2. ART HISTORY TIMELINE
Renaissance
1200
Cubism
Impressionism
Gothic
1400 1600
Baroque
1700
Rococo
1860
Neoclassism
1750
Post-Impressionism
1898 1905 1908
(Classicism)
(Classicism)
Fauvism &
Expressionism
1910 1913 1916 1924 1950 1958 1960 1978
Abstract Art
Constructivism
Dadaism
Surrealism
Optical Art
Pop Art
Conceptual Art
Minimalism
Digital Art
3. RENAISSANCE
•This movement began in Italy in the 14th century.
•Began in northern Italy and then spread through Europe.
•RENAISSANCE literally means rebirth in French.
•This art reflected back to the classical time of Rome and Greece.
•Oil painting on canvas started.
•Paintings took on three dimensions by the use of shadow and
light.
•Artists tried to show differences in proportions (meaning
size and location of one thing compared to another in the
painting) of their subject matter.
7. RENAISSANCE
Interesting fact
Women seen in renaissance paintings are always portrayed as prostitutes or
as a virtuous woman.
Italian women fashion was to be
Plump. FAT is IN !
They shaved their eyebrows
8. RENAISSANCE Home
PROFILE
Leonardo Da Vinci
Real name =Leonardo di ser Piero da
Vinci
means Leonardo the son of Piero da
vinci
D.O.B = April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519
Italy
scientist, mathematician, inventor, pa
inter, sculptor, architect, musician
and writer .
He is the FATHER of Renaissance
artists.
Left-handed and wrote in mirror
images .
Rumoured to have relationships with
his male pupils. – Homosexual
Died of old age
9. RENAISSANCE
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa or ―La Gioconda‖, 1517
Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm
Spent 4 years to paint Mona Lisa
It was a famous painting during the
Renaissance period but it became
even more famous in 1911.
WHY?
It was stolen by an Italian.
It resurfaced two years later in
Florence.
In 1956, an acid attempt damaged the
lower half of the painting.
10. RENAISSANCE
Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa or ―La Gioconda”
Oil on wood, 77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in)
Behind the painting
•The left finger was not completely
finished
•The elbow was repaired from
damage due to a rock thrown at the
painting in 1956.
•Beneath this painting are 3 different
versions of the painting.
11. RENAISSANCE
Leonardo Da Vinci
He painted it on the back wall of
the dining hall at the Dominican
convent of Sta Maria delle
Grazie in Italy.
Behind the painting
•The Knife one of the disciple is
holding.
•Is there a girl among the 12
supposedly male disciples?
The last Supper, 1495-1498
14. RENAISSANCE
Sandro Botticelli
Real name was Alessandro
Mariano di Vanni Filipepi
1445 – May 17, 1510 Italy
Known for his religious pictures
but his most famous works were
paintings of mythological creatures
and gods from ancient Greek and
Roman stories.
Not married. Afraid of it
Rumoured to be homosexual.
2 most famous paintings are
Primavera and The birth of venus.
18. RENAISSANCE
Michelangelo
Full name: Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni
D.O.B: 6 Mar 1475 – 18 Feb 1564, Italy
Painter, sculptor, engineer, architect,
poet.
Rival: Da Vinci
He was not married.
He liked the beauty of man. Most of his
Art works portrayed men.
20. RENAISSANCE
Michelangelo
David - about 5.17m tall
Gigantic marble,
1501 - 1504
•This statue represent David before
the battle with Goliath.
•It was built to commemorate the
independence of the Florentine
Republic
•Standing in the Piazza della
Signoria, the entrance to the
Palazzo Vecchi City, Italy.
•Sculpture was moved in 1873 to
the Accademia Gallery in Florence.
•Too many duplicates because it is
famous.
23. RENAISSANCE
Michelangelo
Creation of Adam, 1511
480 × 230 cm
•Painted on the ceiling of
the famous Sistine Chapel.
•Illustrates the Biblical story
which God the Father breathes
life into Adam.
