[J.3] EXPRESSIONISM, FAUVISM, SYMBOLISM, ABSTRACTION, CUBISM

Expressionism

An opposition to academic standards and emphasized artist’s subjective emotion which overrides fidelity to the actual appearance of things. An intensely personal art form, personal feelings over his observation of it

True

True or false: expressionist art is representational meaning it is a representation of something

Vincent Van Gogh

Expressionist artist; greatest Dutch painter since the Baroque times. Works; The Starry Night, Sunflowers

Edvard Munch

Expressionist artist; a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intense, evocative treatment of psychological and emotional themes. Work; The Scream

Fauvism

Comes from the word fauve meaning wild beast. Used as a derogatory term because of its jaggedness. Characterized by the use of brilliant and bold luminous colors and spontaneous handling of paint

Henri Matisse

Leader of the fauves. His works feature a decorative quality with flat-patterned compositions in pure colors

The Red Studio

In Matisse’s work [answer] it was said that he didn’t have to use real perspective to paint a room because people were intelligent enough to understand

Symbolism

A movement providing an intellectual alternative to the purely visual painting of impressionists

Paul Cezanne

Symbolist artist; father of pre-cubism. Known for his simple handling of masses and planes and gives depth by structure, color and unconventional perspective

Paul Gauguin

Symbolist artist; the colors he used are bright and he often painted tropical landscapes and brown skinned natives

Abstraction

A movement of conscious and methodological destruction of a recognizable subject in appearance

Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract artist; credited with the first purely abstract work. An influential Russian painter and art theorist

Cubism

Showed objects in their basic geometric shapes. Distorted realism

Collage

Phase in Picasso’s art; textural effects using paper and other materials in the composition

Blue Period

Phase in Picasso’s art; painting of beggars and miserable humanity

Rose Period

Phase in Picasso’s art; painted circus subjects

Georges Braque

Leader of cubism. His cubist compositions aimed to represent the world as seen from a number of different viewpoints. Works; Piano and the Mandola, Violin and Candlestick

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor. Best known as co-founder of cubism. Known as the father of collage

Marcel Duchamp

More associated with Dadaism and Surrealism but first forayed in cubism