ART MOVEMENTS & STYLES
This late 18th-century movement emphasized reason, order, and Greco-Roman ideals.
What is Neoclassicism?
This French artist painted The Oath of the Horatii, a Neoclassical symbol of civic virtue.
Who is Jacques-Louis David?
Neoclassical art was closely tied to this political event that emphasized democracy and republican ideals.
What is the French Revolution?
Most paintings in this unit were created using this medium made of pigment and oil.
What is oil paint?
Neoclassical artists often emphasized this moral value tied to patriotism and duty.
What is civic virtue?
This movement reacted against the Industrial Revolution and focused on emotion, imagination, and nature.
What is Romanticism?
This Spanish artist created The Third of May, 1808, depicting the horrors of war.
Who is Francisco Goya?
Goya’s The Third of May, 1808 responds to this event involving Napoleon’s army in Spain.
What is the Peninsular War / French invasion of Spain?
Impressionists often painted outdoors using this method to capture changing light.
What is plein-air painting?
Romantic artists were especially interested in this powerful emotional response to nature.
What is the sublime?
This 19th-century movement aimed to portray everyday life and working-class subjects without idealization.
What is Realism?
This artist painted Olympia, challenging traditional ideas of beauty and morality.
Who is Édouard Manet?
Industrialization helped inspire Realist artists to focus on this group of people.
Who are the working class?
Van Gogh used thick layers of paint applied with a brush or palette knife, known as this technique.
What is impasto?
Realist artists rejected this traditional artistic approach.
What is idealization?
Characterized by visible brushstrokes and an interest in light and modern life, this movement took its name from a Monet painting.
What is Impressionism?
This Dutch artist is known for expressive brushwork and works like The Starry Night.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
This global conflict influenced the rise of Dada and Surrealism in the early 20th century.
What is World War I?
Cubist artists frequently incorporated this technique involving pasted paper and mixed materials.
What is collage?
Modern artists increasingly questioned this traditional subject of art.
What is realism / traditional representation / classical beauty?
This early 20th-century movement fractured objects into geometric forms and showed multiple viewpoints at once.
What is Cubism?
This Mexican artist merged Surrealism with personal identity in works like Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Abstract Expressionism emerged in the U.S. during this tense political era after World War II.
What is the Cold War?
Jackson Pollock’s method of pouring and splattering paint became known as this approach.
What is action painting / drip painting?
Much 20th-century art explores personal identity related to gender, race, or nationality—known broadly as this theme.
What is identity?