from impressionism to surrealism

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.