Modern Art Movements

Concerned with a well-defined sociopolitical agenda advocating revolution in society and in art

Objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in abstracted form. 

Emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational 

Favored openness or clarity as opposed to the dense painterly surfaces of abstract expresionism

Depictscenes of everyday life without any attempt at idealization

A return to representational art. Materials are drawn from everyday popular culture. 

This movement stresses the weird, the fantastic, and the dreamworld of thesubconscious.

This anti-art movement was the product of the turbulent and cynical post-World War I period, 

Untaught,coarse, rough art, done in the way that a child or the mentally unbalanced would paint

Characterizedby linear decorative designs that were reminiscent of modern technology.

Decorativestyle and dedication to natural forms was internationally popular from 1880 to1910

An emotional or spiritual vision of the world. Two factions: Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter

Resemblance to reality while also retaining a dream-like or fantastical quality.

Captured the atmosphere of a time of day, light or the effects of different weatherconditions.

Artists shared a common desire to express spiritual truths through their art (color)

Epitome of existentialist humanity, thin, featureless, and have rough, agitated surfaces

Broad simplification and machinelike finish of the design components. 

Disenchanted with contemporary academic painting, emulated the art of the early Renaissance

The1960s movement known as Optical Painting is characterized by geometrical forms 

expressing of extreme emotion through high-keyed color that was very often non-naturalistic

George Seurat sought to make Impressionism more precise and formal.

An emphasis on an artwork’svisual elements rather than its subject.