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Monet
"The eye"; nature; water scenes, haystacks, the play of light and color
Renoir
focused on beautiful, happy scenes involving people, esp. women
Degas
psychological approach, often ballet dancers
Cassat
intimate scenes with mother and child
Rodin
impressionism to sculpture; surfaces and textures
Manet
More realistic, less "soft edge"; contrast between light and dark
Suraut
strict rules of color; pointillism
Gaugin
simplification, Tahitian scenes
Cezzane
imposed shapes on nature, a forerunner of the cubist movemtn
Van Gogh
personal, tortured
Munch
expressionist (alienation, lonely)
Picasso
"realistically" represent 3d objects on a 2D surface by breaking them up and representing them geometrically; analytical cubism: first movemtn, very preoccupied with shape (CUBISM)
Dali/ Magritte

Duchamp- DADA "playful"
Surrealism; influenced by Freud, psychologically driving forces: death, terror, sexuality, etc;
landscapes often vast and desert-like, scenes very dream-like
Rothko
fields of color, gradual changes in shade
Hopper
isolation in real life situations, used same models (his wife for one)
Calder
mobiles
Oldenburg
soft sculptures
Smith
metal works
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
huge stuff
Wright
buildings part of environment
Gehry
"destablilizing" works focusing on line; not functional often