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Architecture – go to www.GreatBuildings.com and check out:

Louis H. Sullivan

Frank Lloyd Wright – his philosophy was that “form follows function”

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus school for art/design that focused on functionalism

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

 

Modern Painting – go to www.abcgallery.com and check out:

impressionism” – uninterested in capturing exact picture-like paintings, wanted to capture the impression or feeling of the painting

Monet

Renoir

Pissaro

postimpressionism or expressionism – extension of impressionism where things became even less real in appearance

van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Cezanne

Henri Matisse

fauvists” – concerned with arrangement of color, line, and form in and of itself (not the subject of the painting so much)

Picasso

cubism” – focused on geometry of lines and angles

Kandinsky

“Dadaism” – outrageous art almost for the sake of being outrageous