PERIOD | DATE | ARTIST | SAMPLE IMAGE | COMMENTARY |
Impressionism | 1870's-1890's AD | Monet |
Thick stroke, contrast of colors, focus on light.
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Post Impressionism | 1880-1990 AD | Van Gogh |
Used color and divisionist ideas; Used dashed brushstrokes |
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Expressionism | 1900-1920 AD | Goya | Weightless figures; dreamlike atmosphere | |
Fauvism | 1990-1920 AD | Matisse | Wild brush work and strident colours, while their subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction | |
Cubism | 1907-1914 AD | Picasso | Represents all the surfaces of depicted objects in a single picture plane, as if the objects had had all their faces visible at the same time | |
Dada | 1916-1922 AD | Dali | Imitated Cubism | |
Bauhaus | 1920's-1940's AD | Kandinsky | An institute established in 1919 by Gropius from the old Weimar Academy of Fine Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts | |
Harlem Resistance | 1920's-1940's AD | Bearden | The creation of art and literature would serve to "uplift" the African American race | |
Surrealism | 1920's-1940's AD | Kahlo | Surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination | |
International Style | 1920's-1940's AD | |||
Abrstract Expressionism | 1945-1960 AD | |||
Op Art | 1960's AD | |||
Pop Art | 1960's AD | |||
Minimal Art | 1960's AD | |||
New Realism | 1970's-1980's AD | |||
Conceptual Art | 1970's-1980's AD | |||
Performance Art | 1970's-1980's AD | |||
Neo-Expressionism | 1980's-1990's AD | |||
Computer Art | 1980's-1990's AD | |||
Post-Modern Classicism | 1980's-1990's AD | |||
Victorian Revival | 1980's-1990's AD |