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Leonardo da Vinci

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Notable works include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. His detailed studies of anatomy helped elevate the realism employed by Renaissance artists.

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Expressionism

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Edvard Munch's The Scream and Van Gogh's The Starry Night initiated a movement seeking to express emotional experience over physical reality.

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Salvador Dali

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Known for The Persistence of Memory and surreal melting clocks, he explored subconscious imagery and Freudian theory through artwork.

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Cubism

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Exemplified by Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Braque's Houses at L’Estaque. It deconstructed objects into geometric shapes.

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Dada

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Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and Hannah Höch's photo-montages reveal a movement that rejected traditional art standards and embraced absurdity.

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Vincent van Gogh

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Starry Night and Sunflowers are among his masterpieces. Post-Impressionist techniques influenced modern art with bold colors and emotional sincerity.

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Michelangelo

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling and David. A key figure in the High Renaissance, his sculptures, and paintings emphasized human beauty and form.

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Pablo Picasso

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Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are significant works. His development of Cubism and influence on modern art are unparalleled.

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Impressionism

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Notable works include Monet's Water Lilies series and Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Focused on light and color over realism.

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Caravaggio

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Works like The Calling of St Matthew represent the Baroque style with naturalism and tenebrism, which greatly influenced European painting.

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Surrealism

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Dali's The Persistence of Memory and Magritte's The Treachery of Images define this movement interested in dreams and the unconscious mind.

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Jackson Pollock

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Notable for works like Number 1, 1949, he revolutionized the abstract expressionist movement with his drip painting technique.

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Claude Monet

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Works like Water Lilies and Impression, Sunrise are crucial to Impressionism, a movement characterized by visible brush strokes and open composition.

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Rembrandt

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The Night Watch and self-portraits are famous examples of his mastery in light and shadow, contributing to the Baroque period's dramatic intensity.

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Baroque

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Caravaggio's The Calling of St Matthew and Bernini's David exemplify this dramatic, detailed, and grandiose style of 17th-century Europe.

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Albrecht Dürer

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Admired for Melencolia I and his woodcut series, he was a crucial figure in the Northern Renaissance for his high-quality woodcuts and engravings.

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Neoclassicism

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David's Oath of the Horatii and Canova's sculptures marked a return to classical simplicity and grandeur amidst the anti-Rococo sentiment.

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Renaissance

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Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's David, and Raphael's School of Athens show the rebirth of classical arts and humanism.

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Abstract Expressionism

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Pollock's Autumn Rhythm and Rothko's color field paintings focused on spontaneity, abstract forms, and the individual subconscious.

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De Stijl

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Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie and Rietveld's Red Blue Chair are major achievements of a movement that embraced an abstract, minimalist aesthetic.

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Rococo

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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.

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Minimalism

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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.

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Hieronymus Bosch

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The Garden of Earthly Delights famously embodies the fantastical and detailed imagery peculiar to this Netherlandish artist's vision of morality.

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Constructivism

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Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Rodchenko's spatial constructions reflected an artistic philosophy devoted to materialism and utility.

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Jan van Eyck

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The Arnolfini Portrait and Ghent Altarpiece are crucial in their advanced oil painting techniques and high attention to details, typical of Flemish painting.

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Arte Povera

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An Italian movement symbolized by Penone's Tree of 12 Meters, which used everyday materials to challenge the commercialization of art.

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Post-Impressionism

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Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire and Van Gogh's Starry Night represent artists who moved beyond Impressionism's limitations to emphasize structure and symbolism.

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Artemisia Gentileschi

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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.

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Gothic Art

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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.

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Bauhaus

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Walter Gropius's school design philosophy and Kandinsky's abstract works fostered functionalism and clean geometric aesthetics in art and architecture.

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Fauvism

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Matisse's The Dance and Derain's London Bridge highlighted bold colors and painterly qualities that sought to liberate color from its descriptive role.

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Realism

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Courbet's The Stone Breakers and Millet's The Gleaners emphasized everyday subjects, a stark contrast to the romantically idealized art that preceded it.

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Op Art

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Bridget Riley’s Fall and Vasarely’s Zebra utilized optical illusions to create visually stimulating art that seemed to move and vibrate.

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Art Nouveau

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Alphonse Mucha's posters and Gaudi's architecture characterized a style focusing on natural forms, flowing lines, and organic shapes.

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Futurism

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Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space and Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash celebrated technology and kinetic energy.

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Pre-Raphaelites

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Millais's Ophelia and Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott drew on early Renaissance works to express a fascination with medieval myth and nature.

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Symbolism

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Moreau's The Apparition and Klimt's The Kiss portray a movement favoring spirituality, the imagination, and dreams over realism.

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Romanticism

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Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Turner's sublime landscapes centered on emotion, individualism, and the awe of nature.

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Pop Art

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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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