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Artist: Georges Seurat
Title: A Sunday on the Island of the Grand Jatte
Date: 1884-1886
Style: Post-impressionism
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Artist: Mary Cassatt
Title: The Bath
Date: 1892
Style: Post-impressionism
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Artist: Paul Cezanne
Title: Mont Sainte-Victoire
Date: 1902-1904
Style: Post-impressionism |
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Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Red Room
Date: 1908-1909
Stle: Fauvism |
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Artist: Georges Braque
Title: The Portuguese
Date: 1911
Style: Cubism |
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Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Still Life with Chair-Caning
Date: 1912
Style: Cubism
Medium: Collage |
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Artist: Georges Braque
Title: Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe and Glass
Date: 1913
Style: Cubism
Medium: Collage |
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Artist: Gino Severini
Title: Armored Train
Date: 1915
Style: Futurism |
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Artist: Hans Arp
Title: Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
Date: 1916-1917
Style: Dada
Medium: Collage |
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Artist: MArcel Duchamp
Title: Fountain
Date: 1917
Style: Dada
Medium: Readymade |
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Artist: Piet Mondrian
Title: Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Date: 1930
Style: De stijl |
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Artist: Jackson Pollock
Title: Number 1
Date: 1950
Style: Abstract-expressionism
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Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Marilyn Diptych
Date: 1962
Style: Pop art
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Artist: Mark Rothko
Title: No. 14
Date: 1960
Style: Abstract-expressionism |
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Artist: Ellsworth Kelly
Title: Red Blue Green
Date: 1962
Style: Post Painterly Abstraction |
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Artist: David Smith
Title: Cubi XIX
Date: 1964
Medium: Sculpture |
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Artist: Donald Judd
Title: Untitled
Date: 1969
Style: Minimalism
Medium: Sculpture
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Artist: Robert Smithson
Title: Spiral Jetty
Date: 1970
Style: Land Art
Medium: Sculpture
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Artist: Krysztof Wodiczko
Title: The Homeless Projection
Date: 1986
Medium: Public Art |
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Artist: Lorna Simpson
Title: Stereo Styles
Date: 1988
Medium: Photography |
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1. Avant-garde is a term used to descrive formal innovation and "shocking" art
2. Avant-garde is also used to describe early 20th century art movements who attempted to connect formal innovation(usually abstraction) with social change and the transformation of society. The goal of the Avant-Garde is usually said to be to unite art and life. |
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| From the French term "papier colle" literally translated as" glued paper". Denotes a work of art in which found objects are glued to a planar surface or ground. |
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| The condition of painting's physical flatness. In most paintings from the Renaissance to the mid-19th century, the goal of painting was to create a believable illusion of space that hides the literal physical flatness of the painting. In much modern art, the goal of a painting is to develop, instead of hide, its flatness |
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| Associated with the American art critic Clement Greenberg' medium-specificity is the pursuit of essential characteristics of the artistic medium. Greenberg defines the essential characteristics of painting as the flatness of the canvas and the rectangular shape of the canvas. Greenberg wrote that painting should be painting and nothing else and described Jackson Pollock's paintings as pure surface. |
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| A predominantly sculptural American trend in the 1960's characterized by works featuring a sever reduction of form, often to single, homogeneous units. The goal of most Minimalist art is to reorient the viewer's perception from the work itself to the space where the work is exhibited |
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