27. IMPRESSIONISM KEY DATES: 1867-1886
•A French 19th century art movement which marked a momentous break
from tradition in European painting.
•The Impressionists incorporated new scientific research into the physics
of colour to achieve a more exact representation of colour and tone.
•Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the image of an
object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it.
•They paint the pictures with a lot of color and most of their pictures
are outdoor scenes. Their pictures are very bright and vibrant.
30. IMPRESSIONISM
Claude Monet
Full name: Claude Oscar Monet
D.O.B: 1840-1926, Paris
ran into financial difficulties and
attempted suicide in 1868
Well-known for landscape painting
especially nature.
Suffered from Cataracts
Died of lung cancer
31. IMPRESSIONISM
Claude Monet
Bridge over a Pool of Water Lilies
1899
a series of approximately 250 oil
paintings of water lilies.
In 2007, one of Monet's water
lily paintings sold for £18.5
million.
In 2008, another of Monet’s
water lily painting sold for £ 41
million
His good friends were Pissarro,
Cézanne, Renoir, Sisley, and
Bazille
34. NYMPHÉAS AVEC REFLETS DE HAUTES
HERBES, 1914-17
oil on canvas
130 by 200cm.
$14,137M
LE GIVRE À GIVERNY,1885
oil on canvas
54 by 71cm.
$13,785M
35. IMPRESSIONISM
Edgar Degas
Full name: Hilaire-Germain-
Edgar De Gas
D.O.B: 1834 –1917, Paris
One of the main founder of
Impressionism.
Well-known for portrait,
dancers and female nudes
Paintings.
Suffered eye problem
Friends called him eccentric.
36. IMPRESSIONISM
Edgar Degas
La famille Bellelli
Portrait de famille
1858 -1867
• Studied Art by doing copying
Painting at Louve Museum
• Extremely sensitive to bright
light and experienced a loss
of vision in his right eye
• lost a significant part of his
central vision by aged 40
• Had to stopped doing Art by
aged 57
38. IMPRESSIONISM
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Full name: Pierre Auguste Renoir
D.O.B: 1841 – 1919, France
often focusing on people in
intimate and candid compositions
Painting nude was one of his
primary subjects
39. IMPRESSIONISM
Pierre Auguste Renoir
•Known for his vibrant light and
saturated color, most often
focusing on people in intimate
and candid compositions
•Discovered that the color of
shadows is not brown or
black, but the reflected color
of the objects surrounding
them.
•Best friend is Claude Monet.
1876 Dance at Le Moulin
de la Galette
Most famous painting
40. Pierre Auguste Renoir
Le déjeuner des canotiers
(The Boating party)
Painted in 1881
Mdm. Charpentier and her children,
1878
41. Artist: Paul Cézanne
Date Painted: 1892/93
Art Style: Oil on Canvas
Sold To: Royal Family of Qatar Price (Date of Sale): $259-$320M (April 2011)
Adjusted Price Today: ~ $268.1 Million
42. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Post- Impressionism extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations:
• Use vivid colours
• Thick application of paint
• Distinctive brush strokes
•Use real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric
forms to distort form for expressive effect
• Use unnatural or arbitrary colour (not realistic colours of the object)
44. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Vincent Van Gogh
Full name: Vincent Willhem Van
Gogh
D.O.B: 1853 – 1890, Netherlands
Considered as Dutch Post-
Impressionist and the pioneer of
Expressionist.
Known to be eccentric. Did not
communicate with his family other
than his younger brother, Theo.
He wrote more than 600 letters to
him.
produced more than 2,000 artworks,
consisting of around 900 paintings
and 1,100 drawings and sketches
45. Vincent Van Gogh
•Three brothers, and three
sisters
•A medicine which blurred his
colour vision. – Yellow & Gold
•This is the only painting which
Van Gogh sold throughout his
Life when he was still alive
as an artist.
"The Red Vineyard"
Painted in1888
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
46. Vincent Van Gogh
•Eccentric behaviour started
After he got rejected by his long
Distant cousin.
•Found a gf who is a prostitute.
