Modern Art: From Impressio nism to Expressionism Russ McNeil • Impressionism • Post-impressionism • Fauvism • Pointillism • Art Nouveau • Symbolism • Group of Seven • Expressionism • Surrealism Malaspina Great Books
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Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism
Russ McNeil
• Impressionism• Post-impressionism• Fauvism• Pointillism• Art Nouveau• Symbolism• Group of Seven• Expressionism• Surrealism
An attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour.
Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1825-1905) The Knitting Girl
Claude Monet (1840-1926) Houses of Parliament
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier and Her Children
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) The Chestnut Trees at Osny [note: Impressionist “martyr”]
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) In a Park Note: Manet Influence
Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) Sunset at Ivry
Frederic Bazille (1841-1870) Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The Rehearsal
Edouard Manet (1832-1833) Luncheon on the Grass
Post-impressionism
Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in different directions.
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) Mont-St-Victoire (1885)
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Spirit of the Dead Watching
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Van Gogh – Night Cafe
Van Gogh – Starry Night
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau (1844-1910) The Dream
Fauvism
Short lived movement but one that marked the advent of Modernism. The style of painting, using non-naturalistic colors, was one of the first avant-garde developments in European art.
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) The Joy of Life
Pointillism
Form of painting in which the use of tiny primary-color dots is used to generate secondary colors
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) [neo-impressionist]
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines.
Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
Symbolism
Late 19th c. movement that influenced many modern trends.
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)Smiling Spider
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898 )
Group of Seven
Group of Seven artists were strongly influenced by Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau and Symbolism - creating bold, vividly-colored canvases, and instilling elements of the landscape with symbolic meaning.
Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945 ) North Shore, Lake Superior
A. J . Casson (1898-1992 ) – White Pine
Lionel Fitzgerald (1890-1956) Doc Snider's House
Edwin Holgate (1892-1977) Canadian Destroyers, Halifax
A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974) Houses of Ypres
Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) Canadian Jungle
J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)Oaks, October Morning
F.H. Varley (1881-1969) Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay
Frank Johnston (1888–1949) Camp Borden (1919)
Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior, 1924
Lawren Harris – Miner’s Houses, Glace Bay
Expressionism
Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) – Couple Riding
Franz Marc (1880-1916) – Yellow Cow
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) - Nude -- Caryatid
Edvard Munch (1863-1944 )Dead Mother
Gershon Iskowitz (1921-1988 ) Sky
Kathe Kollwitz(1867-1945 )
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Surrealism
Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind.
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) Metaphysical Interior with Factory