Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism
Impressionism
Post-impressionism Russ McNeil Fauvism
Pointillism Art Nouveau Symbolism Group of Seven
Expressionism Surrealism Malaspina Great Books
Impressionism 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 (18601939)
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, PostImpressionism, 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 (18881949) Camp Borden (1919)
Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior, 1924
Lawren Harris Miners 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 Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
Indefinite Divisibility Dorothea Tanning (1910-) Ein klein nachtmusik
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
