Art Movements: Post-Impressionism to Surrealism

Posted on Mar 19, 2025 in Performing Arts

Post-Impressionism (International, Centered in France)

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892-95
  • Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884-86
  • Vincent Van Gogh, Night Café, 1888 (Dutch, working in France)
  • Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889
  • Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888
  • Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897
  • Paul Cézanne, Basket of Apples, c. 1895
  • Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902-04

Symbolism (International)

  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Sacred Grove, 1884, France
  • Gustave Moreau, Jupiter and Semele, c. 1875, France
  • Odilon Redon, The Cyclops, 1898, France
  • Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, Norway

Fin-de-siècle: Various Styles

  • Gertrude Käsebier, Blessed Art Thou Among Women, America, 1899 (Pictorialist photography)
  • Auguste Rodin, Walking Man, France, 1905 (Classicism/Naturalism/Impressionism)
  • Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, France, 1884-89 (Classicism/Naturalism/Impressionism)
  • William Morris, Green Dining Room, South Kensington Museum, England, 1867 (Arts & Crafts Movement)

Art Nouveau (International)

  • Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, Austria, 1907-08 (Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts Movement)
  • Victor Horta, staircase in the Van Eetvelde House, Brussels, Belgium, 1895
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany, Lotus table lamp, America, c. 1905
  • Antonio Gaudi, Casa Milá, Barcelona, Spain, 1907

Architecture at the End of the 19th Century

  • Louis Sullivan, Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo, NY, America, 1894-96
  • Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building, Chicago, IL, America, 1899-1904
  • Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1889

Fauvism (1905-1908, France)

  • Henri Matisse, Woman with the Hat (Madame Matisse), 1905, France
  • Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life), 1905-06, France
  • Matisse, Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908-09, France
  • André Derain, The Dance, 1906, France

German Expressionism (c. 1905-1940)

German Expressionism: Die Brücke (The Bridge) (c. 1905-13, Germany)

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908
  • Emil Nolde, Saint Mary of Egypt among Sinners, 1912

German Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) (c. 1911-18, Germany)

  • Vassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912 (Russian, working in Germany)
  • Franz Marc, Fate of the Animals, 1913
  • Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903
  • Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Seated Youth, 1917

Cubism (International)

AC = Analytic Cubism; SC = Synthetic Cubism

  • Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906-07 (Spanish, working in France)
  • Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 (AC)
  • Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911, France (AC)
  • Robert Delaunay, Champs de Mars or The Red Tower, 1911, France (Cubism/Orphism)
  • Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912 (Cubism)
  • Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912 (SC)
  • Braque, Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass, 1913 (SC)
  • Picasso, Maquette for Guitar, 1912 (SC)
  • Jacques Lipchitz, Bather, 1917 (Lithuanian, working in France) (Cubism)
  • Alexandr Archipenko, Woman Combing Her Hair, 1915 (Russian, working in France) (Cubism)
  • Julio González, Woman Combing Her Hair, 1938 (Spanish, working in France) (Cubism)
  • Fernand Léger, The City, 1919, France (Cubism/Purism)

Futurism (Italy and France), 1909-c. 1914

  • Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, Italy
  • Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Italy
  • Gino Severini, Armored Train, 1915, Italy

Dada (International, 1916-23)

  • Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 (reconstruction 1930)
  • Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23
  • Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-20
  • Kurt Schwitters, Merz 19, 1920

Surrealism (International, 1924-39)

  • Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914, Italy
  • Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924
  • Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
  • René Magritte, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928-29, Belgium
  • Magritte, The Human Condition, 1934
  • Meret Oppenheim, Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), 1938
  • Paul Klee, Twittering Machine, 1922