Style Time Line

Romanticism, 1780–1850

Artists: Casper David Friedrich and William Blake.

Style: Romanticism portrays nature, emotion, personality, heroes and inner struggle. They portrayed this mainly with oil on canvas, some with water colour.

Image Link: http://www.artfortune.com/images/pages/romanticism_.jpg

Impressionism, 1870's - 1890's

Artists: Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

Style: The artist defined this movement by using small thin yet visible strokes with their paintbrush. They emphasized the use of light with these strokes and the passing of time.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edgar_Germain_Hilaire_Degas_032.jpg

Realism, 1848–1900

Artists: Jean- François Millet and Gustave Courbet

Style: Realism was artists painting real life. They didn’t draw from fantasy but from people they were observing in their day to day lives. Majority of artists kept paintings smooth in texture as they were trying to paint as though taking a photograph.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Courbet_auto-retrato.jpg

Post Impressionism,1880 - 1900

Artists: Paul Signac and Odilon Redon

Style: The artists used thick amounts of paint in vibrant colours on the canvas. Using distinctive brush strokes they emphasized geometric forms and painted “real life”.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signac.jpg

Expressionism, 1900 - 1920

Artists: Edvard Munch and Wassily Kandinsky

Style: Artists aimed to expressed their moods and emotions to gain reaction from the viewer. They did this by created abstract forms, these forms varied from clean straight edges to messy flowing and scratchy looking markings. 

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Scream.jpg

Fauvism, 1900 - 1920

Artists: Henri Matisse and Kees van Dongen

Style: They used textured brush work in bold colours. The subject matter lacked a lot of detail therefore formed in an abstract way.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dongen-Hat.jpg

Cubism, 1907 - 1914

Artists: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Style:  Simple geometric paintings either with a monochromatic or vibrant colour palate. The artists fascination was trying to depict a whole three dimensional form on one flat surface. This made the paintings extremely abstract.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violin_and_Candlestick.jpg

Futurism, 1909-1914

Artists: Filipo Tommaso Marinetti and Umberto Boccioni

Style: Artist were glorifying concepts of the future. They used strong line work and colours to create direction. Images looked broken up and scattered.

Image Link: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1wtt0lOl21qbhw1bo1_400.jpg

Surrealism, 1920s - 1940's

Artists: Salvador Dali and Max Ernst

Style:  The artist would juxtapose different objects together to create excitement and surprise their audience. Even though these were abstract forms they were depicted in a realistic way as if they actually existed.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L%27Ange_du_Foyeur.jpg

Abstract Expressionism, 1945 - 1960

Artists: Jackson Pollock and Jane Frank

Style: Abstract at its finest. The pieces look like someone has thrown paint in all directions over a canvas. It’s heavily textured and layered and it looks like a massive pile of frustration being released.

Image Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:No._5,_1948.jpg

Minimalism,1960-1975

Artists: Frank Stella and Barnett Newman.

Style: Minimalism strips art down to the only necessary elements. The work is simple yet bold and eye catching.

Image Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_68.178.jpg