Brigidine College Library

Assignment Pathfinder

   

 

  Year 10 Art

 

Modern Art Movements

 

Search Terms:

Search under these particular headings in the Alice catalogue, in the indexes/contents pages of books, on databases and on the Web.

 

Art, Modern – 19th century

Art, Modern – 20th century

Art, Modern – 21st century

Impressionism (Art)

Post-Impressionism (Art)

Fauvism

Expressionism

Cubism

Surrealism

Pop Art

Abstractionism

Abstract Expressionism

Art - History

 

 

 

Shelf Locations:  Look for books in the following locations.

 

Dewey Number 

     701

     709

     709.03

     709.04

     709.05

     759.05

 

     759.06

 

 

     759.07

Topic

Art appreciation

Art history (search indexes for topics)

19th century art movements

20th century art movements

21st  century art movements

19th century painting movements

(includes Impressionism).

20th century painting movements

(includes abstractionism, cubism, expressionism, pop art and surrealism)

21st century painting movements

 

Encyclopedias:

*  Look in our Reference section:  General encyclopedias like World Book (R 030 ENC), Encyclopedia Britannica (R 030 ENC), Comptons Encyclopedia (R 030 COM), Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia (R 030 LEX) as well as the specialist art encyclopedia The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art (R 703 MAC)

           

*  Look at our online collection:  Brigidine College Online Encyclopedias

 

Internet Sites:

GENERAL

Art Cyclopedia: the Fine Arts Cyclopedia – Artists by Movement

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/index.html

 

Big Chalk’s Modern Art – Styles and Movements

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~cab~25820~~

 

Artchive

http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

 

Artlino: The Magic of Art – Modern Art Movements

http://www.artelino.com/articles/modern_art_periods.asp

 

ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary

http://www.artlex.com/

 

WebMuseum, Paris – Painters and themes

 http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/

 

World Wide Arts Resources – Artists, Masters and Sub-Categories

http://wwar.com/categories/Artists/Masters/

 

Trinity College (W.A.) – Rosemary Horton

http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au/subjects/arts/art/default.htm

 

Nancy Doyle Fine Art – Art Appreciation

http://www.ndoylefineart.com/artapprec.html

 

IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionism

http://www.impressionism.org/

 

School of Impressionism: Characteristics and Historical Development

http://www.fleischer.org/intro.html

 

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

About.com Art History – Post-Impressionism General (1880-1920s)

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/postimpgeneral/

 

About.com Art History – Post-Impressionism Artists (1880-1920s)

 http://arthistory.about.com/cs/postimpartists/

 

FAUVISM

About.com Art History - Fauvism

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/fauvism/

 

The Fauves: The Wild Beasts of Early 20th Century Art

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2933/fauves/

 

Fauve

http://psych.fullerton.edu/psych466/psantiago/fauve.html

 

EXPRESSIONISM

About.com Art History – Expressionism General (1890s to 1920)

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/expressionismg/

 

About.com Art History – Expressionism Artists (1890s to 1920)

 http://arthistory.about.com/cs/expressionisma/

 

CUBISM

Cubism Gallery ASADA

http://www.cubism-asada.com/

 

About.com Art History – Cubism General (1905-1939)

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/cubismgeneral/

 

About.com Art history – Cubism Artists (1905-1939)

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/cubismartists/

 

SURREALISM

History of Surrealism

http://www.bway.net/~monique/history.htm

 

What is Surrealism? Andre Breton

http://www.myism.com/what-is-surrealism.htm

 

Surrealism Gallery

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/

 

POP ART

WWW.PopArt - Index of Pop Artists

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~toms/PopArt/contents.html

 

PopArtists.com

http://www.popartists.com/

 

About.com Art History – Pop Art

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/popart/

 

ABSTRACTION and ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Abstraction in the 20th Century

http://artnetweb.com/abstraction/frontis.html

 

Rebel Painters of the 1950s

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/painters.htm

 

Abstract Expressionism

http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/tl/20th/abs-expr.html

 

About.com Art History  - Abstract Expressionism

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/abstractexpress/