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Painters of the 20th Century |
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EVOLUTION
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Painters of the 20th CenturyThe twentieth century was the stage for some of the greatest visual artists in history. Except for Impressionism, it witnessed all the influential movements of modern art (modernism), plus the more fragmented styles of contemporary art (postmodernism). From the most vivid colourism (Fauvism, Expressionism) to revolutionary intellectual painting (Cubism, Constructivism) and political art, (Entartete Kunst, Socialist Realism), the period gave rise to a wealth of Schools, theories and aesthetics. Although the number of abstract painters increased substantially from the late 1900s onwards - in the form of avant-garde Cubists, Suprematists, the De Stijl movement, Abstract Expressionism and the Minimalists - figurative artists continued to develop new techniques and methods. Mural painting enjoyed a Renaissance in Mexico; urban and social scenery were central to the Ashcan School, the Social Realists, Precisionists and Graffiti artists; while the Surrealists, the Beaux Arts Quartet, the London School and the Photorealists all sought to express their own form of figuration. And of course there were the anti-art Dadaists to challenge all conventional aesthetics! |
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WORLD'S GREATEST
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List of 20th Century Painters Here is a quick reference guide to the most famous painters of the period. A few individuals are listed under more than one style. Expressionist Art (1900 onwards) |
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Ashcan School, New York (1900-1920) Fauvist Artists (Paris, c.1905-7) Die Brucke (Bridge) (1905-13)
Dresden Cubism (1908-12) (Analytical
Cubism, Synthetic Cubism) Futurist Painters (1909-1914) Paris School (1910-25) |
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Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider)
(1911-14) Munich Rayonism (Luchizm) (1912-14) Synchromism (1912-14, Paris) Orphism (Orphic Cubism/ Simultanism)
(1912-16) Vorticism (British Cubist Painters)
(c.1913-15) Suprematism (1913-1920s) Dada Movement (Europe, 1916-1924) Constructivism (c.1917-21) |
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Geometric Abstraction: De Stijl/Neo-Plasticism
(1917-40) Metaphysical Painting (Pittura
Metafisica) (c.1918) Purism (Early, mid-1920s) Precisionism (or Cubist Realism,
1920s) Mexican Mural Painters (c.1920-40) New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
(Germany, 1925-35) Surrealist Movement (1924 onwards) Social Realism (late 1920s onwards) |
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Socialist Realism (1929 onwards) 20th Century Realist Painters Neo-Romantics (Late 1930s) Abstract Expressionists (Mid-1940s,
1950s) Art Informel (formless improvisation)
(Europe mid-1940s, 1950s) Calligraphic Abstraction General Abstraction Kitchen Sink Art (Beaux Arts
Quartet) (mid-1950s) Neo-Dadaists (1950s, early 1960s) Op-Art/Kinetic Art (1950s, 1960s) Pop Art (1950s, 1960s) Minimalists (1960s, 1970s) Photorealists, Superrealists
(1960s, 1970s) London School (1970s) Graffiti Painters (1970s, 1980s) Neo-Expressionism (1979 onwards) Contemporary Chinese Painters Young British Artists (YBAs)
(1990s) |
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