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

 Josef Albers
Al Held

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 Pierre Auguste Renoir, Boating on the

of Parliament, The Sun Shining Seine, 1879
Through the Fog, 1904
 Examples of Impressionism

Edgar Degas, Ballet Rehearsal on Camille Pissarro, The Big Walnut Tree,
Stage, 1874 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

 Examples of CUBISM

Georges Braque, Still Life with Violin, Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a
1911 Staircase,
 Examples of CUBISM

Pablo Picasso, Houses on a Hill, 1909

Pablo Picasso, Landscape at Ceret, 1911

 Examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

Max Beckman, Family, 1920

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self –Portrait
with Model, 1906
 Examples of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

Franz Marc, Yellow Cow

Emil Nolde, Crucifiction
 Examples of SURREALISM

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 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952

Willem DeKooning, Gotham News,
1955
 Examples of ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Philip Guston, Zone, 1954

Joan Mitchell
 Examples of POP ART

Richard Hamilton,
Richard Lidner
 Examples of POP ART

Andy Warhol Wayne Tiebaud

 Examples of GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

Al Held, MO-T, 1970

Frank Stella
 Examples of GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

Harriet Korman, Untitled, 2004 Josef Albers, Homage to the Square,

1959
 Examples of Minimalism

Robert Morris
Agnes Martin
 Examples of Minimalism

Richard Serra

John McCraken
 Examples of PHOTO-REALISM

Malcolm Morley Richard Estes

 Examples of PHOTO-REALISM

Duane Hanson
Chuck Close
Which of these paintings is an example of Cubism? Geometric
Abstraction?

Frank Stella

Pablo Picasso
Which of these is an example of Surrealism? Abstract
Expressionism?

Salvadore Dali
Barnett Newman
Which is an example of Pop Art? Photo Realism?

Peter Blake Janet Fish

 Morris Louis
Mark Rothko

These paintings all belong to a

“movement” known as Color Field
painting. The other artwork was by
Henri Matisse.

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
 Kenny
Schraf

Keith Haring

These paintings come from a

movement know as Post Graffiti.
The other artwork was from a 18th
century artist William Blake.

Rodney Alan Greenblat

These are all from the Photo-Realist
movement. The other painting was
by Paul Cezanne.

Don Eddy

Philip Pearlstein Audrey Flack