Movements in painting

Movements in Painting
Tate Gallery Visit Preparation
(Designed to go with Headway Advanced (Old Edition) Unit 6, but works well with other classes, especially those doing museum visits)

With a partner, try and match the descriptions from the Tate Modern audioguide below to the pictures your teacher shows you:

precise dots of pure pigment

expressions of his own moods as reflected in the faces of nature

areas of flat, bold colour form decorative patterns, heavily outlined

the figures were an expression of the social decay of Paris in the so-called Gay Nineties

he was influenced by the flat style of Japanese prints

increasingly geometric approach towards the depiction of landscape forms and still-life objects

emphasises the flatness of the picture plane, or surface, and rejects traditional perspective

asserting the superiority of the unconscious and the role of dreams in artistic creation

inspired by rural widwestern (US) life

the subject of his quiet, contemplative paintings the solitude of individuals in modern cities and small towns

relies on producing generally abstract optical illusions for it’s art

drew their imagery from advertising billboards, movies, comic strips and everyday objects

relied on photography to achieve a precisely detailed, impersonal kind of realist painting

painting was reduced to simple geometric forms, rhythmic patterns or single colours

whose witty paintings were inspired by the art of children and psychopaths

agonised figures

When you go to the museum/ listen to or read the information on the museum website, check your answers.