Modern Art: From Impressionism to Expressionism

Russ McNeilImpressionismPost-impressionismFauvismPointillismArt NouveauSymbolismGroup of SevenExpressionismSurrealism Malaspina Great Books

ImpressionismAn attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour.

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta

Adolphe-William Bouguereau (1825-1905) The Knitting Girl

Claude Monet (1840-1926) Houses of Parliament

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier and Her Children

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) The Chestnut Trees at Osny [note: Impressionist martyr]

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) In a Park Note: Manet Influence

Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) Sunset at Ivry

Frederic Bazille (1841-1870) Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The Rehearsal

Edouard Manet (1832-1833) Luncheon on the Grass

Post-impressionism

Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in different directions.

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) Mont-St-Victoire (1885)

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Spirit of the Dead Watching

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Van Gogh Night Cafe

Van Gogh Starry Night

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins

Henri Julien Felix Rousseau (1844-1910) The Dream

Fauvism Short lived movement but one that marked the advent of Modernism. The style of painting, using non-naturalistic colors, was one of the first avant-garde developments in European art.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) The Joy of Life

Pointillism Form of painting in which the use of tiny primary-color dots is used to generate secondary colors

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) [neo-impressionist]

Art NouveauArt Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines.

Alphonse Mucha (18601939)

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)

Symbolism Late 19th c. movement that influenced many modern trends.

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)Smiling Spider

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898 )

Group of SevenGroup of Seven artists were strongly influenced by Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau and Symbolism - creating bold, vividly-colored canvases, and instilling elements of the landscape with symbolic meaning.

Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945 ) North Shore, Lake Superior

A. J . Casson (1898-1992 ) White Pine

Lionel Fitzgerald (1890-1956) Doc Snider's House

Edwin Holgate (1892-1977) Canadian Destroyers, Halifax

A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974) Houses of Ypres

Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) Canadian Jungle

J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932)Oaks, October Morning

F.H. Varley (1881-1969) Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay

Frank Johnston (18881949) Camp Borden (1919)

Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior, 1924

Lawren Harris Miners Houses, Glace Bay

Expressionism

Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Couple Riding

Franz Marc (1880-1916) Yellow Cow

Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) - Nude -- Caryatid

Edvard Munch (1863-1944 )Dead Mother

Gershon Iskowitz (1921-1988 ) Sky

Kathe Kollwitz(1867-1945 )

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Surrealism Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind.

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) Metaphysical Interior with Factory

Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) Indefinite Divisibility

Dorothea Tanning (1910-) Ein klein nachtmusik

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)