Modern Art Movements

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

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

George Seurat sought to make Impressionism more precise and formal.

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

Emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Characterizedby linear decorative designs that were reminiscent of modern technology.

Depictscenes of everyday life without any attempt at idealization

The1960s movement known as Optical Painting is characterized by geometrical forms 

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

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

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

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

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

Broad simplification and machinelike finish of the design components. 

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

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