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Francisco Goya was a Rococo artist of Spain. He is referred to one of the last of the Old Masters, and one of the fist moderns.

Boys Playing at See-Saw

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Rococo was the final stage of Baroque art, and would pull more at the emotions with lights and darks, and elongated figures.

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Rembrandt was one of the major Baroque artists of the time period, and is considered one of the best Dutch artists of all time.

Abduction of Europa-

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Baroque was a very extravagant and ornate style that was briefly popular among the wealthy to show off their wealth.

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The Quaint Paint Art Museum would like to thank:
Kaija Villagrand: Logistics Manager

Romanticism, Realism, introduction/map

Michelle Yavorskiy:   Design Manager

Early and Classical Civs, Middle Ages, layout/design
Ben Pasion: Tech Manager

Renaissance, Enlightenment, introduction/map
Jenna Teterin: Research Manager
Interpretive Art, Modern Art, layout/design

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Neoclassicism was the art movement in the that drew inspiration from the "classical" art. It was based more on Ancient Greek and Roman influences, and went back to classical, dramatic depictions of scenes.

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Jacques-Louis David was an Enlightenment artist who was a friend of Maximilian Robespierre, and painted with more less feeling than Renaissance artists.

The Sabine Women-

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Jackson Pollock was an artist known for his paintings with drips and splashes of paint, appearing to be random.

Jackson Pollock Untitled 5-

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The people of Egypt used the same methods as the Sumerians, of hammering pictures and words into different materials, as well as use paint to draw on papyrus.

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Abstract art was a form of art that relied on no structure or historical technique needed to paint realistic artwork- it was completely emotional and required no connection to reality.

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The Sumerians lived in modern-day Iraq and discovered that of hammering words and pictures into blocks of marble, gold, stone, and wood.

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Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Spain. Dalí was best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painting skills are often compared to Renaissance artists, but his paintings were very different.

The Persistence of Memory-

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Surrealism was where artists painted strange, illogical pictures with extreme precision, and made strange creatures from everyday objects. Its aim was to paint dreams and an alternate reality in the real world.

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Wassily Kandinsky was an artist born in Moscow, Russia, who helped develop the Bauhaus style in Germany.

Composition VIII-

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Bauhaus was the German development of Modern art, and was taught in three schools in Germany, before it was shut down because of Hitler.

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Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist who focused on modern, and more specifically Futuristic art. He was known as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century", and was known for his ethnicity and modern art.

Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower-

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Futurism was an artistic movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It showcased speed, technology, youth, and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Although it was largely an Italian movement, there were parallel movements in England, Russia, and Belgium.

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Modern art is art where traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with new ideas about the nature of what they do and purposes of art. They were less focused on the narrative, which was usual for the traditional arts, and were more focused on abstraction. More recent art is often called contemporary art or postmodern art.

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Raphael is an Italian Renaissance painter best known for his interpretations of the religious Madonna figures. After leaving his apprenticeship in Florence, Raphael was heavily influenced by other Renaissance painters and wanted to achieve a similar level of composition in his works.

Madonna del Prato:

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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramist, who spent most of his adult life in France. Considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement. His paintings often were about war and its detriments.

Guernica-

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Cubism is a 20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture into Modern art. Cubism has been considered to be among the most influential art movements of the 20th century. It uses geometric figures to abstractly portray the subject.

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of color and his original paintings. He was a printmaker and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly viewed as one of the artists who best helped develop more modern painting and sculpture. Along with Picasso, Matisse helped to define and influence radical contemporary art in the 20th century.

La Gerbe-

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Fauvism was a movement led by a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized artistic and strong color over the representative or realistic values shown in Impressionism. Fauvism lasted for a couple of decades, but really only had three exhibitions.

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Michelangelo is another major artist of the Renaissance. He is best known for his realistic statues such as "David", and his immense painting in the Sistine Chapel. In order to create this painting, Pope Julius II had asked Michelangelo to switch from sculpting to painting, and Michelangelo knowing what a great opportunity this was, agreed.

Sistine Chapel Ceiling: The Creation of Adam:

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Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French Expressionist painter. He is known for his new use of painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. He was delicate, but had a passion for logical and arithmetic subjects.

Riverman-

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Expressionism was a modern movement, whose typical trait is distorting images for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Although this style ranged across mediums such as architecture and theater, it was mainly popular in paintings and art.

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Leonardo Da Vinci was a famous Italian artist alive in the time of the Renaissance. He was a key leader of this movement, as his paintings provided perspective, depth, a shading between lights and darks, and the use of oil, instead of tempera.

Mona Lisa:

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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Not famous until after he died, Gauguin is now recognized for his use of color and Synthesist style, which was very different from Impressionism. He spent the last decade of his life in the French Polynesia, painting people and landscapes from there.

Arearea-

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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential artists in the history of Western art. Gogh's paintings include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and can be identified by bold colors and heavy brushwork that contributed to the roots of modern art.

Church of Auvers-

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Paul Cézanne was a Post-Impressionist painter who laid the groundwork for art to become radically different. Cézanne's repetitive brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used different values of color and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex paintings. The paintings show Cézanne's intense understanding of the emotions of his subjects.

The Card Players-

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Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colors, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, distort form for expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary color.

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Cimabue was an Italian artist best known for his mosaic masterpieces and depictions of Madonna and child. Cimabue was also contemporary of Dante and a teacher of Giotto.

