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As the photograph captured reality, art began to capture what was really there. The slide show attempts to capture the paradigm shifts in art from impressionism through surrealism. It is basically pretty pictures in the dark, with some hallmarks of the movements pointed out for students.
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Art Revolution
Impressionism
Sought to capture reality (emotion) through color and motion.
Claude Monet
Optics: He broke down parts.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Color
Post Impressionism
Impressionism, but more complex.
Georges Seurat
“pointillism” or painting with one point at a time.
Vincent Van Gogh
ENERGY & COLOR!
Paul Cezanne
Formal design and geometric shapes.
Fauvism
“wild beasts”
Paul Gauguin
Henri Matisse
Wild colors, flat texture.
Cubism
Space violates all concepts of two-dimensional and three-
dimensional perspective
Georges Braque
Pablo Picasso
Paint “not objects, but the space they engender.”
Advertising Art
At the turn of the century advertising and art started to meld
together.
Surrealism
Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no
intention of making the artwork logically comprehensible.
Rene Magritte
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my
pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery
means nothing either, it is unknowable."
Salvador Dali
Used dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world.
M.C. Escher
Revolution or Evolution?
See how “truth” and what we “see” changes from movement to
movement.