man in the street, Impressionism accorded with the evolution of contemporary
ideas. As soon as initial resistance had been overcome, the movement spread irresistibly
throughout the world. The success of the new style was so great that it quickly brought a
reaction in its trail. The artist's thought was being thwarted in favour of his vision. The
reaction took the form of Symbolism, which was to have an even greater effect on 20th-
century art than Impressionism, for it released art from its slavery to appearances.
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13. Impressionism
• Impressionists specialized in landscapes and genre scenes (eg. Degas' pictures of ballet
dancers and Renoir's nude figures). Portrait art was another popular genre among
Impressionist painters - it was after all one of their few regular sources of income - and
still-lifes were also painted.
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14. Impressionism
• Impressionists specialized in landscapes and genre scenes (eg. Degas' pictures of ballet
dancers and Renoir's nude figures). Portrait art was another popular genre among
Impressionist painters - it was after all one of their few regular sources of income - and
still-lifes were also painted.
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15. Impressionism
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Gare Sainte-Lazare – Claude Oscar Monet
Poppy Field (Argenteuil) – Claude Oscar Monet
Water Lilies (Nymphéas)

16. Manet - Impressionism
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Edouard Manet was the leader of the Impressionist movement. Manet's aesthetic and social background
was different from that of the other Impressionists; he never became fully integrated with the
movement. For him, Impressionism was little more than a passing experience; he felt sincerely enough
about it, nevertheless, and it affected the growth of his art. It would be better to describe Manet not as
the leader of the Impressionists, but as the leader of the revolutionary painters, those rejected by
the Salon and those rejected by society; he was the leader of a mixed group of artists who met at the
Cafe Guerbois in the Batignolles. Manet's famous paintings Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (1863)
and Olympia (1863) were in the style known as peinture claire, but they were not yet Impressionist.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere Dejeuner sur l'Herbe Olympia

17. Neo-Impressionism (1880s - Pointillism)
• The term Neo-Impressionism was first used in 1886 by the French art critic Felix Feneon to describe a
style of 19th-century Post-Impressionist painting, pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891). This
style of Post-Impressionism used a new technique of "colour-mixing" known as Pointillism (a specific
form of Divisionism). In simple terms, instead of mixing different colours on a palette and then
applying them to the canvas, Neo-Impressionist artists applied different primary colours to the
canvas - in groups of tiny dots (points) - and then allowed the viewer's eye to do the "mixing." This
Pointillist painting method was used to boost the luminosity of the colour pigments.
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte (1884-6)
Bathers at Asnieres (1883-4) Young Woman Powdering
Herself

18. Pointillism (c.1884-1900)
• Pointillism refers only to the type of mark made on the canvas (the dot). On might just as
easily call it "dottism". The actual theory of mixing paint-pigments optically, rather than on
a palette, is known as Divisionism (or Chromoluminarism).
• in reality, the dots of pure unmixed colour are not actually combined by the human eye,
which still sees them as separate colours. However, they do appear to oscillate or vibrate,
creating a type of shimmer.
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The Boulevard Montmartre at Night View of Bazincourt, Sunset, 1892 Landscape

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20. Fauvism
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Luxe, Calme et Volupté The Parakeet and the Mermaid
Woman with a Hat,
• The term Fauvism refers to a highly fashionable, if short-lived, art movement associated with the Ecole
de Paris, which formed around friendships between French artists around the turn of the century.
Famous above all for their bold use of color, the 'Fauves' received their name at the 1905 Salon
d'Automne exhibition in Paris, from the influential French art critic Louis Vauxcelles, who insultingly
described their vividly coloured canvases as being the work of wild beasts (in French, fauves), and the
name stuck.
•This movement tried to go beyond the mere imitation of nature as practised by Impressionists, Fauvism
is an early form of expressionism, since its use of colour is non-naturalistic and often garish

21. Expressionism
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22. Modern art movements
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23. Symbolism
• Considered part of Post-Impressionism, Symbolist artists, writers, and musicians
emphasized on mystical, romantic, and expressive themes as a means of escaping
contemporary moralism, rationalism, and materialism. Artists such as Edvard Munch and
Gustave Moreau developed new ways to express psychological truth, giving form to the
spiritual reality behind the physical world, evidenced in paintings of dream worlds,
melancholy, and death.
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Paul Gauguin

24. Edvard Munch
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25. James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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26. Expressionism
• Reacting against Impressionism, but influenced by Symbolism, the Expressionists focused on
communicating spirituality and feeling in art. Drawn simultaneously to primitivism and to modern
life, they employed distorted imagery and a rich palette to convey profound emotion. Art now
came from within the artist, not the external world. On the canvas, swirling, swaying, and
exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes revealed turbulent inner states or the mysteries of nature. The
movement also often recorded social criticism of the modern city, depicting alienated modern
individuals
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27. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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28. Franz Marc
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29. Franz Marc
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30. Wassily Kandinsky
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32. Cubism
• The approach was a radical break and offered a new way of describing space, volume and
mass with new pictorial devices. More generally, it pointed new paths towards abstract
art, and suggested ways of describing life in the modern urban world. It abandoned
perspective and realistic modeling - representing bodies in small, tilted planes, set in a
shallow space. Following the examples of Picasso and Braque, the Salon Cubists used
these innovations to create many interesting effects.
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Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1909)
Georges Braque Bottle and Fishes
(1910-12)
Fernand Léger Three Women (Le Grand
Déjeuner) (1921)