Santa Trinita:

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Claude Monet was an Impressionist artist who focused more on nature. His art depicted how light falls on nature, and although not extremely detailed, the viewer is still aware of the subjects of his paintings.

The Beach at Trouville-

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Edgar Degas was also a very famous Impressionist artist. He created paintings, drawing, sculptures, and prints, which often depicted movement. He is especially famous for his paintings of dancers.

The Dance Class-

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Pierre Auguste Renoir was one of the most famous and regarded artists of the 20th century. After years of struggling as an artist, he helped launch Impressionism. Renoir, like other Impressionists, embraced a brighter palette for his paintings, which gave them a warmer and sunnier feel. He also used different types of brushstrokes to capture his artistic vision on the canvas.

Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette

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Giotto is an Italian artist who projects the Middle Ages style of tempera and religious themes in his masterpieces. Giotto worked for many middle class families and was commissioned by Pope Benedict XI to paint a mosaic in St. Peters.

The Last Supper:

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Art in the middle ages was "flat, cracked, and Jesus." It was flat, with no perspective, cracked, as Tempra paint was used, and depicted only Biblical scenes.

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Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by small and detailed brush strokes that tried to depict light and shadow. The subject of the art would usually attempt to show movement and how light falls onto the subject of the art.

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Interpretative art arose out of the creation of photography. Art and paintings no longer needed to reflect reality, as a photograph could now capture portraits and landscapes. Artists began to create art that could portray feelings and emotions, rather than actual perfectly depicted scenes from life.

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The early civilizations of the world began with nothing. Slowly but gradually developments occurred. Humans began to build tools, discover fire, and find ways to express themselves and tell stories without being literate.

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Jean-François Millet's realism had a small aspect of romantic sentimentality. He was preoccupied with scenes from rural life and painted the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. Millet was often criticized for his use of crude subject matter.
The Gleaners:

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Gustave Courbet was the most famous artist of the Realist school. He realistically portrayed everyday life and painted workers, wives of workers, and peasants. No subject was too harsh, too ordinary, or too ugly for him to paint.
The Stonebreakers:

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Realist artists were interested in the natural environment. They portrayed everyday life in their works by showing scenes with peasants, workers, and prostitutes.

Fun fact: The French led the realism movement in painting!

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Realist artists used careful observations and accuracy.
Realism art approached after 1850. It outwardly rejected Romanticism. To realists, dealing with ordinary characters in life was more significant than dealing with imaginary characters in weird places.
Realism was popular in literature, as portrayed through the works of Gustave Flaubert and William Thackeray. However, we will be focusing on the artistic aspects of realism in our museum.

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Romantics believed that music was the most important of the arts.
One example of a Romantic musician was Lugwig van Beethoven. His music reflected his most inner feelings. Beethoven was even able to compose when he was deaf.

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Eugéne Delacroix was a famous French artist. He had a passion for color, and enjoyed combining movement and theatricality.
The Death of Sardanapalus:

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Turner was an English artist who produced over 20,000 paintings, watercolors, and drawings in his career. His work was extremely prolific. Due to his concern with nature, he focused on painting seascapes, landscapes, sunsets, and sunrises. He believed nature shouldn't be portrayed accurately. Instead, its moods should be conveyed.
Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps:

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Friedrich was a German Romantic painter who enjoyed painting landscapes. He believed that one's inner vision determined their artistic process.
Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon:

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Romantic artists all reflected their inner feelings and their visions of the world in their paintings. They deliberately rejected Classicism and emphasized movement, warmth, and emotion.

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Romantic writers often wrote about the romantic hero. The romantic hero was a character in their stories who would sacrifice his life to save others.

One example of a Romantic writer is Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle was a British writer who stressed the idea that historical events were caused by heroic deeds.

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Enlightenment Art focused on more liberal points of view, including toleration, liberalism, and rationalism. However, it was still close to the Renaissance Art with its logical points of view and subjects of art. It was also known as Neoclassicism.

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Renaissance art started to use oil paint, so the colors were darker and more vibrant. They moved away from biblical scenes to more daily depictions, and started using perspective to create depth.

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Romantics, regardless of whether or not they were writers, artists, or musicians, emphasized emotion, inner feelings, sentiment, drama, and passion in their works.
Romanticism emerged towards the end of the 18th century, and immediately began to challenge the idea of reasoning from the Enlightenment with the ideas of imagination and intuition.
The ideals of Romanticism changed the artistic course of the 18th century. It caused intellectuals to disregard reason in favor of emotion. This caused artwork, music pieces, and literature to change dramatically.
Romantics tended to rebel against middle class conventions. They wore outrageous clothes and kept their beards long.
In this next exhibit, you will see examples of Romantic art, music, and writing.

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Welcome to the Quaint Paint Art Museum  

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Welcome to the Quaint Paint Art Museum  

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You will be lost to our vast collection of paintings throughout the history of Europe. Here, you will see the many different art styles throughout the many European artists.

Here is your  art journey:
Introduction: You are here
Exhibit 1: Early and Classical Civs
Exhibit 2: Middle Ages

Exhibit 3: Renaissance
Exhibit 4: Enlightenment
Exhibit 5: Romanticism
Exhibit 6: Realism
Exhibit 7: Interpretive Art
Exhibit 8: Modern Art