•Wore ragged, unwashed clothing,
Painted peasants.
"The Potato Eaters―
Painted in 1885
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
47. Vincent Van Gogh
Argued with his best friend,
Gauguin, cut off his ear and
gave it to a prostitute friend.
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Painted in 1889
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
48. Vincent Van Gogh
He painted this during his
Depression period, outside
The mental hospital which
He stayed before.
Starry starry night
1889
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
49. Vincent Van Gogh
One of his last paintings which
he completed in late July 1890.
After a few days later, Van Gogh
went for a walk and shot himself
in the chest.
"Wheat Field With Crows―
1890
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
51. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Paul Gauguin
Full name: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
D.O.B: 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903, Paris
Married but wad driven out of the
house
Depression and attempted suicide
Friend with Vincent Van Gogh
52. POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Paul Gauguin
Always arguing with Van Gogh
Was the cause of Van Gogh cutting his
ear
Speak ill of the government and was
sentenced to prison.
Suffered from Syphilis
Died of overdose of Morphine & heart
Attack before serving in prison
Vincent van Gogh Painting Sun Flowers
54. FAUVISM
• Began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910
• Fauves mean ―Wild Beasts‖ in French.
• Experimenting a new way of using pure, vivid colours
• Go against the traditional Art technique like Impressionism.
• Blocks and dashes of colours not seen in nature, juxtaposed
with
other unnatural colours in a frenzy of emotion
• Started with Henri Matisse and André Derain
57. FAUVISM
Henri Matisse
• Full name: Henri-Émile-Benoît
Matisse
• D.O.B: 31 December 1869 – 3
November 1954, France
• Believed absolutely in colour as an
emotional force
• Married
• Later artworks were controversial
(public disagreed)
• Died of Cancer
58. FAUVISM
Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905
• First painting to be exhibited at
Salon d'Automne (Autumn Salon)
• Marked a stylistic change from
the regulated brushstrokes to a
more expressive individual style
• Non-naturalistic colours and
loose brushwork, which
contributed to a sketchy or
"unfinished" quality
61. FAUVISM
André Derain
• Full name: André Derain
• D.O.B: 10 June 1880 – 8 September
1954, France
• Suffered from eye illness
• Was knocked down by a vehicle
63. FAUVISM
The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906
• Juxtaposing extreme
colours such as red
and green, blue and
orange
64. EXPRESSIONISM
• Use of intense colour, short brushstrokes, distortion, exaggeration.
• Artistic style in the use of distortion and exaggeration for emotional
effect.
• Expressionism is to express the artist's own representation of his or her
world
66. Edvard Munch
Full name: Edvard Munch
D.O.B: 1863 – 1944, Norway
Edvard’s mother died of
tuberculosis in 1868
His favourite sis died of
tuberculosis in 1877.
Another sis suffered from mental
illness.
Brother died a few months after his
wedding.
His father died in 1889.
EXPRESSIONISM
67. Edvard Munch
The Scream, 1893
•Tragic family history.
•(Everyone in the family died)
•The first Western artist to have
his pictures exhibited at the
National Gallery in Beijing.
•The Scream painting was stolen
in 1994 but was restored after a
few years.
EXPRESSIONISM
68. Edvard Munch
Death in the Sickroom. 1895
Collection of 1,100 paintings,
4,500 drawings and 18000
prints, as well as
woodcuts, etchings, lithograp
hs, lithographic
stones, woodcut
blocks, copperplates and
photographs
EXPRESSIONISM
70. Francis Bacon Full name: Francis Bacon
D.O.B: 28 October 1909 – 28 April
1992, Ireland
Started to cross dress at 15
Worked to support himself
(cooking, selling women’s clothes)
Was sexually attracted to his father
Attracted to old and young men
Influenced by Pablo Picasso
Human suffering, solitude and
isolation, anxiety, horror and
tragedy, sex, violence and death
Died of heart failure
EXPRESSIONISM
75. Franz Marc
EXPRESSIONISM
Full name: Franz Marc
D.O.B: Feb 8,1880 – Mar 4,1916,
Germany
Bright primary colours
Influenced by Cubism
Blue was used to portray
masculinity and spirituality
Yellow represented feminine joy
Red represented the sound of
violence.
