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These images support classroom instruction in the arts elements and principles for teachers participating in the Art Integration Mentors (AIM) project.
| Art Period | Renaissance 1400-1600 |
Baroque 1600-1700 |
Rococo 1700-1770 |
Romanticism 1800-1850 |
Realism 1850-1880 |
Impressionism 1869-1886 |
Post Impressionism 1886-1900 |
Expressionism 1890-1939 |
Fauvism 1900-1907 |
Cubism 1907-1920 |
Surrealism 1920-1930 |
Modernism 1900-1935 |
Geometric Abstractionism 1917-1940 |
Commercial Art 1920-1960 |
Abstract Expressionism 1905-1957 |
Mexican Muralist 1920-1940 |
Pop Art 1955-1970 |
Post Modernism 1980-present |
| Major Artists | Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa Self Portrait The Lady of the Dishevelled Hair Albrecht Durer Raphael Jan Van Eyck |
Frans Hall Laughing Cavalier Jan Vermeer Rembrant Diego Velazquez
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Thomas Gainsborough The Blue Boy Jean-Honore Fragonard |
Jaques-Louis David The Death of Socrates Albert Bierstadt J.M.W. Turner |
Winslow Homer Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) Boys in a Pasture The Blue Boat Jean Francois Millet |
Claude Monet: La Prominade Water Lilies Renoir: Edouard Manet |
Paul Cezanne Woman Seated in Blue The Blue Vase Mountains in Provence Henri Rousseau Georges Seurat Vincent VanGogh |
Wassily Kandinsky Composition IV Composition VIII Franz Marc Edvard Munch |
Henri Matisse Blue Still Life Green Stripe The Desert Harmony in Red |
Pablo Picasso Self Portrait Portrait of Daniel George Braque |
Salvador Dahli The Persistence of Memory Joan Miro Marc Chagall |
Georgia O'Keeffee Cow Skull with Calico Roses Blue and Green Music Edward Hopper Nighthawks Grant Wood |
Piet Mondrian Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue Broadway Boogie Woogie |
Norman Rockwell The Freedom From Want Triple Self-Portrait The Runaway |
Jackson Pollock Lavender Mist 1 Hans Hoffman Willem deKooning |
Diego Rivera El Vendedor de Alcatraces The Flower Carrier |
Jasper Johns Flag Andy Warhol Wayne Thiebaud |
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| Dominant art elements |
The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. | Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour. | Fauvism used pure, brilliant colour, applied straight from the paint tubes in an aggressive, direct manner to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas. |
