Painting Style Periods Flashcards
The Early Renaissance
(15th century) style of painting is represented by artists such as Masaccio, Botticelli, and Van Eyck. It included sacred Christian subject matter and mythological content used symbolically, as well as portraiture.
slides 60-62
The High Renaissance
(late 15th century and 16th century) style of painting is represented by masters such as da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. slides 64-67
The Baroque
(17th and early 18th centuries) style of painting is represented by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rubens. Baroque style tended to feature greater contrast between highlight and shadow, open composition, and more dynamic scenes than typically found in Renaissance paintings. slides 69-71
The Rococo style
(early 18th century) of painting gently satirized the customs of the age with humor. It was more intimate and graceful than Baroque painting, and tended to emphasize themes of love, sentiment, pleasure, and sincerity.
Artists such as Watteau and Boucher are representative of Rococo painting. 73
Genre
paintings depicts scenes, items, or events
from everyday life. Genre sometimes specifically refers to still lifes. 75
The Neoclassical x
(late 18th century) style of painting reflects the influence of the attention given to Classical antiquity and its compositional principles. A leading Neoclassical artist was Jacques-Louis David.77
The Romantic s
tyle of art was prominent in the first half of the 19th century. Artists produced dynamic works with an often surprisingly dark palette. 79-83
Impressionism
was a style that developed in the 1860s and 1870s in which artists sometimes painted outdoors on site, and often used a brighter, cheerful palette. They sought to “capture a moment’s glance” of the subject matter, thus reducing the fine detail of forms and figures. 85-86
The artists of the Post-Impressionist period
(1880s and 1890s) explored uniquely individualistic approaches to painting. These artists included Georges Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh. 88-89
Cubism.
Pablo Picasso was the leading figure in the early 20th century style that came to be known as
Cubism violates all conventions of traditional perspective and the depiction of space within a composition. 91-92
Expressionism
was a movement in the arts in the first three decades of the 20th century in German-speaking lands and Scandinavia. Expressionistic artists often explored the psychological aspects of difficult circumstances, and sought to evoke a powerful emotional response in the audience.94
Surrealism
was an early 20th century artistic movement that was influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud. Surrealism explores the subject matter of dreams and psychological associations of ideas and symbols. Salvador Dalí was a leading Surrealist.96-97
Abstract art
is artwork that is not in any way inspired by nor depicting forms or things from the real world. It explores the expressive qualities of formal design elements in their own right, apart from subject matter. 99-100
