1. Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Modern World
Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism

2. Neo-Classicism / Neo-Classical
Reacts to the excesses of the monarchy
Rejects the ornamentation of the Baroque, frivolous excess of the Rococo
Return to order, reason and structural clarity
Fine art should spread knowledge and enlightenment
Jacques Louis David, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jefferson

3. Oath of the Horatii; David

4. Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures; Angelica Kauffmann

5. The Death of Marat,
David 1793

6. Napoleon
Ingres

7. Monticello,
Thomas Jefferson

8. Romanticism Named after popular medieval tales of adventure
Revolts against neo-classical order
Return to nature / imagination
Focus on freedom, emotion, sentimentality, spontaneity
Interest in exotic, patriotic, primitive, and supernatural, mythology
Romanticism refers to an attitude
Artists: Constable, Goya, Delacroix Cole /Hudson River School

9. The Haywain, John Constable

10. The Executions of May 3rd, Goya

11. Saturn Devouring
One of His Children,
Francisco de Goya
Fresco

12. The Oxbow Thomas Cole1836

13. The Death of Sardanapalus; Delacroix 1827

14. Realism Ordinary existence without idealism, exoticism or nostalgia
To seek the truth
To find beauty in the commonplace
Focus on the Industrial Revolution and the condition of working class
Real people doing everyday things
Artists: Courbet, Millet, Manet, Bonheur, Tanner

15. The Stonebreakers, Gustave Courbet 1849

16. A Burial at Ornan’s Gustave Courbet 1849

17. The Horse Fair; Bonheur 1853-55

18. The Banjo Lesson; Tanner 1893

19. Execution of the Emperor Maximillian of Mexico, Manet 1867

20. The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet 1857

21. Expressing reality in a different manner
Impressionism
Expressing reality in a different manner
Focus on showing effects of light and atmospheric conditions
Capturing a moment in time through spontaneity and the use of quick brush strokes and many color values
Three things helped usher in Impressionism…

22. The Camera…
Process for permanently affixing images on light sensitive paper.

23. Tubes allowed artist to paint anywhere.
Tube Paint…
Tubes allowed artist to paint anywhere.
Before tubes, paint mixed and used in studios

24. Opening of Japan to Western Trade.

27. Claude Monet

28. Impression, Sunrise, Monet 1872

29. Waterlilies, Monet

30. Waterlilies
Monet
1906

31. Parliament Series
Monet

35. Auguste Renoir

36. The Walk
Renoir
1870

37. Luncheon of the Boating Party, Renoir 1881

38. Mary Cassatt
Self Portrait

39. Mother and Child, Mary Cassatt 1880

40. Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

41. Mother Preparing to Wash Sleepy Child

42. Degas
Self-Portrait

43. The Star, Degas 1878

44. Ballet Practice

45. Followed Impressionism (Duh) Did not share a single style
Post-Impressionism
Followed Impressionism (Duh)
Did not share a single style
Instead, reacted to Impressionism in highly individualized ways
Focused more on emotions

46. Vincent Van Gogh

47. The Potato Eaters

48. Great Wave at Kanagawa
Hokusai

49. The Courtesan
The Blooming Plum Tree

50. Bedroom at Arles

51. The Night Cafe, Vincent Van Gogh 1888

52. Starry Night

53. Wheatfield and Crows, Vincent Van Gogh 1890

54. Paul Cezanne
Self-Portrait

55. Chrysanthemums, Cezanne 1896-98

56. Still-Life

57. Georges Seurat

58. Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jette

59. Eiffel Tower

60. Paul Gauguin

61. The Vision After the Sermon; Paul Gauguin 1888

62. The Scream,
Edvard Munch
1893

63. Modern and Contemporary 1900- Present
Breaks with or redefines the conventions of the past
Uses experimental techniques
Shows the diversity of society and the blending of cultures
Simplification of form
Non-traditional materials

64. Early 20th Century Fauves and Expressionism Cubism Abstract Sculpture
America
Futurism and the Celebration of Motion

65. Translated “Wild Beasts” Boldly colored paintings
Fauvism
Translated “Wild Beasts”
Boldly colored paintings
Depart from nature with unconven-tional brush strokes
The Red Room, Henri Matisse

66. London Bridge; Derain 1906

67. German Expressionist Vivid often angular simplifications of subjects
Dramatic color contrasts
Bold, sometimes crude finish
Two groups: The Bridge and The Blue Rider
Street, Berlin; Kirchner 1913

68. Blue Mountain
Kandinsky

69. Composition IV; Kandinsky 1911

70. Artists: Picasso and Braque
Cubism
Artist broke apart objects or human forms and represented them from multiple view points as flattened shapes
Radical departure from traditional techniques, materials and views of the subject
Artists: Picasso and Braque

71. Still Life with Death’s Head, Picasso 1907

73. Houses at La Estaque, Braque 1909
Landscape with Bridge, Picasso 1909
Houses at La Estaque, Braque 1909

74. Chapter 23 Between World Wars DADA Surrealism Expanding on Cubism
Constructionism

75. DADA A reaction to the horrors of WWI and WWII
Rejected reason and logic
Prized anarchy, nonsense, irrationality and intuition
French for “hobby horse”
L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp 1919,

76. Fountain; Marcel Duchamp

77. John Heartfield
“Don’t Be Afraid, He’s a Vegetarian!”

78. Surrealism Gave central importance to the subconscious and dreams
Often puts together objects that don’t belong…
Swans Reflecting Elephants, Salvador Dali

79. Hallucinogenic Toreador,
…Or put objects in backgrounds or environments they would not normally be found in.
The results were often disturbing or hilarious.
Hallucinogenic Toreador,
Salvador Dali

80. Magritte

81. False Mirror; Magritte

82. Postwar Modern Movements

83. Convergence, Jackson Pollock 1952

84. Subjects easily recognized images from popular culture
Pop Art
Subjects easily recognized images from popular culture
Wham! Roy Lichtenstein, 1963

85. Andy Warhol
Marilyn
100 Soup Cans

86. Other American Artists…
Migrant Mother;
Dorthea Lange

87. Georgia O’Keefe
Summer Days

88. Poppies; O’Keefe

89. Jacob Lawrence
The Swearing In

90. Man on a scaffold; Lawrence