20th Century

Art Movements
20th Century Art Movements:

1.Impressionism
2.Expressionism
3.Abstractionism
4.Abstract Expressionism
5.Contemporary Art Forms
 ANALYSIS
Guide Question:

Describe how your group

classified/paired the pictures. What was your
basis in grouping the pictures of the art
works?
 IMPRESSIONISM

Impression Sunrise Starry Night

Claude Monet Vincent Van Gogh
 EXPRESSIONISM

Persistence of Memory Guernica

Salvador Dali Pablo Picasso
 ABSTRACTIONISM

Three Musicians The City

Pablo Picasso Fernand Leger
 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Autumn Rhythm Abstract No. 2

Jackson Pollock Lee Krasner
 CONTEMPORARY ART
FORMS

Cordillera Labyrinth Go to Room 117

Roberto Villanueva Sid Gomez Hildawa
 IMPRESSIONISM
Distinct Characteristics:
1. Color and Light
- Short broken strokes
- Pure unmixed colors side by side
- Freely brushed colors (convey visual effect)
2. Everyday Subjects
- Scenes of life
- Household objects
- Landscapes and Seascapes
- Houses, Cafes, Buildings
Distinct Characteristics:
3. Painting Outdoors
- Previously, still lifes, portraits, and
landscapes were painted inside the studio.
The impressionists found that they could
best capture the ever-changing effects of
light on color by painting outdoors in
natural light.
Distinct Characteristics:
4. Open Composition
- Impressionist painting also moved
away from the formal, structured
approach to placing and positioning
their subjects.
Sample Artworks:
IMPRESSIONISM

La Promenade

Claude Monet , 1875

Oil on Canvas
 Sample Artworks:
IMPRESSIONISM

The Bridge to the Artist’s

House

Karl Albert Buehr, 1908

 EXPRESSIONISM
(A Bold New Movement)
Sub-Movements:
1. Fauvism
- Uses bold, vibrant colors and visual
distortions.
2. Dadaism
- Characterized by dream fantasies,
memory images, and visual tricks and
fantasies.
Sample Artworks:
EXPRESSIONISM
Fauvism

Blue Window

• Henri Matisse, 1905

• Oil on Canvas
Sample Art Work - Expressionism
Dadaism

I and the Village

Mark Chagall, 1911
Oil on Canvas
 ABSTRACTIONISM
Sub-Movements:
1. Cubism
- Artworks were a play of planes and angles
on a flat surface.
2. Futurism
- Arts were created for a fast-paced, machine-
propelled age.
Sub-Movements:
3. Mechanical Style
- The result of the futurist movement. Basic
forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and
cylinders all fit together precisely and neatly in
their appointed places.
4. Non-objectivism
- Do not use figures.
 ABSTRACTIONISM
Sample Artwork: Cubism

Pablo Picasso, 1921

Three Musicians
Oil on Canvas
Sample Abstractionism - Futurism

Armored Train
Gino Severini, 1915
Oil on Canvas