Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) is an American realist painter. Nighthawks is a painting Hopper did that captured the lives of on the normal night.

    Nan Goldin, (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a series of work of her and her boyfriend, the works captured the moment of their lives on a personal level. Comprising almost 700 snapshot-like portraits sequenced against an evocative music soundtrack, Nan Goldin The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T096531?q=Nan+Goldin&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

Stonard, John-Paul. "Goldin, Nan." Oxford Art Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 July 2012. 

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111628

The Art Institute of Chicago Nighthawks, 1942. April 03, 2017

Sunrise by french artist Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) is an impressionistic painting created in 1873. Monet was famous for using unrealistic colors and stylistic brush strokes to forge his work.

    Van Gogh (3/30/1853 – 7/29/1890) His reputation thrived, long after his death in obscurity,  in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. He expressed the textures of the objects and the movement of light but using short broken brush strokes.

    Georges Seurat (9/2/1859 – 3/29/1891) was inspired by a desire to abandon Impressionism preoccupation with the fleeting moment. He was fascinated by a range of scientific ideas about color, form and expression. He is  the pioneer of the Neo-Impressionist technique commonly known as Divisionism, or Pointillism, an approach associated with a softly flickering surface of small dots or strokes of color. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte (1884-86)

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e1778?q=monet&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit
Stevenson, Lesley. "Monet, Claude." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web. 

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T033020?q=van+gogh&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

Uitert, Evert Van. "Gogh, Vincent Van." Oxford Art Online. N.p., n.d. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T077838?q=Georges+Seurat+&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Smith, Paul. "Seurat, Georges(pierre)." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 9 July 2012. Web.  

    American street artist and social activist, Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990), is one of the few contemporary artists that have pervaded the subconscious of the general public on a grand scale. his work responded to the New York City treet culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. Iconic work Ignorance = Fear was completed in 1989 and features the distinctive style of Haring sending out a strong message about the AIDS epidemic, which had claimed the lives of several of his friends. 

    Jean-Michel Basquiat  (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He focused on street art and graffiti, and his works focused primarily on hip hop and post war culture.

    Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s,

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T036672?q=Keith+Haring&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
"Haring, Keith." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 9 July 2012. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T006752?q=Jean-Michel+Basquiat&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Barton, Lin. "Mondrian, Piet." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 28 May 2015. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T090699?q=andy+warhol&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Livingstone, Marco. "Warhol, Andy [Warhola, Andrew]." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 16 Oct. 2013. Web.

Weeping Woman by Spanish artist Picasso (born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain, and died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) is a oil painting made in France in 1937. He used color as a representation of mood to show the emotion of this painting, the combination of yellow, blue and green represents sorrow and depression. Picasso used multiple side of the woman's face on one side to express his idea of space, and to create a painting that captured three dimensions on a two dimensional plane (the canvas).

 Red Balloon, 1922, Oil on muslin primed with chalk, 31.8 x 31.1 cm, by Paul Klee (born in Switzerland in 1879). Klee began his artistic career in Munich. The piece simplified the form of buildings and the main subject of the painting into a one dimensional form.

Mondrian (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944) is a Dutch abstract painter, who focused on the elements of color and lines, mainly on primary colors as a study of space. Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930 expressed the idea of space by dividing squares with lines.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e2042?q=picasso&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit
J., Richardson. "Picasso, Pablo." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 2006. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e1371?q=paul+klee&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit
Rodgers, David. "Klee, Pauk." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T059051?q=mondrian&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Barton, Lin. "Mondrian, Piet." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 28 May 2015. Web. 

The Fountain- a piece of re purposed urinal turned into art by the french artist Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968). In 1917, the art itself wasn't itself the art, but the reactions from people and critics were the art he was trying to create. He asked about what makes art, “art”- is it just because someone says it’s art?

The Kiss by the french artist Rodin was made in1882. This piece of bronze art work was forged by one the most well known modern style sculptor. The design of this was originally a part of a museum gate. Rodin's style was quite new during that time, as he broke the triangle rule that work should have a specific high and low point- in this piece, the people are equal.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T023894?q=Marcel+Duchamp&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T072591?q=rodin&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Lampert, Catherine. "Rodin, (François-)Auguste(-René)." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web.

 

If you have used one website, whether it is MoMA or the Met or Grove Art for something, then don’t use it again. You can point out, for instance, that different pages and/or articles on that site are useful, but each site is a single source.

 

I recommend half an hour in Decker. Librarians are there to help you. Look for a general book on Modernism, for instance. If there are movements you think of as particularly modern, you could find books on those. If you are a person who likes reading criticism, there are many anthologies of criticism on modern art.

