ART

Isabelle Beaubreuil (Ac. Limoges)

HIGH RENAISSANCE

This period was the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. It was also a period of exploration, invention and discovery. Anatomists and artists found the body to be a marvel of mechanics and beauty. The best-known artists included Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.

The Mona Lisa , Leonardo Da Vinci (1503)

REGIONALISM

This American realist modern art depicts realistic scenes of rural and small-town America, mainly in the Midwest and Deep South. This movement grew out of the desire of American artists to end their dependence on European culture.

American Gothic , Grant Wood (1930)

POP ART

This art movement emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the USA. It incorporates elements of popular culture and consumerism, such as advertising, comic books and ordinary cultural objects. They also used images from films and television.

Girl with Hair Ribbon , Roy Lichtenstein (1965)

SURREALISM

This cultural movement began in the early 1920s. Artists painted strange, illogical scenes with photographic precision. They also created strange creatures from everyday objects and empty or catastrophic landscapes. Surrealist artists initiated the revival of imagination.

The Persistence of Memory , Salvador Dali (1931)

NEOPLASTICISM

This Dutch artistic movement was founded in 1917 in Leiden and it consisted of artists and architects. They used forms and colours and they simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colours.

Piet Mondrian (1920)

EXPRESSIONISM

It was a modernish movement originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. The artist didn't try to reproduce objective reality. The goal was to depict subjective emotions that a person felt in response to objects and events. They used distortion, exaggeration and fantasy.

The Scream, Edvard Munch (1893)

CUBISM

One of the most influential styles of 20th-century modern art, cubism rejected many of the traditional techniques of painting. Cubist painters didn't imitate nature in their art. Instead, they emphasized geometric forms and the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture. Cubist artists depicted radically fragmented objects.

The Weeping Woman , Pablo Picasso (1937)

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

This French art movement developed between 1886 and 1905 and rejected the limitations on Impressionism (which wanted a natural depiction of light and colour.) Post-Impressionists used vivid colours and thick application of paint. They emphasized geometric forms and used unnatural colours.

Starry Night , Van Gogh (1889)