Modern Art Timeline

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Impressionismc.1870-1890

Impressionism is the name given to a colorful

style of painting in France at the end of the19th century.

The Impressionists searched for a more exact

analysis of the effects of colour and light in

nature. They sought to capture the atmosphere

of a particular time of day or the effects of

different weather conditions.

They often worked outdoors and applied their

paint in small brightly coloured strokes which

meant sacrificing much of the outline and

detail of their subject.

Impressionism abandoned the conventional

idea that the shadow of an object was made up

from its colour with some brown or black

added.

Claude Monet1840-1926

Rouen Cathedral - in full sunlight 1893/4

Louvre, Paris

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Impressionismc.1870-1890

Instead, the Impressionists enriched theircolours with the idea that a shadow is broken

up with dashes of its complementary colour.

Among the most important Impressionist

painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste

Renoir,Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, AlfredSisleyand Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.

Claude Monet1840-1926

Impression Sunrise (oil on canvas, 1872)

Muse Marmottan, Paris

Overview lecture on Impressionism and Post-

Impressionism

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The Impressionists(BBC Drama)

The Impressionists is a 3 part factual dramafrom the BBC, which reconstructs the origins

of the Impressionist art movement.

See it on Youtube!

Episode 1:Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Episode 2:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

Episode 3:Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5a | Part 5b

| Part 6

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Post Impressionismc.1885-1905

The Post Impressionists were a few

independent artists at the end of the 19th

century who rebelled against the limitations of

Impressionism to develop a range of personal

styles that influenced the development of art in

the 20th century. The major artists associated

with Post Impressionism were Paul

Czanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van

Gogh and Georges Seurat.

Czanne was an important influence on

Picasso and Braque in their development of

Cubism. Van Gogh's vigorous and vibrant

painting technique was one of the touchstones

of both Fauvism and Expressionism, while

Gauguin's symbolic color and Seurat's

pointillist technique were an inspiration to Les

Fauves.

Vincent Van Gogh1853-90

Caf Terrace at Night, 1888

Krller-Mller Museum

Understand post-impressionism with information

from an art historian, critic and curator in this free

video on art.

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Fauvismc.1905-10

Fauvism was a joyful style of painting thatdelighted in using outrageously bold colours. It

was developed in France at the beginning of

the 20th century by Henri Matisse and Andr

Derain.

The artists who painted in this style were

known as 'Les Fauves' (the wild beasts), a titlethat came from a sarcastic remark in a review

by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles.

Les Fauves believed that colour should be used

at its highest pitch to express the artist's

feelings about a subject, rather than simply to

describe what it looks like.

Fauvist paintings have two main

characteristics: extremely simplified drawing

and intensely exaggerated colour. They were a

major influence on the German Expressionists.

Henri Matisse1869-1954

The Open Window, Collioure, 1905

The National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Cubismc.1907-15

Cubism was invented around 1907 in Parisby Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. It was

the first abstract style of modern art.

Cubist paintings ignore the traditions of

perspective drawing and show you many views

of a subject at one time.

The Cubists believed that the traditions of

Western art had become exhausted and to

revitalize their work, they drew on the

expressive energy of art from other cultures,

particularly African art.

There are two distinct phases of the Cubist

style: Analytical Cubism (pre 1912)

and Synthetic Cubism(post 1912).

Pablo Picasso1881-1973


Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Oil on Canvas

(244 x 234 cm)

Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Cubismc.1907-15

Cubism influenced many other styles ofmodern art including Expressionism, Futurism,

Orphism, Vorticism, Suprematism,

Constructivism and De Styjl.

Other notable artists associated with Cubism

were Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Robert

Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger,Louis Marcoussis and Marie Laurencin.

Pablo Picasso1881-1973


Ambroise Vollard, 1915

Pushkin Museum of Fine Art
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German Expressionismc.1905-25

German Expressionism is a style of art that ischarged with an emotional or spiritual vision

of the world. The expressive paintings of

Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch

influenced the German Expressionists.

Expressionism was a militant spirit. The

German Expressionists saw themselves asrevolutionary shock troops with art as their

weapon.

They wanted to liberate themselves from the

repressive right-wing social and political

establishment in pre WW1 Germany, but they

were also desperate to free their art from theshackles of French painting which had

monopolised modern art since Impressionism.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner1880-1938

The Red Tower at Halle, 1915

Folkwang Museum, Essen

Chief Educator Barbara Brown from Milwaukee

Art Museum explains what German

Expressionism is about.

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German Expressionismc.1905-25

They also drew their inspiration from GermanGothic and 'primitive art'. The Expressionists

were divided into two factions: Die Brcke

and Der Blaue Reiter.

Die Brcke (The Bridge) was an artistic

community of young artists in Dresden who

aimed to overthrow the conservative traditionsof German art.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-

Rottluffwere two of its founding members.

Der Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider) was a group

of artists whose publications and exhibitionssought to find a common creative ground

between the various Expressionist art

forms. Kandinsky, Marc and Macke were

among its founding members.

Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

"Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider), painted 1903

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Abstract Artc.1907 onwards

Abstract art is a generic term that describes twodifferent methods of abstraction: 'semi

abstraction' and 'pure abstraction'. The word

'abstract' means to withdraw part of something

in order to consider it separately. In Abstract art

that 'something' is one or more of the visual

elements of a subject: its line, shape, tone,

pattern, texture, or form.

Semi-Abstraction is where the image still has

one foot in representational art, (see

Cubism and Futurism). It uses a type of

stylisation where the artist selects, develops and

refines specific visual elements (eg. line, colorand shape) in order to create a poetic

reconstruction or simplified essence of the

original subject.

