Transcript EDU 151 - Wayne Community College

EDU 151
Chapter 7
Introducing the World’s Art
Artistic Styles
Prehistoric Art (Primitive Art)
Unknown Cave Artists
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Naturalist or Realistic Art
(Realism)
Art that focuses on showing reality.
The artists attempted to make art
objective and like the actual object.
Rembrandt
Leonardo DaVinci
John James Audubon
Winslow Homer
Georgia O’Keefe
Norman Rockwell
James Whistler
Grant Wood
Andrew Wyeth
Impressionism
Art that focuses on capturing the
effect of light.
 Artists painted what they perceived
rather than what they knew to be
there.
 Impressionists were fascinated with
color, sunshine, contrasts, light,
reflection, and shadow.
 They used color and light to represent
and artist’s impression.

Mary Cassatt
Paul Cezanne
Edgar Degas
Edouard Manet
Claude Monet
Pierre August Renior
Vincent Van Gogh
Pointillism
An offshoot of Impressionism
 Art that uses small dots of different
colors that the eye blends together.

Georges Seurat
Expressionism
Paul Gaugin
Edward Munch
Abstract
(in text: Abstract Expressionism)
Artists were intrigued with color and
the physical qualities of paint: “What
can I do with paint on canvas?”
 The art has no recognizable subject,
the focus is on color and media, often
applied in a kinesthetic way.

Jackson Pollock
Hans Hoffman
Wassily Kandinsky
Willem DeKooning
Cubism

Art that represents three-dimensional
objects as if made of geometric
shapes and forms.
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cezanne
Georges Braque
Folk Art

Artworks created by people who have
not had formal training in art, or who
use nontraditional art media in ways
that reflect their culture.
Grandma Moses
David Butler
Op Art

Art based on visual illusions and
perceptions.
Victor Vaserly
Pop Art

Art that is based on images from
everyday life and popular culture.
Andy Worhol
Jasper Johns
Surrealism

An artistic style concerned with
fantasies or dreams.
Salvador Dali
Marc Chagall
Kinetic Art

art that moves or
has moving parts

Mobile-Threedimensional art
that moves
Calder