Courbet - Stonebreakers Realism Looked to real life for inspiration, usually the lower classes Highlighting the physical work & world of poor Jean-Francois Millet & Gustave Courbet Milet – The Gleaners Courbet - Stonebreakers
Impressionism and Post-Impressions Reaction to photography Changing perspective, view points, light & shadow Subject matter often ordinary scenes Post-impressionism stress form & structure Geometric shapes pointillism
Monet Degas
Cezanne Van Gogh Starry Night Gauguin
Expressionism Distortion & use of color to portray emotion Expression over detail Objects fade away & replaced w/ abstraction Munch (1893) – the Scream Kandinsky (1913) – Composition VII
Cubism Broke images down to simpler forms & then reassembled for different perspectives Influenced by theory of relativity Picasso
Picasso (1937)- Guernica
Dadaism and Surrealism Both movements are a reaction to WWI – pessimism & alienation Anti-art, show the absurdity of life Images often have no relation w/ each other Abstraction reduces reality to essentials Surrealism influenced by Freud and the unconscious
Nude Descending a Staircase (1913) by Marcel Duchamp Dali (1930) – The Persistence of Memory