Quick over view of Movements 1500-Impressionism

Northern Europe Baroque, 1500-1600. 

• Reubens, Elevation of the Cross. 1610-1611
• Rembrant, Self Portrait. 1628
• Subtractive, eyes obscure, removes windows to the soul, explores other avenues besides traditional, chiaroscuro, tenebrism.

Rococo, 

• Fragonard, The Swing. 1766
• Trivial, frivolous, sexual content, non-political, non-religious, just directed towards higher class.

Neo-Classical, late 1700's

(Idealism, lack of emotion)

• Jacques Louis David, Marat Assassination, 1793
• Historical, close friend, personal, relieving how he was murdered. 
• Jacques Louis David, The oath of Horatii, 1784-1785
• one point linear perspective, conservative political pa
• Ingres, Grande Odalisques, 1814
• Reclining nude, s shape for seduction, manneristic influences

Romanticism, 1800's

• Theodore Gericault, The Raft of medusa, 1818-1819
• Dramatic lighting, awe, majestic, evoke emotion, personal intense expression, Man of colour is the hero, royalists leave crew to die 4 miles out to sea, response to neo-classicism.
• Delacroux, Lady Liberty, 1830
• Captures passion and energy, depiction of allegorical personification of liberty. 
• Goya, 3rd of May, 1814-1815
• Faceless mean french, no emotion. The man is focal point, defenseless, Christ pose, painterly, brush strokes seen.

Realism, Late 1800's

• Daumier, The third class Carriage, 1863-1865
• depicting the real, the everyday and mundane.
• Millet, The gleaners, 1857
• lack of vibrant colour, non-pretty/happy, attention drawn to the gleaners.
• Repin, Barge haulers on the Volga, 1870-1873
• Shows a story what is to come for the younger man, celebrates and condemns man at the same time.

Impressionism, late 1800's

(Cpature the fleeting movement, en plein air)

• Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1864
• two nude woman, two well dressed men. Manet's aim was to have a reassesment of what should be considered art for the salon.
• Manet, Olympia, 1863
• exploring racial divisions, meets viewers eyes with indifference
• Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1872
• Clear brushstrokes, Painting to define impressionism, impression of a painting
• Degas, L'Anbsinthe, 1876 

Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art

Abstract Expressionism, 1950's

Influenced by selective subconscious, which is believed to be expressed through symbols.

Jackson Pollock, two big influence, art and alcohol. He expresses the process is just as important as product. Looking at his work you can see his process. Extremely interested in the relationship between music and painting, like Jazz.

Pop Art, 1980's

Looking at the american throw-away/here today gone tomorrow society as bad. They were also a reaction against abstract expressionism.

Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichentstein and Andy Warhol are leading artists of this period.

Surrealism

The Surrealists wanted to embrace the irrational,

Highly influenced by Sigmund Freud, and the Freudian Slip. They wanted to tune onto to their unconscious minds.

Max Ernst painting his dreams.

Salvador Dali, he also paints dreams, or more nightmares, there are two of his that i absolutely love!

Persistence of memory, 1931

Soft construction with boiled beans, (premonition of civil war), 1936

Dada

Dada! (early 20th Century)
HobbyHorse in french


Founder, Hugo Ball, transformed the cafe 'Cabaret Voltaire' into one of the leading art centers of the world. This movement Dada, in Zurich,  had many different artists, member and concepts.
Dada was inspired by the futurists movement. It completely rejected the past, enjoying noise music etc.
Dada's program was to have no program, accepting anything and everything, freeing art from commercialization, but allowing art to be personal for the artist, not for social happiness.

They felt that if art truly reflects our lives, then we need to incorporate the element of chance, in fact the name Dada was found by accident, the flip of a dictionary just by chance.

Dada was more a state of mind then an actual process. Just an attack against society.

I love Dada!!!

Hugo Ball read this sound poem as one of his art pieces, read slowly and solemnly. enjoy

Karawana
olifanto bambla o falli bambla
großiga m'pfa habla horem
russula huju
egiga goramen
higo bloiko
 hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
ataka
ü üü ü
schampa 
blago bung blago bung
bosso 
fwulla wussa olobo
hej tatta gorem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluwu ssubudu
–umf
kusa gauma
ba–umf

He is breaking apart language.

Marcel Duchamp believed that art should be intellectual more then aesthetically pleasing. It's not aesthetic, but more about thinking. 'Art is hard.'

His most famous work, and the one that i love to quote and talk about is his work called 'The Fountain' 1917.

The Fountain, Marcel Duchamp 1917

He entered this piece into an open exhibition, which was rejected. This did not surprise him, thus Duchamp wrote a rebuttal about it saying, wether it is a urinal or not, it was chosen by the artist. No it's not about the urinal placed on its side, but its about the concept, the phycological thought side. He believes that we can not base art on imagery but on concept.
He has challenged the whole world with this new Avante Guarde approach.

Marcel Duchamp was the creator of conceptual art, well above and beyond his time. He uses ready mades, and found objects, taking items manufactured and edits them by placement or slight changes.

Jean Arp Another Dadaist wrote this,
"Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds." -Dadaland (1948)

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