EDU 151

Chapter 7

Introducing the World’s Art

Artistic Styles

Prehistoric Art (Primitive Art)

Unknown Cave Artists

Naturalist or Realistic Art (Realism)

Art that focuses on showing reality.

The artists attempted to make art objective and like the actual object.

Rembrandt

Leonardo DaVinci

John James Audubon

Winslow Homer

Georgia O’Keefe

Norman Rockwell

James Whistler

Grant Wood

Andrew Wyeth

Impressionism

Art that focuses on capturing the effect of light.

Artists painted what they perceived rather than what they knew to be there.

Impressionists were fascinated with color, sunshine, contrasts, light, reflection, and shadow.

They used color and light to represent and artist’s impression.

Mary Cassatt

Paul Cezanne

Edgar Degas

Edouard Manet

Claude Monet

Pierre August Renior

Vincent Van Gogh

Pointillism

An offshoot of Impressionism Art that uses small dots of different

colors that the eye blends together.

Georges Seurat

Expressionism

Paul Gaugin

Edward Munch

Abstract (in text: Abstract Expressionism)

Artists were intrigued with color and the physical qualities of paint: “What can I do with paint on canvas?”

The art has no recognizable subject, the focus is on color and media, often applied in a kinesthetic way.

Jackson Pollock

Hans Hoffman

Wassily Kandinsky

Willem DeKooning

Cubism

Art that represents three-dimensional objects as if made of geometric shapes and forms.

Pablo Picasso

Paul Cezanne

Georges Braque

Folk Art

Artworks created by people who have not had formal training in art, or who use nontraditional art media in ways that reflect their culture.

Grandma Moses

David Butler

Op Art

Art based on visual illusions and perceptions.

Victor Vaserly

Pop Art

Art that is based on images from everyday life and popular culture.

Andy Worhol

Jasper Johns

Surrealism

An artistic style concerned with fantasies or dreams.

Salvador Dali

Marc Chagall

Kinetic Art

art that moves or has moving parts

Mobile-Three-dimensional art that moves

Calder