modern art

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industrial revolution

factor in the rise of modernism, fast changes in tech

photography

made painters question their role in society

john rand

invented tin paint tubes

the interpretation of dreams

written by sigmund freud, influenced artists to use dreams to represent subjective experiences in art

starry night over the rhone

van gogh, painted at a spot on the banks of the river near the yellow house on the place lamartine

modernism

movement away from the traidtional modes of painting

impressionism

showed everyday objects & how they reacted with light

impressionist painters

wanted to capture fleeting moments

claude monet

founder/most productive practitioner of the french impressionist movement

outdoors

where impressionist artists painted

post-impressionism

phase in modern art where artists felt the need to go beyond the imitative style of impressionism, 1880-1900s

paul cezanne

he is considered. asthe impoortant bridge between impressionism & cubism

pablo picasso

cubism artist influenced by paul cezanne

salon des refuses

special exhibition in 1873 that featured rejected artworks

spheres/cylinders/cones

3 basic forms claude monet believed to make up nature

pneumonia

how did claude monet die?

vincent van gogh

post-impressionist painter/pioneer of expressionism, popular dutch painter

impasto technique

thick paint is applied on the surface, leaving brush/painting knife strokes

irises

1st painting done by van gogh at the asylum

theo

vincent van gogh’s brother

jean-francois miller

influenced van gogh’s earlier paintings in the netherlands

landscape under stormy sky

painted in arles after van gogh lost his ear

paul gaugin

post-impressionist painter that influenced van gogh’s art style

900

amount of paintings made by van gogh

expressionism

deeply personal style in art, communicates personal feelings

edvard munch

norwegiean painter/printmaker, expressionist painter born in 1863 in norway

the scream

edvard munch’s most famous work called “soul painting”

german expressionism

classification of works by 3 groups of expressionist artists

geometric forms

emphasized in post-impressionism

cubism

developed by pablo picasso & georges braque in 1907

les demoiselles d’avignon

pablo picasso painting, inspired by the tribal art of africa

louis vauxcelles

art critic that created the term cubism

analytical phase

phase of cubism where images were flat geometric planes

synthetic cubism

stage of cubism that uses bright colors, collages, & paper cutouts