Modernists strayed from the teachings and style of classical renaissance art and began to forge their own path.  Challenging the very definition of art, modernists began to work in different seemingly outrageous ways that propelled the art world into the the 19th and 20th century. Instead of depicting classical religious, or mythological themes Painters began to depict what they saw around them. They painted  everyday scenes of middle class workers and their daily lives. 

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) 

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) 

This article written by Klaus Herding, discuss the importance of Courbets work as well as his life achievements and his work with the French realists at the beginning of the 19th century. Oxford Art Online is a database of art and artists, giving valuable, credible information on art movements and specific artists through out the world. This article was helped me get a background on Gustave Courbet and his work, allowing me to relate his style back to the beginning of modernism in France. 

Finocchio, Author: Ross. "Nineteenth-Century French Realism | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Accessed February 12, 2017. 

“Nineteenth Century French Realism” is an article from the scholarly source of the Metropolitan museum of art’s online database. This article gave me the basics of one of the first modernist movements, French realism. This article also allowed me to further explore different artists of this moment and determine how it was significant to the birth of a new, world changing movement in art, Modernism. 

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1990)
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Claude Monet (1840-1926)

"Modern Art - Modern Art Terms and Concepts." The Art Story. Accessed March 05, 2017. http://www.theartstory.org/definition-modern-art.htm.

This article, "Modern Art - Modern Art Terms and Concepts” is an overview on how modernism came about. This was helpful to me to gain more information on how modernism began and changed into what it is today. This article as well as website was helpful, it gave a wide range of information as well as useful things such as timelines and links to terms that enabled you to do further research. 

"Impressionism (late 1800s)." Impressionism (late 1800s) | Scholastic ART | Scholastic.com. Accessed March 05, 2017. http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753926.

This article written by scholastic art was beneficial as well as helpful to get a grasp on how impressionism as a whole around the world changed the art world, advancing it forward indefinitely. This article supplemented my knowledge on the subject allowing me to make connections to the topic I was researching. Scholastic is a good source of information, a scholarly source with reliable facts. 

Gustave Moreau (1826–1898)

Edvard Munch (1863–1944)

This article was helpful in my research of symbolism, as it gave me a detailed view of the moment as well as some of the contributing artists. This article, from the Metropolitan museum of art’s website was informative and to the point, giving me a firm foundation on which to discus my view of what modernism is to me.   

Kang, Cindy. “Paul Gauguin (1848–1903).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gaug/hd_gaug.htm (March 2011)

This article, by the Metropolitan Museum of art was helpful and enlightening. By reading this piece It enhanced and supplemented my knowledge of Paul Gauguin and his work. As a very well known artist his work was pivotal to the creation of the symbolist movement. 

 

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.

 

Georges  Braque (1882-1963)

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)

Chapter 5 of this book, written by Jason Gaiger,  disused cubism and its evolution through out its popularity. This chapter was very helpful in my work, allowing me to understand the full extent of the cubist movement and how changed and developed as well as highlighting several different artist and their techniques.  As a prominent jump forward in the art world cubism was very important in the way it changed thinking that allowed us to reach this point in the history of art. 

Denvir, Bernard. Fauvism and expressionism. Woodbury, NY: Barron's, 1978.

This article written by Wassily Kandinsky in 1911, is a great insight on how a great and prominent abstract artist saw the world. In his article “the Effects of Color” Kandinsky discusses how color can effect a viewer in a extremely subjective and emotional almost tactile way. This article is extremely interesting to understand the thinking behind some of the most complex purely abstract work of the time.