Modern Art

From Impressionism to Expressionism

Impressionism Post-impressionism Fauvism Pointillism Art Nouveau Symbolism Group of Seven Expressionism

Impressionism

was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and color.

Post-impressionism

extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color.

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) Still Life with Cherub (1895)

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Skull with Burning Cigarette (1886)

Fauvism

was a short-lived movement but one that marked the advent of Modernism. The style of painting, using non-naturalistic colors, was one of the first avant-garde developments in European art.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Portrait of Madame Matisse (Green Stripe) (1905)

Pointillism

is a form of painting in which the use of tiny primary-color dots is used to generate secondary colors.

George Seurat (1859-1891) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (18841886)

George Seurat (1859-1891) The Circus (1891)

Art Nouveau

is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines.

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) Champagne Printer Publisher (1897)

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) The Kiss (1908)

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) Casa Batll (1877)

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) Sagrada Famlia (1882-at least 2027)

This is the crossing and dome of the Sagrada Famlia basilica

Symbolism

was a late 19th century art movement that influenced many modern trends.

Carlos Schwabe (18661926) The death of the gravedigger (1895)

Fernand Khnopff (18581921) The Caress (1896)

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) The Apparition (1876)

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) Smiling Spider (1881)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) Hope (1872)

Group of Seven

artist were strongly influenced by Impressionism, Post-impressionism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau and Symbolism creating bold vividly-colored canvases and instilling elements of the landscape with symbolic meaning.

Group of Seven
(sometimes known as the Algonquin school was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933)

1. Franklin Carmichael 2. Lawren S. Harris 3. Alexander Young Jackson 4. Frank H. Johnston 5. Arthur Lismer 6. J. E. H. MacDonald 7. Frederick H. Varley
Later 8. A. J. Casson (18981992) join in 1926 9. Edwin Holgate (18921977) join in 1930 10. Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (18901956) join in 1932

1. Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945) Mirror Lake (1929)

2. Lawren S. Harris (18851970) Afternoon Sun, north Shore, Lake Superior (1924)

3. Alexander Young Jackson (18821972) House of Ypres

4. Frank H. Johnston (1888 - 1949) Sopwith Camel Looping (1918)

5. Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) Olympic with Returned Soldiers (1919)

6. J. E. H. MacDonald (18731932) Oaks, October Morning

7. Frederick H. Varley (1881-1969) Gas Chamber at Seaford (1918)

8. A. J. Casson (18981992) White Pine

9. Edwin Holgate (18921977) Canadian Destroyers, Halifax (1941)

10. Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (18901956) Doc Sniders House (1931)

Expressionism

is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Couple Riding (1913)

Franz Marc (1880-1916) Yellow Cow (1911)

Edvard Munch (18631944) The Scream (1893)

Edvard Munch (18631944) Dead Mother (1900)

Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Die Witwe I (The Widow I) (1923)

Paul Klee (1879-1940) Senecio (1922)

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