2. 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

3. 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

4. Monet
Degas

5. Cezanne
Van Gogh
Starry Night
Gauguin

6. 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

7. Cubism
Broke images down to simpler forms & then reassembled for different perspectives
Influenced by theory of relativity
Picasso

8. Picasso (1937)- Guernica

9. 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

10. Nude Descending a Staircase (1913) by Marcel Duchamp
Dali (1930) – The Persistence of Memory