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Byzantine 350 -450
Medieval 400-500 AD
Surrealism 1920-1930
Beginning in the mid-1920s, Surrealist captured the Modern imagination. In essence, Surrealism began as a direct spillover from the Dada movement in art and culture. The Surrealists wanted to explore through poetry and prose the psychic dimension of the human mind. A huge source of inspiration was the groundbreaking work of Sigmund Freud.
Continued Surrealism 1920-1930
What is important to understand is that
Surrealism was global, especially as early
Dada/Surrealists like Andre Breton and
Marcel Duchamp traveled the world.
Surrealism occupied artists in diverse locations, including Europe, the United
States, South America, and Mexico. The concept that the human mind could transcend the earthly plane was a central way to view the “absolute reality” described by Breton.
Continued Surrealism 1920-1930
By: Andre Breton
Abstract Expressionism 1905-1925
Abstract art is a form of modern and postmodern art that focuses on the power of each individual work to express compositions in a new way.
Abstract Expressionism 1905-1925
Born in 1914 in the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk, abstract artist Esphyr Slobodkina offers a glimpse of abstract art in the first half of the twentieth century. In Composition
(1940), oil on gessoed masonite, she creates forms using solid colors, including blue, purple, red, brown, grey, white and black. With simple shapes, the observer sees the importance of line. The abstract artist might intentionally use vertical, horizontal, or diagonal lines or simple shapes in a particular pattern to create movement or another visual effect. When shapes are not clearly defined in abstract art, other elements like color and line might become more important. Gessoed Masonite
Pop Art 1950-1960
Pop Art stands for everything commercial and cheap, including an assortment of capitalist concepts like convenient, plastic,
Byzantine 350 -450
Medieval 400-500 AD
Surrealism 1920-1930
Beginning in the mid-1920s, Surrealist captured the Modern imagination. In essence, Surrealism began as a direct spillover from the Dada movement in art and culture. The Surrealists wanted to explore through poetry and prose the psychic dimension of the human mind. A huge source of inspiration was the groundbreaking work of Sigmund Freud.
Continued Surrealism 1920-1930
What is important to understand is that
Surrealism was global, especially as early
Dada/Surrealists like Andre Breton and
Marcel Duchamp traveled the world.
Surrealism occupied artists in diverse locations, including Europe, the United
States, South America, and Mexico. The concept that the human mind could transcend the earthly plane was a central way to view the “absolute reality” described by Breton.
Continued Surrealism 1920-1930
By: Andre Breton
Abstract Expressionism 1905-1925
Abstract art is a form of modern and postmodern art that focuses on the power of each individual work to express compositions in a new way.
Abstract Expressionism 1905-1925
Born in 1914 in the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk, abstract artist Esphyr Slobodkina offers a glimpse of abstract art in the first half of the twentieth century. In Composition
(1940), oil on gessoed masonite, she creates forms using solid colors, including blue, purple, red, brown, grey, white and black. With simple shapes, the observer sees the importance of line. The abstract artist might intentionally use vertical, horizontal, or diagonal lines or simple shapes in a particular pattern to create movement or another visual effect. When shapes are not clearly defined in abstract art, other elements like color and line might become more important. Gessoed Masonite
Pop Art 1950-1960
Pop Art stands for everything commercial and cheap, including an assortment of capitalist concepts like convenient, plastic,