Claude Monet, Gare Saint-Lazare 1877, Impressionism

the illusion of "temporary." Critics thought he was trying to pass a sketch off as a work, gives an "impression" of what's happening. Open composition and the accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities. Ordinary subject matter and unusual visual angles. Bright and varied use of color.

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris: A Rainy Day, 1877, Impressionism

Mourning suits, everyone is glum and expressionless, relationships are impersonal. Interest in photography is evident in the painting by the unusual angle. Background becomes progressively indistinct. Artist wanted it to appear as a snapshot, like the characters had just walked into the painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renior, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876, Impressionism

depicts a typical Sunday afternoon in Paris in which the working class would dress up and spend time dancing, drinking, and eating. Snapshot of real life, depicts flickering light and fluidity of brushstroke

Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1882, Impressionism

Includes how she really feels vs how she presents herself to the customers, exemplifies Manet's commitment to realism, Manet habitually associated oranges with prostitution/prostitutes,

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on la Grande Jaffe, 1884 Pointillism

Meticulously focused on the landscape of the park. Constructed miniature dots of color that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye. Wanted to find more permanent style, Paradoxes of high art and low art. Roman head vases used for modeling.

Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, Post-Impressionism

Cypress trees sometimes symbolize dead, mistral winds clear the atmosphere and the night sky is very clear, premonition of suicide. Compares the episodes to the mistral winds, they churn up turmoil and anguish. the cypress tree is protection from the winds, is about hope, health, and happiness.

Paul Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon, 1888, Post-Impressionism

Women are in vvarious states of consciousness, moving toward abstraction, It depicts a scene from The Bible, where Jacob wrestles an angel. It depicts this indirectly, through a vision or hallucinations that the women depicted see after a sermon in church. They are done in colors as from nature.  The skin of the women is pale, their hats are white and shaded, and their dresses are black.  Besides for the thick outlines and the breaking of the general rule that Impressionists should never use black, the women are done in a near-Impressionist style. General shapes

Henri Matisse, Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908, Fauvism

Wallpaper becomes part of table, elimination of perspective, "Art" is merely decorative. Emotion and reaction is based on color and design alone. Fauvism means "wild beast" color was used wildly. Flattening of form, subject matter.

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoisells d'Avignon, 1907, Cubism

Figures patterned from Greek sculpture Venus, traditional figure which he presents in a menacing way. Interested in structures, discecting and simplifying, figures sometimes resemble African Art, promitive drawing, which he was interested in and heavily influenced by.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, Dada

Challenges notion of "art." Claims that the artist's intention decides what is art, finds new purpose for ordinary objects, Fountain is perhaps the best known because the symbolic meaning of the toilet takes the conceptual challenge posed by the readymades to their most visceral extreme

De Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914, Surrealism

Aniety, accessing personal beliefs and characteristics, it is about challenging our notion of reality, art is therapeutic for both the artist and the viewer.

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, Surrealism

Shores of his hometown in Spain, Great deal of sexual problems including impotence whereas he explores his own subconcious and conscious fears and anxieties to seek truth and work through his problems and emotions.

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, (lavender mist) 1950, Abstract Expressionism

Art doesn't have to represent anything in order to connect with a viewer, paints on floor, paint splatter, responding to irrational impulse and emotion, essence, paint on canvas.

Richard Hamilton, Just What is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956 Pop Art

Collage made from American magazines, everything popular at the time all put together in one image, Mr. L.A. and burlesque woman pasted into image (popular characters of the time) representative of first pop art, depicting commodity, transience, convenience

Duane Hanson, Supermarket Shopper, 1970, Pop Art

Think about the ordinary people and their lives and to bring attention to these people.  Uses marginal subjects that often are looked past or down upon.  Realistic sculptures made from resin. 

Judy Chicago, the Dinner Party, 1979, Feminist Art

Triangle, traditional symbol of female, the number 13 symbolizes both a coven and also a reference to the last supper which was men only, Each place setting reflects that individual, paying homage and awareness to the women of history.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, PopArt

Used screenprinting to create many images of the same person or object. The images produced by a machine controlled with the hand of the artist still had a personal touch but was mass production and were commodities, just as Marilyn was as a celebrity. Also, to pay homage to Marilyn after her death.

Antoni Gaudi, Casa Mila, 1912, Impressionism

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and  wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls– the façade is self-supporting. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants.