Artist and Art Movement Study

Artwork Examples!

MOMA pictures! Museum of Modern Art in New York

Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans"

Andy Warhol's "Gold Marilyn Monroe"

Picasso's- "Les Demoiselle d' Avignon"

Jackson Pollock's- "White Light"

Andy Warhol

Pop Art Movement

Jasper Johns

Pablo Picasso

Born August 6th, 1928

Died 1987

Subject Matter: Pop art movement-mass culture of celebrities, advertisement.

Interesting Fact: Pioneer in computer generated art using Amiga computers in 1984

Whimsical colors bright color blocking

Emerged in the 1950s

Description of Art: Pop art meaning "popular" art. Pushed the boundaries of traditional art.

Mass culture, popular images, advertising, popular culture, news, comic books etc.

Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg.

Medium used: mixed media

Abstract Expressionism-Art Movement

Compare Henri Matisse's "Woman in Hat, 1905" and Sonia Delaunay's "Rhythme, 1938."

Cubism Art movement

Andy Warhol

Born in Spain on October 25th, 1881

Died April 8th, 1973- 91 years old.

Mediums used: painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, stage designer and playwright.

Interesting Facts:

1. Spent most of his adult life in France.

2. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

3. Founded the Cubism movement

Most famous works: "Les Demoiselles d' Avignon" and "Guernica"

Began during the 1910s-1920s.

Created by Pablo Picasso along with Georges Braque

Descriptions of Art: 20th Century Avant-Garde art movement, Geometric shapes, 3-D forms and harsh lines in the works

Wayne Thiebaud

Post WWII art movement in American painting

Formed in NYC in the 1940s

Medium used: Mixed media

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee and many more.

Pushing the limits of what could be called "art"

Description of Art: Avant-garde and expressing the artists' thoughts, feelings or emotions in a non-literal way.

Robert Rauschenburg

"Banana" was used for an album cover for the band called "The Velvet Underground"

"Campbell's Soup Cans" 1962

"Banana" 1966

Art Deco Art Movement

Jackson Pollock

Henri Matisse

Born in January 28, 1912

Died August 11, 1956--44 years old.

Interesting Fact: Influential American painter-major leader in the Abstract Expressionism movement.

Originated in the 1920s in Europe and then the US in the 1930s.

Subject Matter: Influenced visual arts, architecture, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movies, and more.

Description of Art: Decorative art, symmetrical geometric forms. Represented modernism, symbol for luxury

Medium used: mainly paint, multi-media

One of the classic Art Deco themes is that of 1930s-era skyscrapers such as New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building. Designed by architect William Van Alen, is considered to be one of the world's great Art Deco style buildings.

Subject Matter: Drip paintings that created abstract lines and shapes.

Famous work: "No. 5, 1948"

Born in France on December 1869

Died On November 3, 1954--84 years old

French Artist using many medias including printmaking, sculpture, painting and drawing.

Leader of the Fauvism movement

Subject matter: figures, landscape, portraits, still lifes.

Famous work: Woman in Hat 1905

Interesting Facts:

1. As he aged, he couldn't use his hands to paint any more. He began creating collages with scissors taped to his hands.

2. Revolutionized developments in art for decades-pushed the boundaries.

Vincent Van Gogh

Post Impressionism

"Guernica, 1937" -Pablo Picasso

Born on March 30, 1853 in the Netherlands

Died on July 29, 1890---37 years old

Post-Impressionistic Dutch artist

Subject matter: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, trees, fields and sunflowers.

Used mainly oil paints

Famous Painting: Starry Night 1889

Interesting facts: 1. Created over 2,100 artworks in his short life.

2. He was very close to his brother Theo Van Gogh, who was an art dealer. Vincent and his brother exchanged letters that recorded Vincent's ideas about his art.

Tamara de Lempicka

French Art movement 1886-to early 1900s.

Emerged from Impressionism movement

Artists involved: Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat.

Description of Art: Vivid colors, thick paint, real-life subject matters but they used more expressive strokes and shapes.

Mediums used: Oil Paint

Born in Poland on May 16, 1898

Died in 1980

Feminist- pushing boundaries for woman

Interesting fact: She spent her summers with her grandmother in Italy and loved the Renaissance Art movement.

Fauvism Art Movement

Fauvism is the style of Les Fauves, the French word for "the wild beasts."

Description of art: Group of modern artists that used wild strokes, colorful images, and realistic values like the Impressionists. Simplification and abstraction

Only lasted from 1904-1908.

Leaders of the movement-Henri Matisse and Andre Derain.

Google's design for Tamara's 120th birthday

"Young lady with Gloves" 1930

"Self Portrait 1929"

Art Movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists for a period of time.

Artist and Art Movement Study