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Impressionism and Post Impressionism

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Impressionism Claude Monet,  Vetheuil in the Fog, 1879. (Foundation, 2017). Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting.  Its originators were artists who rejected the official, government-sanctioned exhibitions, or salons , and were consequently shunned by powerful academic art institutions.  The Impressionists loosened their brushwork and lightened their palettes to include pure, intense colors. They abandoned traditional linear perspective and avoided the clarity of form that had previously served to distinguish the more important elements of a picture from the lesser ones (Foundation, 2017).  Post Impressionism Georges Seurat,  Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1886. (Foundation, 2017).  Sources Consulted Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Impressionism . [Online] Available at: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-impressionism.htm [Accessed 10 September] Foundation, T. A. S., 2017. Post Impressionism . [O
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The Glasgow Four and Viennese Secession

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The Glasgow Four Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Untitled, n.d. (Pinterest, 2017) Art Nouveau in Glasgow, known as Glasgow Style, is the paradigm of the meaning of class that this new style adopted in the context of a major industrial metropolis. Glasgow in the 1890s was a financially rich city but one that had many social problems.   Pollution, ethnic violence, working class struggles, prostitution Furthermore Liquor addiction were simply a few of the issues that the rich classes needed on address through the formation of a social air that might highlight Furthermore provide for intending with individuals' exists (Artnouveau.eu, 2017).  Viennese Secession Joseph Maria Auchentaller, Aureol, 1 898. (Foundation, 2017) The creation of the Vienna secession for 1897 marked, truly accurately, the formal beginning of modern art in Austria - a country at the time noted to its connection to a highly conservative tradition. It might have been the combination of the first mo
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De Stijl

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De Stijl Gerrit Rietveld,  Red Blue Chair, 1923. (Foundation, 2017).  The Netherlands-based de Stijl development grasped an abstract, pared-down tasteful focused done fundamental visual components for example, geometric types Furthermore elementary shades. Mostly a response against the enlivening excesses for workmanship deco. Around the pioneering exponents about abstract art, de Stijl specialists espoused a visual dialect comprising of unequivocally rendered geometric manifestations - as a rule straight lines, squares, and rectangles--and essential shades (Foundation, 2017).   H. L. C. Jaffé, De Stijl, 1931. (Martinique, 2017).  Despite the fact that de Stijl specialists made created work embodying those movement's utopian vision, their acknowledgment that this dream might have been unattainable over this present reality basically achieved the group's downfall (Foundation, 2017). This is clear in the contemporary artwork showed above.  Sources consu
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Constructivism

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Constructivism Vladimir Tatlin, Design for the Monument the Third International, 1920. (Foundation, 2017). Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century.  It acquired thoughts from Cubism, suprematism and Futurism, in any case at its heart might have been a truly new approach with making objects, one which looked for to abrogate those universal aesthetic worry with composition, Furthermore replaceability it for 'construction (Foundation, 2017). Justuno, Untitled, n.d. (Cargocollective.com, 2017) Constructivism's concept and style is still used widely today because of the sharp colors and lines with the unique style that differs so widely from many other types of work. A wide variety of artist continue to carry out constructivism in modern day times.  It still is a very popular style used in propaganda today used predominately by Shepard Fairy.  Sources consulted Foundation, T. A. S., 20
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Expressionism

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Expressionism Wassily Kandinsky, Der Blaue Reiter, 1 903 (Foundation, 2017). Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about man's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality.  Expressionist artists often employed swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects. These techniques were meant to convey the turgid emotional state of the artist reacting to the anxieties of the modern world (Foundation, 2017).  Anselm Kiefer, Athanor, 1984. (Foundation, 2017).  The title of this painting, is also the name for the digesting furnace (a kind of oven) that alchemists used to try to transform base metals into gold.  Through the suggestion of the two buildings, and using an apocalyptic palette, Kiefer brings together the themes of alchemy and the Holocaust. The mottled and darkened surfac
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Cubism

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Pablo Picasso,  Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon, 1907. (Foundation, 2017).  Cubists explored open form, piercing figures and objects by letting the space flow through them, blending background into foreground, and showing objects from various angles. Some historians have argued that these innovations represent a response to the changing experience of space, movement, and time in the modern world (Foundation, 2017).  The subject matter of nude women was not in itself unusual, but the fact that Picasso painted the women as prostitutes in aggressively sexual postures was novel. Their blatant sexuality was heightened by Picasso's influence from non-Western art that is most evident in the faces of three of the women, which are rendered as mask-like, suggesting that their sexuality is not just aggressive, but also primitive (Foundation, 2017). Laura Barbosa, Nessie Loves Cherry Limeade, n.d. (Ebsqart, 2017). This contemporary artwork was done by an artist known as Lau
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Abstract Expressionism

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Clyfford Still, 1948, 1948. (Fountain, 2017) Abstract Expressionism is meant to encompass not only the work of painters who filled their canvases with fields of color and abstract forms, but also those who attacked their canvases with a vigorous gestural expressionism (Foundation, 2017). I n Still's artwork,  1948 , a large work that recalls natural shapes and phenomena reminiscent of cave stalagmites, caverns, and other mysterious elements that lie just beneath the surface of our everyday conscious recognition (Foundation, 2017).  David Smith, Cubi XII, 1963. (Foundation, 2017). David Smith is one of the series of sculptures in stainless steel that epitomize his mature career as an artist. It is an abstract composition of geometric figures - squares and rectangles, in a vertical arrangement and intended to stand out of doors like a sentinel or a totem (Foundation, 2017). This artwork is a clear example on an Abstract  Expressionist work of art.  Sources
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