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Art What is the purpose of art?

Most Common Purposes Telling a story Display emotion Propaganda Beauty Social Statement

Periods in Artistic Expression Classical Art Greece and Rome Medieval Art Religious Expression in 2 dimension God as King, man as Servant Renaissance Art Classical revival on Christian Themes Man as the centerpiece of Creation

Impressionism Movement in French painting, developed in the 1870s chiefly by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley, having the aim of objectively recording experience by a system of fleeting impressions, especially of natural light effects

Impressionism Claude Monet Pierre Auguste Renoir Camille Pissarro Alfred Sisley Berthe Morisot Armand Guillaumin Frédéric Bazille Edgar Degas Paul Cézanne Édouard Manet

POST-IMPRESSIONISM Late 19th-century reaction to Impressionism, emphasizing on one hand the emotional aspect of painting and on the other a return to formal structure; the first led to Expressionism; the second, to Cubism

Post Impressionism Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (too-LOOZ-loe-trek) Paul Cezanne (say ZAHN) Vincent van Gogh (GOE) Paul Gauguin (go-GA(N)) Auguste Rodin (roe-DAN)

CUBISM A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.

Cubism Pablo Picasso Georges Braque Robert Delaunay Albert Gleizes Juan Gris Fernand Leger Lipchitz Jean Metzinger Lyonel Feininger Paul Klee Marcel Duchamp Salvador Dali Marc Chagall

Expressionism Movement in the 20th century that attempted to express feeling and emotion directly by distorting forms, choosing violent subject matter and harsh colors, and keeping the overall design out of balance

Expressionist Painters Vincent van Gogh James Ensor Edvard Munch Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Marc Chagal Salvador Dali Henri Matisse Amadeo Modigliani Pablo Picasso Paul Gauguin

SURREALISM A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

Surrealism Louis Aragon Hans Bellmer Andre Breton Rene Crevel Robert Desnos Max Ernst Wilfredo Lam Andre Masson Frida Kahlo Paul Klee Matta Paul Eluard Marc Chagall Joan Miro Man Ray Meret Oppenheim Wolfgang Paalen Philippe Supault Raoul Ubac Salvador Dali Marchel Duchamp René Magritte Yves Tanguy Oscar Dominiguez yid=&text=Surrealism&box=&shownewhttp:// yid=&text=Surrealism&box=&shownew=

Pop Art Pop Art is a modern art movement, started in the 1950s, which uses the imagery, styles, and themes of advertising, mass media, and popular culture. Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol are among the best known Pop artists.Andy Warhol Inspiration and ideas for Pop Art paintings were drawn from the commercial and consumer aspects of everyday life, particularly in American culture. Source: About.com Painting. Pop Art -- Art Glossary Definition

Art helps us understand history and human values Art elevates the individual Art makes commentary on society Art moves populations to action Art is for EVERYONE!

Meaning and Purpose in Architecture

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Vincent van Gogh "And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'" Vincent van Gogh Letter November 1883 Letter 338

A Short Bio Vincent van Gogh: Overview Birth Year : 1853 Death Year : 1890 Country : Netherlands Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self- confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.Rubens

In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. Near the end of 1888, an incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles. Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.PissarroMonetGauguin

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