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Expressionism
Expressionist art tried to convey emotion and meaning rather than reality. Each artist had their own unique way of "expressing" their emotions in their art. In order to express emotion, the subjects are often distorted or exaggerated. At the same time colors are often vivid and shocking. The Scream (Edvard Munch) This painting shows a man standing on a bridge. His hands are on his face and he is screaming. The sky behind him is red and swirling. The picture expresses the emotion of a person alone in their anguish and anxiety. Munch made four versions of this picture. One of them sold for over $119 million in 2012. https://www.ducksters.com/history/art/expressionism.php Expressionist Artist. Edvard Munch Paul Klee Egon Schiele Donray Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Marc Chagall Kathe Kollwitz Max Pechstein Franz Marc Jean-Michel Basquiat Norris Embry Joe Boudreau Frank Holliday |
Cubist Artist
Pablo Picasso George Braque Juan Gris Paul Cezanne Marc Chagall Marcel Duchamp Fernand Léger. Albert Gleizes André Lhote Alexandra Nechita Francis Bacon Peter Blume Belin Michael Lang |
Cubism
Cubism was an innovative art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. In Cubism, artists began to look at subjects in new ways in an effort to depict three-dimensions on a flat canvas. They would break up the subject into many different shapes and then repaint it from different angles. Cubism paved the way for many different modern movements of art in the 20th century. There were two main types of Cubism:
Gris organized Glass of Beer and Playing Cards according to a dominating pattern of vertical strips. … A coherently silhouetted beer mug might be established by shifting the vertical band that constitutes the right side of the mug upward so that the white outline becomes contiguous with the outline of the fully modeled form of the mug to its left. But this realignment would in turn disalign the continuity between the blue curvature on the orange wallpaper and the edge of the sand to the right, both forms constituting a view from above of the beer’s foam. Changes or transformations in the appearance of an object seem to occur in a number of directions: they follow the alternating rhythm of vertical bands but also the contrapuntal system of horizontal bands. Occasionally there is also a sense of transformations occurring in depth, as if Gris had peeled away the surface of certain vertical bands to reveal an alternate mode of representation or point of view beneath. https://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-in-art-11-juan-gris-glass-of-beer-and-playing-cards/ |
Fauvism
Fauvism ‘the wild beasts’) is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which included Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is characterised by strong colours and fierce brushwork The fauvists were interested in the scientific colour theories developed in the nineteenth century – particularly those relating to complementary colours. Complementary colours are pairs of colours appear opposite each other on scientific models such as the colour wheel, and when used side-by-side in a painting make each other look brighter. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/fauvism The dessert: harmony in red (The red room), 1908, is considered by some art historians to be Matisse's masterpiece. He was an ardent admirer of Japanese art and motifs. He developed his style using areas of flat, brilliant and often unnatural colour and invariably outlined his forms in a manner similar to Van Gogh. This fauvist painting has no central focal point. Famous Fauvists Henri Matisse Andre Derain Raoul Dufy Maurice de Vlaminck Robert Antoine Pinchon Abraham LaCalle Manel Anoro Tim Braden Haley Josephs Chuck Sperry John Nieto Ulpaiano Carrasco Project Examples |