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Impressionism
The Impressionism movement began in the 19870s, and moved through the decade. With many famous impressionistic artists, such as Monet, creating plentiful amounts of work. Pictured is Claude Monet's 1872 work Impression, Sunrise. -
Les Nabis
Les Nabis created work in the 1880's, moving from symbolism into post-impressionism, ending at Art Nouveau. Les Nabis was a group of artists creating a unified movement of new works throughout the time. -
Symbolism
Symbolism is another important movement of Modern Art, occurring and thriving during the 1880s, where we see artists like Gauguin creating works such as the one pictured here titled Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where are we Going?, which was not created until the 1890s, but exemplifies Gauguin's' symbolist work. -
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism came after impressionisms, where we see major artists like Gauguin again, as well as Van Goh. This movement continues for a while, leading to a lot of post-impressionistic work being created. Pictured is Van Goh's, 1889 Starry Night. -
Fauvism
Fauvism was a unified movement of artists creating symbolic and new works playing with color and movement. The most popular of the Fauvs may have been Matisse, his 1907 work Le Bonheur De Vivre is pictured here. -
Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism
Throughout the 1900s many movements come and go, from expressionism, to cubism, to futurism. Cubism, amongst the most popular aimed to break shapes down into geometrical form, while futurism focused on the nature of moving forward. One of my favorite futurist paintings is pictured, created in 1912 and titled A Dog on a Leash, created by futurist painter Giacomo Balla. -
Suprematism, Dada, Bauhaus,
from the 1910s-20s we see again, many movements come and go quickly. From Suprematism, where we see the famous work by Malevich, White on White, to Dada which is in direct response to WWII. We also see the Bauhaus movement which uses shape and color in new ways. -
Surrealism
From the Bauhaus movement we reach Surrealism, a movement again in response to WWI, where we see works pushing reality in response to the chaos. This is where magnificent and popular works such as Magritte and Dali rise to fame. Pictured is an example of Magritte's work, titled The Lovers, circa 1928.