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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch's personal understanding of modern Psychology laid the foundation for a new movement in painting. He wrote in his journal on this date, “I painted impressions from my childhood-the blurred colors from those times. By painting the colors, lines and shapes that I recognized from a time touched by emotion, I was able just like a phonographic, to stir up the same emotional mood” . -
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was an artist who used long brush strokes to express how he felt. He painted the world as he felt it instead of how it really looked. -
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Expressionism
The term expressionism is used to signify the use of distortion and exaggeration in the interests of emotional effect. Unlike the Impressionists, who tried to recreate an impression of the objective world, the expressionism art style was concerned with the imposition of the artists own personality, feelings and emotions onto their representation of the world. The Expressionist artists wanted to capture their emotional response to the world around them, rather then just recreating what they saw. -
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
With the publication of this book the entire world became interested in understanding their selves and their dreams. He proposed that dreams were the key to understanding your self better. Artists became intersted in using art to express ideas and learn about their selves. -
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born more than 120 years ago (1881) in Malaga, Spain. He is famous for being the co-founder of Cubism which is a style of painting where objects of the painting subject are broken up and re-painted in an abstract form. -
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Cubism
As with most modern art movements, Cubism sprang from a desire to break with the past and change the meaning of art. Cubism followed on directly from the work of Paul Cezanne, who was very concerned with structure and breaking down objects into their simplest forms, as well as emphasising the multiple viewpoint of binocular vision. -
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Futurism
The Futurism art movement celebrated technology, modernity, speed, violence and youth; it glorified war and was in favour of the growth of Fascism. The Futurism movement really began with the publication of the poet Filippo Marinetti’s Futurism Manifesto, in Le Figaro in February 1909. The manifesto was passionate and bombastic in tone, expressing disdain for anything old, particularly in the fields of art and politics. One could be forgiven for thinking that the primary aim of the manifesto was -
Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was one of the first artist to paint abstract forms. Kandinsky was trying to create the same effect on a viewer of his paintings as a beautiful piece of music has on a listener. When you listen to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, for example, you don’t see snow or swirling fall leaves, or a muddy spring garden after a rain storm. You feel the seasons happening but you don’t actually see them. This is what Kandinsky was trying to do in his paintings. -
Gino Severini
Gino Severini (1883-1966) was is a member of the Futurist art movement both politically and artistically. He analysed light, movement and events, which happened after one another but are linked by memory. The attached painting is titled "Armored Train" and depicts objects from the soldiers to the smoke coming out from the cannon, broken into facets and planes, suggesting action and movement. -
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De Stijl Movement
Artist who were part of the De Stijl movement promoted utopian ideals and believed and believed in the birth of the new age in the wake of WW1. They felt it was a time of balance between individual and universal values. This movement in art is largely abstract and symbolic. -
Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a memeber of the De Stijl art movement. He reduced his painting to geometric abstractions. He said that his work was the result of geometric expression of oneself. Mondrian began producing grid-based paintings in late 1919, and in 1920, the style for which he came to be renowned began to appear. -
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Surrealism
Surrealism is a movement in art that directly applies Psychology and Art. Artist attempted to paint their dreams and their deepest emotions. They used many techniques that would help put them in a dream like state to create art. Their work has been very useful in helping understanding the connection between art and understanding self. -
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was a spanish painter who started the surrealist movement. Dali not only related theories of Psychology to his creative process but also combined Freud’s rich symbolic dream language into the imagery in his paintings. Look at the picture attached "The Persistence of Memory." The melting clocks portray the idea that time is not always steady. That weird shape in the middle of the painting is a face. It was based on a rock formation off the shore of Catalonia, Spain. -
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a mexican painter who painter who used the details of her life as powerful symbols of her psychological pain. Frida became one of the world's most talked about artists of the 20th century. Despite her fame, Frida painted mainly for herself. "I paint because I need to," she said, "and I paint whatever passes through my head." In her self-portraits, Frida is surrounded by things that are important to her—a monkey, a cat, plants. -
End of World War 2
The history of the later twentieth century, begining with the end of World War II Iin1945, is one of upheaval, change, and conflict. After this day is emergence of Postmodernism movement in art.
