Art Movements The isms The Remixing of Art

Art Movements The –isms The Remixing of Art

Renaissance • 1400 -1550 (includes early, high, Venetian, and Italian Renaissance) • “Renaissance” means rebirth – a return of classical ideas from Ancient Rome and Greece. • Natural approach to depiction of the human figure – anatomically and scientifically correct. • Raised the status of artists in society to be on par with writers and philosophers. • Classical content – human figure, religious figures (Madonna, baby Jesus, angels).

Rennaisance

Mannerism • 1520 -1580 • Personalized and idealized interpretation of figures, rather than “true to nature” depiction of Renaissance artists. • Exaggerated and elegant representation of figures.

Mannerism

Baroque • • • 1600 -1700 Reaction against artificial stylization of the Mannerists. Realistic interpretation; figures in action; emotional. Religious, mythical, historical subjects. Used as propaganda for the Church and State.

Baroque Art as a weapon in religious wars.

Rococo • 1700 -1775 • Decorative response to Baroque. • Said to be refined and elegant by some, pompous and pretentious by others.

Rococo

Neo. Classicism • 1765 -1850 • Reaction to the pompous-ness of Rococo. • Age of the Enlightenment; political, social, and cultural revolutions. • Needed/wanted serious art that reflected more serious times. • Historical scenes of heroism and virtuosity for political propaganda.

Neo. Classicism

Romanticism • 1765 -1850 • Valued expression of emotion over the control of Classicism. • Emotive and sensual subjects.

Romanticism Imagination and individuality.

Romanticism Imagination and individuality.

Realism • • • 1840 -1880 Focused on everyday reality of subject. Reaction against heightened emotions of Romanticism. Objective truth; social realities. Inspired by “visual reality” theme brought about by the invention of photography in 1840 s.

Realism Revolted against typical subjects; painted “real” life and ordinary subjects.

Impressionism • • 1870 -1890 Analyzed color and light in nature. Lost much of the outline and detail of their subjects. Strayed from realistic portrayal of subjects.

Impressionism Painted light rather than a subject.

Post-Impressionism • 1885 -1905 • Rebelled against Impressionism. • Not one set style – collection of many artists and styles that were all reacting to Impressionism’s formless, unstructured style.

Post Impressionism Revolted against Impressionism; reintroduced structure to the paintings.

Expressionism • 1905 -1925 • Emotional or spiritual vision of the world.

Expressionism Used emotion to distort form.

Cubism • 1907 -1915 • Show many views of the subject at the same time. • Referenced other cultures as inspiration – specifically African art.

Cubism Experiments; new art forms to reflect modern times.

Dada • 1916 -1922 • Not a style, per se, more of a reaction to the social, political, and cultural things going on at the time that led Europe to WW 1. • “Anti-art” stance. Attempted to provoke other artists by doing things “wrong. ”

Dada

Surrealism • 1924 -1939 • Positive response to Dada’s negativity. • Goal was to liberate an artist’s imagination by tapping into the unconcious and fine a “superior reality” – a surreality.

Surrealism Painting dreams and exploring the unconcious.

Abstract Expressionism • 1946 -1956 • First American art style that influenced art globally. • Physical act of painting is as important as the result.

Abstract Expressionism Abstraction and expression without form.