Art History Timeline

By picasshoe
  • Period: to

    Impressionism, Post Impressionism and Pre Expressionism/ Symbolism movement

  • Degas

    Degas
    Subjects: Ballerinas, indoor scenes //
    Style: Classical //
    Major works: The dance class, 1874 //
    Quote: "Art is not a sport" //

  • Renoir

    Renoir
    Subjects: People, High society //
    Style: Modern forms of leisure //
    Major works: Luncheon of the boating party, 1881 //
    Quote: "Enjoy the day"

  • Seurat

    Seurat
    Subjects: People (Parisian denizens) //
    Signature/ brushstrokes: Pointillism //
    Style/ mood: Balanced, Formal, Scientific //
    Major works: A Sunday On La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886 //
    Influenced: Understanding science of color

  • Gaugin

    Gaugin
    Subjects: People //
    Signature/ brushstrokes: mastery of color //
    Style/ mood: Blocky, Flat plains //
    Major works: The Vision After The Sermon, 1888 //
    Influence/d: Abstraction

  • Van Gogh

    Van Gogh
    Subjects: Self portrait, landscape, still life //
    Signature/ brushstrokes: Agitated, swirling //
    Style/ mood: Passionate, bold color, impasto, loneliness, desolation //
    Major works: The Starry Night, 1889 //
    Influence/d: Expressionism

  • Pissarro

    Pissarro
    Subjects: Plein air //
    Style: Balanced, emphasis on the effects of lights, short brush strokes //
    Major works: Two Young Peasant Women, 1891-1892 //
    Quote:"Do not define too closely"

  • Monet

    Monet
    Subjects: Cathedral, nature //
    Style: Short brush strokes //
    Major works: Stacks of Wheat, 1891 //
    Quote: "Color changes constantly"

  • Toulouse-Lautrec

    Toulouse-Lautrec
    Subjects: Theater, dances, bars //
    Signature/ brushstrokes: Put text in pieces //
    Style: "Good Time" //
    Influence/d: Caricature //
    Major works: At The Moulin Rouge, 1893-1895

  • Cezanne

    Cezanne
    Subjects: Landscapes //
    Signature/ brushstrokes: Blocky, geometric //
    style: Geometry of the shape or form //
    Major works: Still Life With Apples, 1895 //
    Influence/d: Picasso, cubism

  • Rousseau

    Rousseau
    Subjects: Animals, Mystery //
    Style/mood: Rhythmic beauty //
    Major Works: Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 //
    Influence/d: "God father of 20th century painting"- Picasso

  • Cassatt

    Cassatt
    Subjects: People //
    Style: Lines showed movement, Pastel, common events in women's lives //
    Major works: Young mother sewing, 1900 //
    Quote: "Mothers should care for children themselves"

  • Picasso

    Picasso
    Subjects: People //
    Style/mood: Expressionism, blue period //
    Major Works: The Old Guitarist, 1903 //
    Influence/d: Expressionism

  • Klimt

    Klimt
    Subjects: People, shapes //
    Style/mood: Symbolism
    Major Works: The Kiss, 1907- 1908
    Influence/d: Surrealist, expressionism

  • Edvard Munch

    Edvard Munch
    Subjects: People, sadness //
    Style/mood: Psychological themes, expressionism, pessimist, textured brush strokes //
    Major Works: The Scream, 1910 //
    Influence/d: Expressionism

  • Redon

    Subjects: Still life //
    Style/mood: Symbolism //
    Major Works: Orpheus, 1913 //
    Influence/d: surrealists, influenced by Poe