Student Organizer
      Activity One


List of movements to research:

  • Impressionism
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Expressionism
  • DaDa
  • Some of the following: Die Brücke, Fauvism, Cubism, Bauhaus, Harlem Renaissance, Surrealism
  • Abstract Expressionism
  • Pop Art
  • Minimalism
  • Conceptual Art
  • Post-Modern Art
Provide the following information about your movement (and anything else you found interesting):
  • Time period the movement encompasses
  • A brief summary of the most important ideas behind the movement
  • Historical influences that led up to this movement, or a mention of what came before this movement
  • If the movement was a reaction to something, what was it?
  • The purpose of the movement--what was it trying to say about art
  • Media used by artists of the movement e.g., paint, photography, ready-made objects…
  • Major artists or founders of the movement
  • Characteristics of the artwork representing this movement
  • Initial reaction of the public to the movement
  • Two to three pieces of art work from this movement (Xeroxes, printouts from the Internet), along with why they are representative of this period
Art history sites for research


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