Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism Russ McNeil Impressionism Post-impressionism 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 ( ) The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
Adolphe-William Bouguereau ( ) The Knitting Girl
Claude Monet ( ) Houses of Parliament
Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( ) Madame Charpentier and Her Children
Camille Pissarro ( ) The Chestnut Trees at Osny [note: Impressionist “martyr”]
Alfred Sisley ( ) Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Berthe Morisot ( ) In a Park Note: Manet Influence
Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin ( ) Sunset at Ivry
Frederic Bazille ( ) Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine
Edgar Degas ( ) The Rehearsal
Edouard Manet ( ) 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 ( ) Mont-St-Victoire (1885)
Paul Gauguin ( ) Spirit of the Dead Watching
Vincent van Gogh ( )
Van Gogh – Night Cafe
Van Gogh – Starry Night
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ( ) In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau ( ) 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 ( ) 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 ( ) [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 ( )
Antoni Gaudi ( )
Symbolism Late 19 th c. movement that influenced many modern trends.
Gustave Moreau ( )
Odilon Redon ( ) Smiling Spider
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ( )
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 ( ) North Shore, Lake Superior
A. J. Casson ( ) – White Pine
Lionel Fitzgerald ( ) Doc Snider's House
Edwin Holgate ( ) Canadian Destroyers, Halifax
A.Y. Jackson ( ) Houses of Ypres
Arthur Lismer ( ) Canadian Jungle
J.E.H. MacDonald ( ) Oaks, October Morning
F.H. Varley ( ) Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay
Frank Johnston (1888–1949) Camp Borden (1919)
Lawren Harris ( ) 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 ( ) – Couple Riding
Franz Marc ( ) – Yellow Cow
Amedeo Modigliani ( ) - Nude -- Caryatid
Edvard Munch ( ) Dead Mother
Gershon Iskowitz ( ) Sky
Kathe Kollwitz ( )
Paul Klee ( )
Surrealism Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind.
Giorgio de Chirico ( ) Metaphysical Interior with Factory
Yves Tanguy ( ) Indefinite Divisibility
Dorothea Tanning (1910-) Ein klein nachtmusik
Salvador Dali ( )