Died at 36
76. Red Deer I
Sold for $3.3m USD in 1998
EXPRESSIONISM
The Waterfall
Sold for $5.06m USD in 1999
78. CUBISM KEY DATES: 1908-1914
•The Cubism movement began in Paris around 1907.
•Led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
•Cubists broke from centuries of tradition in their painting.
•In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an
abstracted form.
81. CUBISM
Pablo Picasso
Full name: Pablo Diego José
Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios
Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad
Ruiz y Picasso
D.O.B: 1881 - 1973, Spain
One of the main founder of Cubism
His artworks were divided into
Blue Period (1901–1904)
Rose Period (1905–1907)
African-influenced Period (1908–1909)
Analytic Cubism (1909–1912)
Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919)
82. CUBISM
Pablo Picasso
Girl with a mandolin
1910
Paulo (4 February 1921 – 5
June 1975) (Born Paul
Joseph Picasso) — with
Olga Khokhlova
Maia (5 September 1935 – )
(Born Maria de la
Concepcion Picasso) — with
Marie-Thérèse Walter
Claude (15 May 1947 –)
(Born Claude Pierre Pablo
Picasso) — with Françoise
Gilot
Paloma (19 April 1949 – )
(Born Anne Paloma
Picasso) — with Françoise
Gilot
85. DADAISM
• Considered Anti-Art
• Rumoured to be formed because of World War I
• Rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition
Early 1910s
86. DADAISM & SURREALISM ARTISTS
• Marcel Duchamp
• Max Ernst
• de Chirico
• Frida Kahlo
• Salvador Dalí
• Rene Magritte
87. DADISM
Marchel Duchamp
Full name: Marcel Duchamp
D.O.B: 28 Jul 1887 – 2 Oct 1968,
France
Decided to do Anti-Art works after
WORLD WAR
Died in his sleep
90. SURREALISM
•The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected
juxtapositions and absurd.
•Surrealism is a style in which fantastic visual imagery from the
subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the artwork
logically comprehensible.
•Involves Psychology
Early 1920s
91.
92. SURREALISM
Salvador Dali
Full name: Salvador Domingo Felipe
Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
Took his brother’s name because he
died before Dali was born
D.O.B: May 11 1904 – January 23
1989, Spain
Eccentric personality
Famous feature – Starched
moustache
Obsessed with Hitler and dreamed
Hitler was a woman
Known for the striking and bizarre
images in his surrealist work.
93. SURREALISM
Salvador Dali
Painter, Photographer, Sculptor,
and does video too.
Suffered from Parkinson disease.
Right hand trembles rapidly due to
his senile wife who fed him overdose
of medicine
Attempted suicide after his wife died
Forced to sign blank canvas
Died of Heart failure
94. SURREALISM
Salvador Dali
Best known painting – on the left
After entertaining guests in the
evening, Dalí sat at the table looking
upon the soft, half melted
Camembert cheese.
Suddenly the idea of melting
watches came to him and he
immediately got to work.
The Persistence of Memory, 1931
98. SURREALISM
René François Magritte
Full name: René François Ghislain
Magritte
D.O.B: 21 Nov 1898 – 15 Aug 1967,
Belgium
Made fake painting of Picasso’s
works and sell them
The titles of his works are random,
crazy and weird. Sometimes his
friends title the paintings he created
Successful surrealist but was never
Fully accepted in Paris
Mother drowned herself and the
image of her face covered by the
wet nightdress haunted him
99. SURREALISM
René François Magritte
Well known for a number of witty
and amusing images.
Magritte's simplicity is misleading.
Chose ordinary things to construct
his works - trees, chairs, tables,
doors, windows, shoes, shelves,
landscapes, people…etc
Work frequently contains a
juxtaposition of objects or an
unusual context giving new
meanings to familiar things.
