Neoclassicism Romanticism (intellect) (emotions)

RealismImpressionism

Post-Impressionism

Seurat & Cezanne

analytical

Van Gogh & Gaugin

expressive

Abstract Art (Cubism)

• design

Expressionistic Art(Fauves & Expressionism)

• feeling

Fantasy Art(Surrealism)

• imagination

18th century

19th century

20th century

Naturalism – style of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail – not idealized

Representational – seeks to depict the appearance of reality

Abstraction – does not represent a being, place or thing; can also refer to a being, place or thing in a simplified generalized manner such as using a circle to represent the sun

Non-Representational - abstract

Expressionism – art that is the result of the artist’s unique inner or personal vision, often with an emotional dimension. Expressionism contrasts with art focused on visually describing the empirical world

The Role of the Viewer

“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it is finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.” -Pablo Picasso (1935)

“I don’t think of my work ever as a complete thing. I think of it as a tool to get someone off on their own vision.”

-James Rosenquist (1972)

“There is reciprocal action between a work of art and each viewer.”

-Anselm Kiefer (1985)

Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814

West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771

Picasso, Guernica,

1937

De Kooning, Woman I, 1950–1952

Ingres, Princesse de Broglie, 1853

Leger, Woman with a Cat, 1921

Fuseli, The

Nightmare, 1781

Munch, The Scream, 1893

Gorky, Agony, 1947

Kandinsky, Improvisation 28,

1912

Ellsworth Kelly, Red, Blue, Green,

1963