Post-Impressionists

Vincent Paul
Van Gogh Cezanne
 M O D E R N &
C O N T E M P O R A RY
A RT S

EXPRESSIONISM
 expressionism
An artistic style in which an artist
attempts to portray the subjective
emotions and responses that
objects, events, or situations arouse
in him/her.
 Space that
depicts a
muddled
atmosphere

Shows distortion,
Intense colors, exaggeration, primitivism
wavy linear and fantasy through vivid,
brushstrokes jarring, violent/dynamic
implying application of formal
agitation. elements.
 I
N_O
_R__IT_V_SM
 Neo-Primitivism
• Started as a trend in Russian
paintings in early 20th
century.
• Western avant-garde were
combined with features from
peasant art, lubki.
Gardening (1908) | Natalia Goncharova
Gardening (1908) |
Natalia Goncharova
 II

_AU_IS_
 FA U V I S M
• First of the avant-garde
movements in France.
• The style of les Fauves (the wild
beasts) a loose group of early
20th century modern artists.
Woman with a Hat (1905) • Emphasized painterly qualities
Henri Martisse and strong colors.
 • Experimentation with pure

liberated and unmixed colors.

• Coming together of artists to
the use of who wish to express
themselves by using bold
color for colors, simplified drawing,
and expressive brushwork.
future • Short-lived, by the year
1910artists in the group
artists diverged into their
individual interests.
 III

D_DA_SM
 DADAISM
• A literary and artistic
movement that
originated in Europe
during World War 1.
• Artistic tradition of
Out with the Kitchen Knife through
the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural
Epoch of Germany (1919)
protesting.
Hannah Hoch
 DADAISM
• Never follow any known rule
• To provoke an emotional
reaction from the viewer.
(typically shock or outrage)
• Nonsensical and whimsical even
though the artists are fiercely
serious.
• There was no predominant
media and styles. They use
assemblage, collage,
photomontage, & etc.
 IV
S_RR_A_ISM
SURREALISM
 Surrealism
• A cultural movement that began in

unlock the
the 1920s.
• Exhibits principles, ideals, or

power of
practices of producing fantastic
imagery or effects in art.
literature, film, or theater
imagination • The use of unnatural or irrational
juxtapositions and combinations.
• Painting techniques that allowed
unconscious to express itself.
 the influencers

Andre Breton Karl Marx Sigmund Freud

Founder of Mind’s power to Dreams as
reveal revelations of
Surrealism contradictions human emotions
surrealist
imagery
The most recognizable element of
the movement, but the most elusive
to categorize and define.
 Max Ern
• German
sculptor,
graphic
artist &
poet.
• A birdlike
alter ego

L’Angue du Foyer ou le Tromphe du Surrealisme (1937)

 Salvador
Dali
• Spanish
draftsman
• Striking &
bizarre
images.

The Persistence of Memory (1931)

 Joan
Miro
• A Spanish
painter,
sculptor,
and
ceramicist.
• Vague
biomorphic
imagery

The Tilled Field (1923-1924)

 V
S _ C I _ _
_ _AL_ S M
Social Realism
• An artistic and political movement
during the 1920s and 1930s.
• The era of global economic
depression, racial conflict heightened,
rise of fascist regimes, and optimism
• Produced figurative and realistic
images of the “masses”.
• Art as a weapon that could fight the
Death (1934) | Noguchi
capitalist mistreatment of workers.
I NEO-
PRIMITIVISM
II FAUVISM

III DADAISM

IV SURREALIS
M
SOCIAL
V REALISM