Died of cancer.
Time Transfixed, 1938
102. ABSTRACT ART
KEY DATES: 1910
Abstract art generally means art that does not depict
objects in the natural world, but instead uses colour
and form in a non-representational way.
105. ABSTRACT ART
Jackson Pollock
Full name: Paul Jackson
Pollock
D.O.B: 28 Jan, 1912 – 11 Aug
1956, America
Founder of Abstract
expressionist.
Died in a drinking car crash
accident
106. ABSTRACT ART
Jackson Pollock
•Started the "drip" technique
by dripping paint on the
canvas which was laid on the
floor.
•Used hardened brushes,
sticks and syringes to paint.
•He would poke a hole in the
bottom of a tin can of paint to
drip. Pollock's technique of
pouring and dripping paint is
thought to be one of the
origins of the term
―Action painting‖.
108. ABSTRACT ART
Mark Rothko
Full name: Marcus Yakovlevich
Rothkowitz
D.O.B: 25 Sep 1903 –25 Feb
1970, Russia
Moved to USA when he was
young.
Believed that his painting
Speaks for itself.
109. ABSTRACT ART
Mark Rothko
White over Red
1957
•Rothko was suffered from
depression.
•He had a prickly
temperament, drank
heavily and took hypnotic
pills.
•Had 2 failed marriages
•Committed suicide
112. ABSTRACT ART
Piet Mondrian
Full name: Pieter Cornelis "Piet"
Mondriaa
D.O.B: 7 Mar, 1872 – 1 Feb, 1944
Netherlands
Started as a Post-impressionist
Paintings were mainly
influenced by Abstract and
Neoplasticism.
Neoplasticism is the belief of
having horizontal and vertical
lines of Primary colours.
Died of pneumonia
113. ABSTRACT ART
Piet Mondrian
Composition of red, yellow
and blue
1930
•This painting was duplicated and
it can be found in Singapore.
•A 17-story condominium was
launched in Singapore in April
2007 with the
name "Parc Mondrian‖
115. POP ART
• Popular Art movement used common everyday objects
to portray elements of popular culture, primarily images
in advertising and television in the western countries.
• Originated in England in the 1950s and traveled
overseas to the United States during the 1960s.
• Reflecting the affluence in post-war society.
• Most prominent in American art. In celebrating everyday
objects such as soup cans, washing powder, comic
strips and soda pop bottles, the movement turned the
commonplace into icons.
1958 - 1975
116. POP ART
• Andy Warhol
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Richard Hamilton
• Jasper Johns
• Keith Harrings
117. POP ART
Andy Warhol
Full name: Andrew Warhola
D.O.B: 6 Aug, 1928 – 22 Feb 1987,
America
Discovered Blotted-line Technique.
Tape two pieces of blank paper together
and then draw in ink on one page.
Before the ink dried, he would press the
two pieces of paper together.
The result was a picture with irregular
lines that he would color in with
watercolor.
Famous for retrospective design.
118. POP ART
Andy Warhol
Campbell’s Soup, 1968
Made paintings of famous
American products like Campbell
Soup, Coca-Cola, Marilyn
Monroe…etc
Campbell Soup is his most famous
painting.
124. POP ART
Roy Lichtenstein
Full name: Roy Fox Lichtenstein
D.O.B: 27 Oct, 1923 –29 Sept, 1997,
America
Works showed about pop art
through Parody
Heavily influenced by both popular
advertising and the comic book
style.
128. Surrealism
Salvador Dali
René François Magritte
Renaissance
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
Cubism
Georges Braque
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cezanne
Paul Klee
Expressionism
Edvard Munch
Franz Marc
Francis Bacon
Marc Chagall
Impressionism
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Camille Pissarro
Pop Art
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Richard Hamilton
Jasper Johns
Keith Harrings
Abstract Art
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Piet Mondrian
Post- Impressionism
Vincent Van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
Paul Cézanne
George Seurat
Henri Rousseau
Paul Signac
Fauvism
Henri Matisse
Andre Derain