Painting: Styles & Techniques

Claude Monet Impression Sunrise, 1872Oil on canvas 48 x 63 cm

Impressionism- Paris-based art movement 1870’s – early 1900’s

Characteristics of Impressionist Painting:

•Small, thin brush strokes

•Visible brush strokes

•Emphasis on accurate depictions of light and changing qualities of light based on time

•Common, ordinary subject matter

• Mary Cassatt , Girl in a Garden, 1880

Claude Monet Haystacks (Sunset) 1891

initially in poetry and painting, originating

in Germany at the beginning of the 20th

century. Its typical trait is to present the

world solely from a subjective

perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect

in order to evoke moods or ideas

Edvard Munch The Scream, 1893

Expressionism

Beauford Delaney Self-Portrait, 1944 Art Institute Chicago

Robert Rauschenberg

Bed1955, oil and pencil on quilt, pillow and sheetOn wood supports

Juxtaposition: Bringing together radically different elements to create intentional clashes.

• Bed is one of Robert Rauschenberg's first combines, works in which he affixed cast-off items, such as tires or old furniture, to a traditional support.

• These bedclothes, legend has it, were Rauschenberg’s own, and the work is thus as personal as a self-portrait, or more so. "Painting relates to both art and life," Rauschenberg said. "(I try to act in that gap between the two.)“

Appropriation:

The re-use of an existing object or image; the act of taking possession of and/or re-assigning the purpose of an object, image or ideas.

Joyce Pensato

InstallationBatman ReturnsFriedrich Petzel Gallery2012

Installation Art:

describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space

Mr. Movie Star2007enamel on linen62 x 50 inches

Jackson Pollock

Dana SchutzSneeze, 2002 Oil on canvas, 48 x 48cm

Chuck Close Portrait Paintings

Two Candles, 1982 120 x 100 cm Oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago

Gerhard Richter

Christa with Wolfi 1964, oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago

Cathedral Square, Milan 1968, 275 x 290 cm

How does this process relate to the concept of memory?

Luc Tuymans Valley, 2007 Oil on canvas, 42 x 43 1/8 inches

Luc Tuymans Parade, 2004 Oil on Canvas, 51 x 71 inches

Luc TuymansThe Room, 2009 Oil on canvas 46 x 49 inches