European Modern Art

1600s-1900s

European Art 1600s-1900sEuropean art can be separated along the following styles:

1. Baroque: 1600s to early 1700s2. Neo-Classical: late 1700s3. Romanticism: early 1800s4. Realism: mid 1800s5. Impressionism: 1860s6. Expressionism: late 1800s-early 1900s (post-

Impressionism7. Cubism: 19078. Surrealism: early- mid 1900s9. Art Nouveau: 1880-191010. Art Deco: 1920s and 1930s11. Modern Movements- post WWII

Baroque

• Grand, ornate, intense design• Versailles palace an excellent

example• Caravaggio and Gentileschi are

artists of distinction during this period

Michelangelo Caravaggio

Palace of Versailles

Neo-Classical

• Simple, elegant style inspired by classical Greco-Roman art. Influenced by the Enlightenment.

• Robert Adam (architecture), Jacques-Louis David (art), Antonio Canova (sculpture) and Josiah Wedgewood (decorative arts) are key artists of this period

Robert Adam

Jacques-Louis David

Antonio Canova

Josiah Wedgewood

Romanticism

• Reflected deep interest in nature and the thoughts and feelings of the individual.

• Movement from reason to emotion/society to nature.

• Eugene Delacroix key artist.

Eugene Delacroix

Realism

• Life as it truly was. Gritty. Scandalous (realistic, sexual nudes)

• Reflected increasing importance of the working class.

• Gustave Courbet key artist.

Gustave Courbet

Impressionism

• 1860s Paris the origination point.• Impression of a subject in a moment

of time (like a quick glance)• Used light and fascination with pure,

shimmering colors.• Monet, Degas and Renoir key artists.• Van Gogh and Gauguin

Claude Monet

Edgar Degas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Expressionism

• Bold colors• Distorted and exaggerated forms• Klee, Kandinsky and Munch are

key artists

Paul Klee

Wassily Kandinsky

Edward Munch

Art Nouveau

• Art Nouveau is French and means New Art. It is characterized by its highly decorative style and by the dedication to natural forms. Art Nouveau was popular from about 1880 to 1910 and was an International art movement.

• Art Nouveau was not restricted to painting or printmaking. It covered all forms of art - architecture, furniture, jewelry, glass and illustration.

• Louis Tiffany and Gustav Klimt are key artists

Louis Tiffany

Gustav Klimt

Art Deco

• Art Deco was primarily a design style, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. In simplified terms, the Art Deco movement can be considered as the follow-up style on Art Nouveau - more simplified and closer to mass production. The Art Deco movement was dominant in fashion, furniture, jewelry, textiles, architecture, commercial printmaking and interior decoration.

Rene Lalique

Cubism

• Natural shapes turned into geometric objects.

• Inspired by traditional African art.• Picasso and Braque are key artists.

Pablo Picasso

Georges Braque

Surrealism

• “Above or beyond reality.”• Inspired by Sigmund Freud• Dream world linked to real world• Eerie, dreamlike• Salvador Dali key artist

Salvador Dali

Modern Movements

Some of the more popular modern movements of the late 20th century are as follows:

1. Abstract Art- Chagall2. Pop Art- Warhol3. Op Art

Marc Chagall

Andy Warhol

OP Art