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| Meant "Wild Beasts" because their paintings were so simple in design, brightly colored and loose in brushstrokes. Tried to expand and intensify post-impressionist ideas. Unrealistic. |
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| Leader of the fauves. Studied with Gustave Mareau, who got him to greater freedom with his use of color. |
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| Artwork that communicated strong emotional feelings. Was a way for artists of the time to express themselves. |
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| Paula Modersohn-Becker (German Expressionist) |
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| Did over 400 paintings and 1,000 drawings. |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German Expressionist) |
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| Favorite theme was tension and the artificial elegance of the city. |
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| Kathe Kolwitz (German Expressionist) |
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| Art protested against the plight of the poor before and after WWI. |
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| Edvard Munch (German Expressionist) |
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| Favorite subjects were fear, suffering and death from his own life. |
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| Employs color, line, texture and unrecognizable shape and form. These contain no apparent reference to reality. Came about because some artists were veering away from literal interpretation of subject matter to focus attention on the formal qualities of their art. |
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| Wassily Kadinsky (Nonobjective Art) |
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| Gave up being a lawyer to paint, and unsuccessfully succeeded in other forms. Painted a water color that changed the course of art history. It had no subject matter that could be seen. |
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(Got its name from a painting done by Kadinsky)
Members in this group had wildly different styles, but were united by their desire to express their inner feelings in their paintings. |
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| Gabriele Munter (Blue Rider Group) |
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| Founder of the Blue Rider Group and used intense color, heavy outlines and simplified shapes to express emotion. |
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| Artists tried to show all sides of three dimensional objects on a flat canvas. Started with Cezanne's idea that all shapes in nature are based on the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. THey carried the idea farther by trying to paint 3D objects from many different angles. |
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| Had a long and productive life, painted more than cubism. Died in 1973 at 91. |
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| He worked on making the surfaces of a painting more interesting using colors, lines, shapes and texture. After WWI he started to add sand into his paint to pictures could be touchable. |
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| The movement ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms. Name was selected randomly from the dictionary. Members thought that European culture had lost all meaning and purpose. |
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| Exhibited the most ordinary and absurd objects as works of art. Example: Bike front mounted on a stool. SO DEEP. |
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| A style in which dreams, fantasy and the subconscious served as inspiration for artists. These artists rejected control, composition and logic. |
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| Had visions because he could only have one meal a week, all the other days he chewed gum. Visions inspired the groundwork for his works, then after eating he would finish them and possibly change some things. |
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| Salvador Dali (Surrealism) |
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| Most famous member of the surrealists. Some works were so bizarre and grotesque that some people have called them products of a madman. |
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*Was never truly a surrealist.
Fantasy was important to him. He worked with scraps of burlap, paper, glass and linen. Had almost 9,000 works of art based on his fantasies. |
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| Artists painted things common in their area. Some artists did not follow the artistic movements of Europe, they felt they were too complicated. Painted the American scene in a clear and simple way to be enjoyed by all. |
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| Grant Woods (Regionalism) |
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| Studied art in Europe then moved back to Iowa and started painting rural scenes using the style of realism. |
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| Edward Hopper (Regionalism) |
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| Was not a regionalist in the truest sense of the word, because he painted a region that was not his own. Famous for painting the desolate loneliness of New York City. |
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| *American Artists and a New Direction* |
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Stuart Davis: Was very strange, tacked some common objects together and painted that for a whole year.
Georgie O'keefe: Inspired by nature. Famous for her close up paintings of flowers.
Jacob Lawrence: Tradition in social protest as a child. Worked with poster paint and cut paper. |
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| Applied paint freely to huge canvases to express emotion and not have any subject matter. Started after WWII and gained interest, but was confusing and controversial. Pictured the canvas as a blank wall and wanted to focus more on the act of painting than the subject or the painting itself. |
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| Willem de Kooning (Abstract Expressionism) |
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| His most powerful and shocking paintings were his paintings of women. Some thought his paintings of women were grotesque, insulting and ugly. Wanted to express that women were a great deal more than just a pretty face. |
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| Jackson Pollock (Abstract Expressionism) |
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| He would lay a canvas down and walk around it using knives, sticks and brushes to splatter paint on them. The emotion was more important than the looks of his works. |
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| Deliberate manipulation of paint to create compositions noted for their quiet balance and harmony. |
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| Helen Frankenthaler (Color Field Painting) |
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| She thinned out her paint using turpentine and painted on an unprimed canvas so the paint would sink in and stain the canvas. This produced flowing, graceful freeform shapes of intense color. |
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| Portrayed images from popular culture without feelings. |
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| Famous for his images of coke bottles and campbell soup cans. |
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| Claes Oldenburg (Pop Art) |
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| He was famous for enlarging objects to abnormal sizes or changing the texture of objects. |
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| A style of art that tried to create an impression of movement in the picture surface by means of optical illusions. |
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| Only artist who truly did Op Art. Used color and lines to add a wavy, motion like aspect to her paintings. |
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| Importance was placed on the crisp precise edges of the shades in the painting. Had smoothe surfaces, hard edges, pure color, simple geometric shapes with great precision. |
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| Did stuff with O'Keefe and her flowers. >.> |
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| A style of art so realistic it looked photographic. |
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| Alfred Leslie (Photo Realism) |
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| Audrey Flack (Photo Realism) |
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| Andrew Wyth (Photo-Realism) |
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| Not a true photorealist. He goes beyond trying to show what people look like and tried to capture their essence. |
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