The “Isms”1870 - 1930

Impressionism1860 - 1880

Haussmann is asked to reconstruction Paris. Rejection from the official Salon. Impressionists become known for their lack of finish

and subject matter.

Impressionism1860 - 1880

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Grands Boulevards, 1875, oil on canvas

Edgar Degas, Foyer de la danse, 1872, oil on canvas

Post ImpressionismEarly 1880’s – mid 1910’s

By the last Impressionist exhibition in 1886, younger artists and critics demanded a shift in the focus of the representational arts.

Symbolic and highly personnel meanings become more important.

Post Impressionism Early 1880’s – mid 1910’s

Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c.1905, Oil on canvas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1893-95, oil on canvas

Art Nouveau1890 - 1905

Two main influences: Arts and Crafts movement and Japanese woodblock prints.

Reaction against the Academic System.

Art Nouveau1890 - 1905

Aubrey Beardsley, The Peacock Skirt, 1894, ink illustration

Gustav Klimt, Hope II, 1907-8, oil and gold leaf on canvas

Fauvism1899 - 1908

Fauvism was the first twentieth-century movement in modern art.

It grew out of a loosely allied group of French painters, Henri Matisse being the leader of Les Fauves, or "The Wild Beasts.”

Emphasis on the use of intense color as a vehicle for describing light and space, as well as for communicating the artist's emotional state.

Fauvism 1899 - 1908

Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905, oil on canvas

Maurice de Vlaminck, The River Seine at Chatou, 1906, oil on canvas

Expressionism1905 - 1933

Began with the founding of the Die Bruck group. A focus on the self and expressing spirituality and

feeling.

Expressionism1905 - 1933

Egon Schiele ,Self-Portrait, 1910, Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on paper

Erich Heckel ,Portrait of a Man , 1919, woodcut

Futurism1909 – late 1920’s

Italian avant-garde movement of the 20th Century. Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto published in

1909. Futurists celebrate the advancing of technology and

urban modernity.

Futurism1909 – late 1920’s

Umberto Boccioni ,The City Rises, 1910, oil on canvas

Giacomo Balla ,Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, oil on canvas

Cubism1907 - 1922

Developed by Picasso and Braque around 1907. Ways to describe space, volume, and mass.

Cubism 1907 - 1922

Pablo Picasso ,Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

Georges Braque, “Bottle and Fish”, 1910 – 12, oil on canvas

Suprematism1913 – late 1920s

Suprematism, the invention of Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was one of the earliest and most radical developments in abstract art.

Name comes from belief that Suprematist art would be superior to all the art of the past, and that it would lead to the "supremacy of pure feeling or perception in the pictorial arts."

Search for art's barest essentials. It was a radical and experimental project that at times came close to a strange mysticism.

Suprematism1913 – late 1920’s

“White on White”, Kazimir (Severinovich) Malevich, 1918,  Oil on canvas 

El Lissitzky, “Proun 99”, 1925,Watercolor and metallic paint on wood

Dadaism1916 - 1924

Reaction against World War II No coherent style

Dadaism1916 - 1924

Marcel duchamp ,Étant donnés, 1946–1966, mixed media

Man Ray,Le Cadeau (The Gift), 1921, iron and tacks

Surrealism1924 - 1966

Developed after the collapse of the Parisian Dada. Changing reality by expressing unconscious in art.

Surrealism1924 – late 1966

Max Ernst, “Europe After the Rain”, 1940 - 1942

Joan Miro, Maternity, 1924, oil on canvas