Art Movements Ism'S: Evolution of Aesthetics, Culture & Technology

Evolution of Aesthetics, Culture & Technology
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ART MOVEMENTS
ISM’S
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Chronological Order
◦ Mannerism (mid 1500s)
◦ Neo classism (mid 1700s)
◦ Romanticism (late 1700s- early 1800s)
◦ Realism (France, mid 1800s)
◦ Impressionism (late 1800s)
◦ Post Impressionism (very late 1800s and into the turn of the 20th
century)
◦ Symbolism (Turn of the twentieth century)
◦ Cubism (first two decades of 1900s)
◦ Surrealism (birth in 1924)
◦ Abstract Expressionism (birth in 1940s)
Art Movements- ISM’s
◦ An art movement is a tendency
or style in art with a specific
common philosophy or goal,
followed by a group of artists
during a restricted period of
time.
◦ As the names of many art
Details from Lascaux
movements use the -ism suffix caves paintings
(for example cubism and
mannerism), they are sometimes
referred to as isms
Mannerism
Mannerism
◦ Mannerism is a period of European art that
emerged from the later years of the Italian High
Renaissance around 1520.
Ignudi from Michelangelo's

Sistine Chapel ceiling
Mannerism
◦ Mannerism encompasses a variety of
approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the
harmonious ideals associated with artists.
◦ Mannerism is notable for its intellectual
sophistication as well as its artificial (as opposed
to naturalistic) qualities.
Leonardo da Vinci’s
Battaglia di Anghiari
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism
◦ Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in
the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music,
and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical"
art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.
◦ It was born in Rome in the mid-18th century, but its
popularity spread all over Europe.
◦ Neoclassicism is a revival of the styles and spirit of classic
antiquity inspired directly from the classical period, which
coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy
and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment.
Venus Induces Helen to Fall
in Love with Paris, 1790
Jacques-Louis
David, Oath of the
Horatti, 1784
The artist moved to despair at

the grandeur of antique
fragments, 1778–79
Romanticism
Romanticism
◦ Romanticism (also the Romantic era from 1800 to
1850 ) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual
movement that originated in Europe toward the
end of the 18th century.
◦ Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis
on emotion and individualism as well as
glorification of all the past and nature.
◦ Romanticism assigned a high value to the
achievements of "heroic" individualists and artists,
whose examples, it maintained, would raise the
quality of society.
Caspar David Friedrich,
Philipp Otto Runge, The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,
Morning, 1808 1818
Realism
Realism
◦ REALISM led by Courbet ,was an artistic movement
that began in France in the 1850s.
◦ It sought to portray real and typical contemporary
people and situations with truth and accuracy.
◦ Its work depicted people of all classes in situations
that arise in ordinary life.
Old
Barrister
bridge –
james abott
Stone Breakers – Gustave
Courbet
Realism
Impressionism
IMPRESSIONISM
◦ Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated
with a group of Paris-based artists
◦ Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small,
thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on
accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities
◦ inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human
perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
IMPRESSIONISM
◦ It is an art of immediacy and movement, of

candid poses and compositions, of the play of
light expressed in a bright and varied use of
colour.
Post-
Impressionism
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
◦ Post-Impressionism developed from Impressionism. during
the 1880s.
◦ Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-impressionism,
Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism,
some later Impressionists' work
Henri Paul Gauguin

Rousseau Charles Laval
Post-Impressionism
Theo Van Paul Signac Henri

Symbolism
SYMBOLISM
◦ SYMBOLISM was a late 19th century art movement
of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and
other arts.
◦ The name "symbolist" itself was first applied by the
critic Jean Moréas, who invented the term to
distinguish the symbolists from the related decadents
of literature and of art.
◦ The term "symbolism" is derived from the word
"symbol" which derives from the Latin symbolum, a
symbol of faith, and symbolus, a sign of recognition.
Victor Vasnetsov, The Knight
Mikhail Nesterov’s, The Vision of the
at the Crossroads
Youth Bartholomew
Cubism
-THE FIRST FORM OF ABSTRACT ART
Three musicians (1921)

What is CUBISM?
◦ CUBISM was a 20th century art movement, pioneered by
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized
European painting and sculpture, and inspired related
movements in music and literature.
Pablo Picasso Georges Braque

CUBISM-The Movement
1. Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short

but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in
France.
2. Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained

vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained
popularity.
CUBISM-Characteristics
1.Objects are shown from multiple perspectives at once.

2.Everything is portrayed with geometric shapes.
3.It portrayed a “new way of seeing,” which infused
observations and memories into paintings.
Some Examples of Cubist
Painting
Portrait of Women with a Still Life with

Daniel- Guitar by Fruit Dish and
Henry by Georges Braque Mandolin, by Juan
Picasso Gris
Surrealism
SURREALISM
◦ SURREALISM is a cultural movement that began in the early
1920s
◦ is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
◦ Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with
photographic precision, created strange creatures from
everyday objects and developed painting techniques
The women
with her
throat cut –
by Alberto
Giacometti
The Elephant celebes by Max

SURREALISM
• Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected
juxtapositions and non sequitur
• Surrealism developed largely out of the Dada activities
during World War I and the most important center of the
movement was Paris.
The red tower

Automatic drawing
; by Andre Masson
ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM
Mountains and Sea

-Helen Frankenthaler
What is ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONISM?
• ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM was an art movement by Arshile
Gorky whose paintings were derived from the art of
Surrealism, Picasso, and Miro.
• The movement originated in New York’s Greenwich Village
in the mid-1940’s.
• The movement's name is derived from the combination of
the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German
Expressionists.
• Paintings usually contained a lot of orange or blue.
• Not only painters, but sculptors, photographers and
filmmakers were apart of the movement.
Abstract Expressionalism had two streams:
1.Action Painting
(late 1940’s – late 1950’s)
Untitled by The Moon Woman by

Franz Kline Jackson Pollock
2. Color Field and Hard-Edge
Painting (early 1960’s)
Who's Afraid of Red,

Yellow and Blue?
By
White Center by
Barnett Newman
Mark Rothko

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Ignudi from Michelangelo's

The artist moved to despair at

◦ It is an art of immediacy and movement, of

Henri Paul Gauguin

Theo Van Paul Signac Henri

Three musicians (1921)

Pablo Picasso Georges Braque

1. Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short

2. Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained

1.Objects are shown from multiple perspectives at once.

Portrait of Women with a Still Life with

The Elephant celebes by Max

The red tower

Mountains and Sea

Untitled by The Moon Woman by

Who's Afraid of Red,

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