Dictionary of Art and Artists







Art Styles in 20th century Art Map









Year by Year from 1900 to 1999


Art Styles, Schools, Groups and Movements

 

1900 - 1916 1916 - 1924 1924 - 1929 1930 - 1960 1960 - 1999
Expressionism Dadaism Surrealism New Architecture Pop Art
Cubism Bauhaus Magic realism Abstract Expressionism Performance art
Futurism Art Deco Fantastic realism Art brut Photorealism
 


Surrealism
- 1924


EXPLORATION:
Surrealist Art  (by Sarane Alexandrian)

Precursors
Joos de Momper
Giovanni Battista Braccelli
Rodolphe Bresdin

Augustin Lesage
Adolf Wolfli

Anti-art
(Dadaism)
Hans Richter (Dadaism)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
(Dadaism)

Conquest of the marvellous (Pittura Metafisica)
Andre Breton - Manifeste du surrealisme
Pierre Roy

Surrealism and painting
EXPLORATION: Rene Magritte "Thought rendered visible" (by Marcel Paquet)
Max Ernst
Max Ernst "A Week of Kindness" (A surrealistic novel in collage)
Andre Masson
Joan Miro
Yves Tanguy

Georges Malkine

Man Ray
Georges Hugnet
E.L.T. Mesens

Towards a revolutionary art
EXPLORATION: Salvador Dali (by Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret)
Alberto Giacometti
Oscar Dominguez
Wolfgang Paalen
Victor Brauner
Hans Bellmer

Across the world
Rene Magritte
Paul Delvaux
Raoul Ubac
Wilhelm Freddie
Jindrich Styrsky
Toyen
Roland Penrose
Paul Nash
Eileen Agar
Edward Burra
Stellan Morner
Erik Olson
Esaias Thoren
Sven Jonson
Waldemar Lorentzon
Axel Olson
Rita Kernn-Larsen
Taro Okamoto

The object
Meret Oppenheim
Joseph Cornell
Jacques Doucet
Jean Benoit
Elsa Schiaparelli

Festivals of the imagination
Kurt Seligmann
Leonora Carrington
Richard Oelze
Dora Maar
Esteban Frances
Gordon Onslow-Ford
Kay Sage
Brassai
Valentine Hugo
Jean Hugo
Jacqueline Lamba

In the United State
Dorothea Tanning
Matta
Wifredo Lam
Alexander Calder
Morris Hirshfield

Surrealist architecture
Ferdinand Cheval
Simon Rodia
Bruno Taut
Hermann Finsterlin
Frank Lloyd Wright

Bruce Alonzo Goff
Frederick Kiesler

The post-war period
Enrico Donati
Jacques Herold
Clovis Trouille
Leonor Fini
Felix Labisse

Isamu Noguchi
Emile Malespine
Maria Martins

Occultation
Pierre Molinier
Enrico Baj
Alberto Gironella
Max Walter Svanberg
Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern
Jean-Claude Silbermann
Jorge Camacho
Agustin Cardenas
Ugo Sterpini
Fabio de Sanctis


EXPLORATION:
Surrealism  "The Dream of Revolution"

INTRODUCTION
BEFORE SURREALISM THERE WAS...
THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE

Sophie Taeuber
Morton Livingston Schamberg
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Johannes Baader
Johannes Baargeld
THE SURREALIST REVOLUTION
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SURREALISM

Frida Kahlo
Lee Miller
Andre Kertesz
Raoul Ubac

POSTSCRIPT: LEGACIES

Artists Groups - 1924-1929
Devetsil. Czech avant-garde group-1924
Blue Four. Group of German painters - 1924
Block group. Polish avant-garde group - 1924
Kapists. Polish group of painters - 1924
Fellowship of St Luke. Polish group of painters - 1925
Association of Revolutionary Art of Ukraine. - 1925
Gresham group. Association of Hungarian artists - 1925
Gruppe Progressiver Kunstler. German group of artists - 1925
OSA. Soviet architectural group - 1925
Circle of Artists. Russian group of painters and sculptors - 1926
Gruppo 7.
Italian group of architects - 1926
Scuola Romano.
Group of artists active in Rome - 1927
Szentendre colony. Hungarian artists’ colony - 1928
Der Block. German association of architects - 1928
CIAM. International organization of modern architects - 1928
CIRPAC. Elected executive organ of CIAM, Switzerland -  1928
Halmstad group.
Swedish group of six painters - 1929
Artes. Group of Polish avant-garde artists - 1929
Aeropittura. Italian movement - 1929
Cercle et Carre. Movement founded in Paris - 1929
Union des Artistes Modernes. French group of architects - 1929
Vopra. Russian architectural group - 1929



Addition:
From Surrealism to Fantastic Art

Surrealism, Dream art, Visionary art, Neo-surrealism, Magic realism, Psychedelic art,
Fantastic realism, Vienna School of Fantastic realism, Fantastic art.


 

Surrealism
 

Dietrich Schughardt
Pavel Tchelitchew
Stanley Hayter
Arnulf Rainer
Boris Margo
James Gleeson
Antonio Berni
Collette Calascione
Alfredo Castaneda
Tiffany Bozic
Anne Bachelier
Marcel Jean
Edward Wadsworth
Nicholas Kalmakoff
Catalina Chervin
Felix de Recondo
 

Surrealism - photographers

Claude Cahun
Bill Brandt 
Edward Weston
Clarence Laughlin
Paul Outerbridge
Rodney Smith
Maurice Tabard
Joyce Tenneson
Jerry Uelsmann
Dominic Rouse
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Paul Cava
 



Dream art

Jake Baddeley



Visionary art
 

Remedios Varo
A. Andrew Gonzalez

Antonio Roybal
De Es Schwertberger
Robert Venosa
Vincent  Castiglia
Amanda Sage
Alex Grey
 



Neo-surrealism

George Grie
Mirko Sevic



Magic realism
 

Heather Nevay
John Wilde
Charles Becker
Brad Noble
George Tooker
Rob Gonsalves
Michael Parkes
Paul Cadmus
Ivan Albright
Jared French
Peter Blume
Will Wilson
Mati Klarwein
 



Psychedelic art

M.C. Escher
Hans Ruedi Giger



Fantastic realism, Vienna School of Fantastic realism
 

Rudolf Hausner
Ernst Fuchs
Brigid Marlin
Hugues Gillet
Victor Safonkin
Aric Brauer
Wolfgang Hutter
Bruno di Majo
Jacek Yerka
Odd Nerdrum
 



Fantastic art
 

Zdzislaw Beksinski
David Bowers
Frank Kortan
Siegfried Zademack

Michael Fuchs
Jaroslaw Kukowski
Chris Mars
David Ho
Eli Tiunine
Joshifumi Hayahi
Jito
Katharina Kranichfeld
Michael Bergt
Edward Black Kim
Istvan Sandorfi