- •Answer the following questions. Be explicit:
- •Think over the following questions, looking at a painting: Reading a painting: general questions
- •Study the following text:
- •How to Read a Painting - 1
- •How to Read a Painting - 2
- •Study the following information: some styles of painting:
- •Find additional information about different painting styles: a list of the styles of painting:
- •Study the information on painting types. Look at some of the reproductions: Types (Genres) of Painting
- •Examples of Famous Paintings In All Genres
- •Portraiture Genre
- •Genre-Paintings
- •Landscape Genre
- •Still Life
- •Analyzing portraits:
- •Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa (Gioconda)
- •"The Morning Walk" by Th. Gainsborough
- •Analyzing landscapes:
- •«Тайная вечеря»
- •In front of the painting ‘Boyarina Morozova’
Study the following information: some styles of painting:
abstract expressionism Movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values, surface qualities of paint, and the act of painting itself. Pollock, de Kooning, Motherwell, and Kline, are important abstract expressionists.
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Pam Sanders Encounters |
cubism A revolutionary movement begun by Picasso and Braque in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints. |
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Marc Chagall Lovers in Moonlight |
expressionism Refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion. More specifically, it refers to early twentieth century northern European art, especially in Germany c. 1905-25. Artists such as Rouault, Kokoschka, and Schiele painted in this manner. Wassily Kandinsky Ludwig Kirchner Edvard Munch |
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Wassily Kandinsky "Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula" |
impressionism A late-nineteenth-century French school of painting. It focused on transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and color. Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro were important impressionists.
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Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise |
pointilism A method of painting developed by Seurat and Paul Signac in the 1880s. It used dabs of pure color that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neoimpressionism.
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Paul Signac, Grand Canal (Venice) |
pop art A movement that began in Britain and the United States in the 1950s. It used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way. Works of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Oldenburg exemplify this style.
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Andy Warhol, Campbell's Tomato Juice Box |
postimpressionism A term coined by British art critic Roger Fry to refer to a group of nineteenth-century painters, including Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, who were dissatisfied with the limitations of expressionism. It has since been used to refer to various reactions against impressionism, such as fauvism nd expressionism. |
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Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach |
Primitivism - Art which looks like it's been painted by a child. Very plain, simple and 2-d Paul Klee Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line) |
realism In a general sense, refers to objective representation. More specifically, a nineteenth century movement, especially in France, that rejected idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subjects. Daumier, Millet, Da Vinci and Courbet were realists. |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, A Corner of the Moulin de la Galette |
surrealism A movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects. Magritte, Dali, Miro, and Ernst painted surrealist works. |
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Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory |