1 Painting Styles, Movements, and Techniques

2 Impressionism An art movement during the 19th centuryThey sought to portray natural beauty in their surroundings at a given moment Their brush strokes were short and “broken” often using unmixed colors to show spontaneity

3 Examples of Impressionist Artists:Ballet Rehearsal by Edgar Degas 1873

4 Examples cont. Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine by Paul Cézanne 1887 The Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet 1899

5 Cubism An art movement in the 20th centuryObjects were portrayed in many different angles all at once (there wasn’t one fixed angle) Objects are taken apart and reshaped by the use of flat intersecting planes

6 Examples of Cubist Artist:Violin and Checkerboard by Juan Gris 1913

8 Pointillism small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.

9 Examples of pointillismPaul Signac, Femmes au Puits, 1892, Seurat's La Parade de Cirque (1889)

10 Surrealism A radical approach to art that focuses on the subconscious.Surrealist activity extends beyond traditional art forms to include revolutionary political ideas and actions by using juxtapositions

11 Surrealism examples Max Ernst, L'Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme (1937

12 Surrealism Examples Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921)