AUGUSTE RENOIR

Art Movements - liked to paint human figures, especially, women

glowing with vitality and health
IMPRESSIONISM & SYMBOLISM CAMILLE PISSARRO
• A movement arose around 1863 in France - was called the “VILLAGE IMPRESSIONIST” because
• IMPRESSIONISM – applied to painting and music he painted peasant scenes
• SYMBOLISM – applied to literature - La Récolte des Foins, Eragny (1887)
- Haying at Eragny, 1889
IMPRESSIONISM - Resting-Harvesters
- Haymakers Resting
• characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible
brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate GEORGE SEURAT
depiction of light in its changing qualities - carried the technique of “Pointilism”
• common, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of (painting pure color out of tiny dots)
movement as a crucial element of human perception and -Seurat's La Parade de Cirque (side view guy)
experience, and unusual visual angles.
PAUL CEZANNE
- The lone artist / father of modern painting
CLAUDE MONET ( 1840-1926) - wanted to realize th rich, unbroken tones that belong to
nature without destroying the impression of depth
- leader of the movement
* the card players 1892
- concentrated on landscape depicting on sunlight
*apples n nude woman
playing on water

EXPRESSIONISM
-germany 20th century
-result of machine age
-characteristic : HARSH, BRUTAL, INTROSPECTIVE,
MORBID

VAN GOGH
-was strange, tormented genius, he thinks impressionist
shallow n lacks of emotion
-Dutch n genius artist
*“Crows in the Wheatfield”
*olive tress

ABSTRACT/ABSTRACTION
- Canonized by renaissance masters
- musician s – rule of tonality
PIET MONDRIAN
-Netherlands 1872
-works is – squares, rectangle and thick black lines
-has early experimentation w cubism (tree)

KADINSKY
-eliminated subjects
- work titles are: COMPOSITION or IMPROVISATION
-kinda like vector arts

CUBISM
-obkects- cubes then flatten into 2D shape I overlapping
planes
-started by PABLO PICASSO 1906

PABLO PICASSO
-father of cubism
-born in malaga, spain
*ladies of Avignon

SURREALISM
-most original school aft ww1
-elements of surprise
-JUXTAPOSITION -2 element to one concept

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