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Leonardo da Vinci
Notable works include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. His detailed studies of anatomy helped elevate the realism employed by Renaissance artists.
Expressionism
Edvard Munch's The Scream and Van Gogh's The Starry Night initiated a movement seeking to express emotional experience over physical reality.
Salvador Dali
Known for The Persistence of Memory and surreal melting clocks, he explored subconscious imagery and Freudian theory through artwork.
Cubism
Exemplified by Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Braque's Houses at L’Estaque. It deconstructed objects into geometric shapes.
Dada
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and Hannah Höch's photo-montages reveal a movement that rejected traditional art standards and embraced absurdity.
Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night and Sunflowers are among his masterpieces. Post-Impressionist techniques influenced modern art with bold colors and emotional sincerity.
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel Ceiling and David. A key figure in the High Renaissance, his sculptures, and paintings emphasized human beauty and form.
Pablo Picasso
Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are significant works. His development of Cubism and influence on modern art are unparalleled.
Impressionism
Notable works include Monet's Water Lilies series and Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Focused on light and color over realism.
Caravaggio
Works like The Calling of St Matthew represent the Baroque style with naturalism and tenebrism, which greatly influenced European painting.
Surrealism
Dali's The Persistence of Memory and Magritte's The Treachery of Images define this movement interested in dreams and the unconscious mind.
Jackson Pollock
Notable for works like Number 1, 1949, he revolutionized the abstract expressionist movement with his drip painting technique.
Claude Monet
Works like Water Lilies and Impression, Sunrise are crucial to Impressionism, a movement characterized by visible brush strokes and open composition.
Rembrandt
The Night Watch and self-portraits are famous examples of his mastery in light and shadow, contributing to the Baroque period's dramatic intensity.
Baroque
Caravaggio's The Calling of St Matthew and Bernini's David exemplify this dramatic, detailed, and grandiose style of 17th-century Europe.
Albrecht Dürer
Admired for Melencolia I and his woodcut series, he was a crucial figure in the Northern Renaissance for his high-quality woodcuts and engravings.
Neoclassicism
David's Oath of the Horatii and Canova's sculptures marked a return to classical simplicity and grandeur amidst the anti-Rococo sentiment.
Renaissance
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's David, and Raphael's School of Athens show the rebirth of classical arts and humanism.
Abstract Expressionism
Pollock's Autumn Rhythm and Rothko's color field paintings focused on spontaneity, abstract forms, and the individual subconscious.
De Stijl
Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie and Rietveld's Red Blue Chair are major achievements of a movement that embraced an abstract, minimalist aesthetic.
Rococo
Fragonard's The Swing and Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera define elegantly decorative art that's associated with the aristocratic pleasures of 18th-century France.
Minimalism
Judd's Untitled works and LeWitt's wall drawings distilled art to its essential form, creating a new simplicity in art in the 1960s and 70s.
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights famously embodies the fantastical and detailed imagery peculiar to this Netherlandish artist's vision of morality.
Constructivism
Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Rodchenko's spatial constructions reflected an artistic philosophy devoted to materialism and utility.
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait and Ghent Altarpiece are crucial in their advanced oil painting techniques and high attention to details, typical of Flemish painting.
Arte Povera
An Italian movement symbolized by Penone's Tree of 12 Meters, which used everyday materials to challenge the commercialization of art.
Post-Impressionism
Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire and Van Gogh's Starry Night represent artists who moved beyond Impressionism's limitations to emphasize structure and symbolism.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes exemplifies her Caravaggio-inspired dramatic style. As a female painter in the Baroque era, she offered unique perspectives on biblical and mythological subjects.
Gothic Art
The soaring architecture of Notre-Dame Cathedral and Giotto's frescoes illustrate a style characterized by verticality and the evolution of the iconic pointed arch.
Bauhaus
Walter Gropius's school design philosophy and Kandinsky's abstract works fostered functionalism and clean geometric aesthetics in art and architecture.
Fauvism
Matisse's The Dance and Derain's London Bridge highlighted bold colors and painterly qualities that sought to liberate color from its descriptive role.
Realism
Courbet's The Stone Breakers and Millet's The Gleaners emphasized everyday subjects, a stark contrast to the romantically idealized art that preceded it.
Op Art
Bridget Riley’s Fall and Vasarely’s Zebra utilized optical illusions to create visually stimulating art that seemed to move and vibrate.
Art Nouveau
Alphonse Mucha's posters and Gaudi's architecture characterized a style focusing on natural forms, flowing lines, and organic shapes.
Futurism
Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space and Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash celebrated technology and kinetic energy.
Pre-Raphaelites
Millais's Ophelia and Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott drew on early Renaissance works to express a fascination with medieval myth and nature.
Symbolism
Moreau's The Apparition and Klimt's The Kiss portray a movement favoring spirituality, the imagination, and dreams over realism.
Romanticism
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Turner's sublime landscapes centered on emotion, individualism, and the awe of nature.
Pop Art
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! popularized a movement that blurred high and low culture using commercial imagery.
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