Movements in Art

This week you will examine the five movements listed below.

• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Romanticism
• Impressionism
• Modernism

In your paper, outline the following information for each of the five movements:

• Include the name and time period of the movement.
• Describe the movement, including unique key characteristics.
• Identify two works of art that incorporate the significant characteristics of the time period.
  • Include the following basic identifying information for each: artist
    name, title of work, year completed, medium (materials from which the
    artwork is made), size, and current location.

Example

• Name of Movement (time period)
  • Description of movement
  • Artwork significant to the movement
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region
• Name of Movement (time period)
  • Description of movement
  • Artwork significant to the movement
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region
    • Artist, title of work of art, year completed, region

Use at least two scholarly sources to support your points. Below are a list of websites you can pull from.

• Art and artists | Tate (http://www.tate.org.uk/art)
• Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/)
• Art Renewal Center Artist Index (http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php)
• The Frick Collection ( http://www.frick.org/art)
• Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)
• Guggenheim (http://www.guggenheim.org/)
• Louvre Museum Official Website (http://www.louvre.fr/en)
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org)
• MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art (https://www.moma.org/collection/)
• National Gallery of Art(https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings
• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (https://www.sfmoma.org/artists-artworks/
• SIRIS – Smithsonian Institute Research Information System (https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/ariquickstart.htm)
• Smithsonian Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/)
• The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/)
• Uffizi, Uffizi gallery, Florence (http://www.uffizi.com/)
• Vatican Museums – Official web site (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
• Victoria & Albert Museum (http://www.vam.ac.uk/)
• Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/)
• WebMuseum: Famous Artworks exhibition (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/)
• Whitney Museum of American Art (http://whitney.org/)