Modern Art: Realism to the Present Realism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism
Realism Cynical confrontation with Romantic flights of fancy and the rising bourgeois culture Portrayed ordinary people doing daily tasks Major Artists: Courbet Brown
The Stone Breakers Gustav Courbet
The Painter's Studio; A Real Allegory 1855
Ford Madox Brown The Last of England 1855
Impressionism Based on earlier Spanish painting and Japanese art represented a new enthusiasm for the reaction of the artist to a scene portrayed what the eye could see with a single glance Painted mostly outdoors Flat brush strokes become flecks of paint/more free Concept of color palettes important artists: Manet, Monet, Renoir
The Fifer 1866 Edouard Manet
1882 The Bar at the Folies Bergère
1863 Luncheon on the Grass
Claude Monet Water Lilies
1905
Japanese Footbridge 1899
Auguste Renoir The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876
A Girl with a Watering Can 1876
Post Impressionism Applies to painters in the 1880s and 1890s A move beyond Impressionism which emphasized the realistic aspects of art which desired to explore psychological effects with more solidity than the Impressionist gave important artists: Cezanne Seurat van Gogh
Paul Cezanne Still Life with Apples
The Card Players
Vincent Van Gogh ( ) Irises 1889
1889 The Starry Night
1888 Café Terrace at Night
1886 Sunday Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte
approx Bathing at Asnièrs
Expressionism Everything subordinated to the expression of emotion Major artists: Henri Matisse Edvard Munch
The Scream 1893 Edvard Munch ( )
Henri Matisse ( ) The Red Studio 1911
The Joy of Life
1937 Woman in a Purple Coat
Cubism Painters emphasized geometric patterns in portraying an artist or a situation Major artists: Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso ( ) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907
1903 The Old Guitarist
1937 Guernica, detail
1921 Three Musicians
Surrealism Founded in the 1920s Influenced by Freudian psychology Portrays the fantasies and dreams of the subconscious Major artists: Max Ernst Salvador Dali
Max Ernst ( ) The Wavering Woman 1923
Salvador Dali ( ) The Persistence of Memory, 1931
The Sacrament of the Last Supper 1955