They would break up the

subject into every different

(positions) shapes and then
repaint it from different angles

ARTS 10
(First Quarter)
IMPRESSIONISM
History:
- !860s
- 1874: Group of artists called the
Anonymous Society of
Painters, Sculptors,
Printmakers etc.
o Organized an exhibition
in Paris that launched
Impressionism
- Oscar Claude Monets:
Impression Sunrise
(*Impressionism)
- Depicts the visual
impressionism of the moment,
especially in terms of the
shifting of light and color
- An artistic style that seeks to
capture a feeling on experience
rather than to achieve accurate
depiction
- Optical Mixing uses dabs of
color
- Style changedflat brush
strokes gave way
OSCAR CLAUDE MONET
- Woman with Parasol
- Water lilies
- Japanese Bridge

CUBISM
-

An innovative art movement

pioneered by Pablo Picasso
and Georges Braque: the
movement started in 1908 and
lasted through the 1920s
In cubism, artists began to look
at subjects in new ways in an
effort to depict threedimensions on flat canvas.

ANALYTICAL CUBISM
In this style, artists would
study/analyze the subject and
break it up into different blocks
o Glass on a Table by
Georges Braque

Portrait of Ambrosio
Vollard by Pablo Picasso

SYNTHETIC CUBISM
In this style, it involves simpler
shapes and brighter colors(and
looks more light-hearted)
o Open Window by Juan
Gris

Three Mountains by
Pablo Picasso

EXPRESSIONISM
-

Typical trait is to present the

world solely from a subjective
perspective
- Expressionists sought to
express the meaning of
emotional experience rather
than physical reality
- Term is sometimes suggestive
of angst emo
EDWARD MUNCH
- Death and grief
- THE SCREAM
o Essentially this famous
pic is autobiographical,
an expressionistic
construction based on
Munchs actual
experience of a scream
piercing through nature
while on a walk, after his

2 companions in the
background had left him.
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DADAISM
-

Founded in Zurich,
Switzerland
The movement began around
1910 and continued until the
1920s
Marcel Duchamp is the most
well-known Dadaist in America
Its origin was largely influenced
by World War I

intangible

POPULAR ART
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SURREALISM
-

Movement that began in the

early 1920s and is best known
for its visual artworks
Aim was to resolve the
previously contradictory

conditions of dream and

reality
Artists created strange
creatures from everyday objects
and developed painting
techniques that allowed the
unconscious to express itself
o The Persistence of
Time by Salvador Dali
Concept: Time is

Employs aspects of mass

culture, such as advertising,
comic book and mundane
cultural objects

THANK YOU MARIAN, LENY and

ALLEN FOR THE LECTURE!