 

The Fountain- a piece of re purposed urinal turned into art by the french artist Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968). In 1917, the art itself wasn't itself the art, but the reactions from people and critics were the art he was trying to create. He asked about what makes art, “art”- is it just because someone says it’s art?

The Kiss by the french artist Rodin was made in1882. This piece of bronze art work was forged by one the most well known modern style sculptor. The design of this was originally a part of a museum gate. Rodin's style was quite new during that time, as he broke the triangle rule that work should have a specific high and low point- in this piece, the people are equal.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T023894?q=Marcel+Duchamp&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T072591?q=rodin&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Lampert, Catherine. "Rodin, (François-)Auguste(-René)." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web.

2. Simplification of forms and shapes, going against the Academy in content and technique and later experiments with abstraction.

Weeping Woman by Spanish artist Picasso (born October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain, and died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) is a oil painting made in France in 1937. He used color as a representation of mood to show the emotion of this painting, the combination of yellow, blue and green represents sorrow and depression. Picasso used multiple side of the woman's face on one side to express his idea of space, and to create a painting that captured three dimensions on a two dimensional plane (the canvas).

 Red Balloon, 1922, Oil on muslin primed with chalk, 31.8 x 31.1 cm, by Paul Klee (born in Switzerland in 1879). Klee began his artistic career in Munich. The piece simplified the form of buildings and the main subject of the painting into a one dimensional form.

Mondrian (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944) is a Dutch abstract painter, who focused on the elements of color and lines, mainly on primary colors as a study of space. Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930 expressed the idea of space by dividing squares with lines.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e2042?q=picasso&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit
J., Richardson. "Picasso, Pablo." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 2006. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e1371?q=paul+klee&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit
Rodgers, David. "Klee, Pauk." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T059051?q=mondrian&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Barton, Lin. "Mondrian, Piet." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 28 May 2015. Web. 

3. uses politics and people as inspiration.

    American street artist and social activist, Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990), is one of the few contemporary artists that have pervaded the subconscious of the general public on a grand scale. his work responded to the New York City treet culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts of birth, death, sexuality, and war. Iconic work Ignorance = Fear was completed in 1989 and features the distinctive style of Haring sending out a strong message about the AIDS epidemic, which had claimed the lives of several of his friends. 

    Jean-Michel Basquiat  (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He focused on street art and graffiti, and his works focused primarily on hip hop and post war culture.

    Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s,

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T036672?q=Keith+Haring&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
"Haring, Keith." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 9 July 2012. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T006752?q=Jean-Michel+Basquiat&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Barton, Lin. "Mondrian, Piet." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 28 May 2015. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T090699?q=andy+warhol&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Livingstone, Marco. "Warhol, Andy [Warhola, Andrew]." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 16 Oct. 2013. Web.

4. rebel against academy's technique. breaks classical and traditional form.

Sunrise by french artist Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) is an impressionistic painting created in 1873. Monet was famous for using unrealistic colors and stylistic brush strokes to forge his work.

    Van Gogh (3/30/1853 – 7/29/1890) His reputation thrived, long after his death in obscurity,  in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. He expressed the textures of the objects and the movement of light but using short broken brush strokes.

    Georges Seurat (9/2/1859 – 3/29/1891) was inspired by a desire to abandon Impressionism preoccupation with the fleeting moment. He was fascinated by a range of scientific ideas about color, form and expression. He is  the pioneer of the Neo-Impressionist technique commonly known as Divisionism, or Pointillism, an approach associated with a softly flickering surface of small dots or strokes of color. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte (1884-86)

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t118/e1778?q=monet&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1#firsthit
Stevenson, Lesley. "Monet, Claude." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web. 

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T033020?q=van+gogh&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

Uitert, Evert Van. "Gogh, Vincent Van." Oxford Art Online. N.p., n.d. Web.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T077838?q=Georges+Seurat+&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit
Smith, Paul. "Seurat, Georges(pierre)." Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, 9 July 2012. Web.  

5.  living in the moment, are the subjects of the painting doing their daily things, does the work of art describe the lives of people. capturing a specific moment in time.

    Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) is an American realist painter. Nighthawks is a painting Hopper did that captured the lives of on the normal night.

    Nan Goldin, (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a series of work of her and her boyfriend, the works captured the moment of their lives on a personal level. Comprising almost 700 snapshot-like portraits sequenced against an evocative music soundtrack, Nan Goldin The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative.

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T096531?q=Nan+Goldin&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit

Stonard, John-Paul. "Goldin, Nan." Oxford Art Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 July 2012. 

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111628

The Art Institute of Chicago Nighthawks, 1942. April 03, 2017