6. Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Renaissance
Renaissance art:
● emphasized the
human figure.
● Natural looking
forms
● balance and
harmony
● linear perspective
13. Jacques-Louis David, The oath of the Horatii, Neoclassical.
Neoclassical artists looked back on Roman times to create art
that related to those just and democratic times.
24. Wassily Kandinsky: Composition 6, Abstract (modern).. Kandinsky is known as the
first abstract artist. Abstract art came before abstract expressionism.
25. Matisse, Fauvist Still
Life, Modern
Matisse began a style
called Fauvism, which
used heightened,
unnatural colors to
convey raw emotion.
33. Diego Rivera: Man at the Crossroads
Man at the Crossroads was a fresco by Diego Rivera in
New York City's Rockefeller Center. The painting was
controversial because it included an image of Lenin
and a Soviet Russian May Day parade.
34. Willem de Kooning;
Woman with Bicycle.
1952
De Kooning was an
abstract expressionist.
This American
abstract movement
use aggressive brush
strokes to convey
emotion and energy.