Georges Braque1882-1963

Violin and Pitcher, 1910 (detail)

Kunstmuseum, Basel

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Abstract Artc.1907 onwards

Pure Abstraction is where the artist uses

visual elements independently as the actual

subject of the work itself.

(see Suprematism,De

Styjl and Minimalism).

Although elements of abstraction are

present in earlier artworks, the roots ofmodern abstract art are to be found in

Cubism. Among other important abstract

styles that developed in the 20th century are

Orphism, Rayonism, Constructivism,

Tachisme, Abstract Expressionism, and Op

Art.

Kazimir Malevich1879-1935

Suprematism, 1915

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

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Futurismc.1909-1914

Futurism was a revolutionary Italian

movement that celebrated modernity. TheFuturist vision was outlined in a series of

manifestos that attacked the long tradition of

Italian art in favour of a new avant-garde.

They glorified industrialization, technology,

and transport along with the speed, noise andenergy of urban life. The Futurists adopted the

visual vocabulary ofCubism to express their

ideas - but with a slight twist.

In a Cubist painting the artist records selected

details of a subject as he moves around it,

whereas in a Futurist painting the subject itself

seems to move around the artist.

Giacomo Balla1871-1959

The Rhythm of the Violinist (detail), 1912

Estorick Collection, London

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Futurismc.1909-1914

The effect of this is that Futurist paintings

appear more dynamic than their Cubistcounterparts.

Futurism was founded in 1909 by the poet

Filippo Tommas Marinetti and embraced the

arts in their widest sense.

The main artists associated with the movement

were Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla and

Gino Severini.

Umberto Boccioni

18821916

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913


The Futurist Manifesto
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De Styjlc.1917-1931

De Styjl was a Dutch 'style' ofpure

abstraction developed by Piet Mondrian, TheoVan Doesburg and Bart van der Leck.

Mondrian was the outstanding artist of the

group.

He was a deeply spiritual man who was intent

on developing a universal visual language thatwas free from any hint of the nationalism that

led to the Great War.

Mondrian gradually refined the elements of his

art to a grid of lines and primary colors which

he configured in a series of compositions that

explored his universal principles of harmony.

He saw the elements of line and color as

possessing counteracting cosmic forces.

Piet Mondrian1872-1944

Composition with White and Yellow, 1935-42

Christies, New York

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De Styjlc.1917-1931

Vertical lines embodied the direction and

energy of the sun's rays which were counteredby horizontal lines relating to the earth's

movement around it.

He saw primary colors through the same

cosmic tinted spectacles: yellow radiated the

sun's energy; blue receded as infinite space andred materialized as blue and yellow met.

Mondrian's style which he also called 'Neo-

Plasticism' was inspired by the Theosophical

beliefs of the mathematician and philosopher,

M.H.J. Schoenmaekers.

Piet Mondrian1872-1944

Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red

Currently held as part of the Tate Collection

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Dadac.1916-1922

Dada was not a style of art like Fauvism or

Cubism. It was a form of artistic anarchy bornout of disgust for the social, political and

cultural establishment of the time which it held

responsible for Europe's descent into World

War.

Dadaism was an anti art stance as it wasintent on destroying the artistic values of the

past. The aim of Dada was to create a climate

in which art was alive to the moment and not

paralysed by the corrupted traditions of the

established order.

Dadas weapons in the war against the artestablishment were confrontation and

provocation.

Raoul Hausmann1886-1971

Tatlin at Home, 1920

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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Dadac.1916-1922

They confronted the artistic establishment with

the irrationality of their collages andassemblages and provoked conservative

complacency with outrageous actions at their

exhibitions and meetings.

The movement started in Zurich and spread as

far as New York. Marcel Duchamp, RaoulHausmann, Jean Arp and Kurt Schwitters were

among the best of the Dada artists.

Marcel Duchamp1887-1968

Photograph of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain".

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Surrealismc.1924-1939

Surrealism was the positive outcome from

Dada's negativity.

Its aim as outlined in the First Surrealist

Manifesto of 1924, was to liberate the artist's

imagination by tapping into the unconscious

mind to discover a 'superior' reality - a sur-

reality.

To achieve this the Surrealists drew upon the

images of dreams, the unpredictable effects

from combining disassociated images, and the

technique of 'pure psychic automatism', a

spontaneous form of drawing without the

conscious control of the mind.

Ren Magritte1898-1967

Time Transfixed, 1938

Art Institute of Chicago



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Surrealismc.1924-1939

The look of Surrealist art was inspired by the

irrational juxtaposition of imagesin Dada collages, the dreamlike art of Giorgio

de Chirico, and both 'primitive' and 'outsider'

art.

The most influential of the Surrealist artists

were Max Ernst, Joan Mir, Salvador Dali andRen Magritte.

The movement broke up at the outbreak of war

in 1939 when several of the Surrealists left

Europe for New York where they had a

formative influence on the development of

Abstract Expressionism.

Salvador Dal

1904-1989

The Persistence of Memory

1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm).

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Modern Masters(BBC Documentary)

Unfortunately, only one episode, on SalvadorDali, can be found online.

Salvador Dali:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6


Modern Masters is a four-part television

series detailing the life and work of four giants of

20th century art: Henri Matisse; Pablo Picasso;

Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol. During thecourse of the series, presenter and

journalist, Alastair Sooke, explores why these

artists are considered so important and examines

how their influence can still be seen in our world

today.
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