Arts 1 | 2.9 - Art Movements & Styles

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

describing a highly dynamic and spontaneous application of vigorous brushstrokes and spilling paint onto the canvas.

ART DECO

merged modern aesthetic with skillful craftsmanship, advanced technology, and elegant materials.

ART NOVEAU

chief manifestations in architecture and the decorative and graphic arts; characterized by sinuous, asymmetrical lines based on organic forms.

BAROQUE

emphasizes dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, a far cry from Surrealism to produce drama, tension.

BAUHAUS

experimental pedagogy that focused on materials nad functions rather than traditional art school methodologies.

CLASSICISM

concentrates on traditional forms with a focus on elegance and symmetry.

CONCEPTUAL ART

emphasizes ideas and theoretical practices rather than the creation of visual forms.

CONSTRUCTIVISM

mostly geometric and accurately composed, sometimes through mathematics and measuring tools.

CUBISM

reinvented traditional subjects such as nudes, landscapes, and still-lifes as increasingly fragmented compositions.

DADA/DADAISM

response to traditional social values and conventional artistic properties of different types of art at the time.

DIGITAL ART

covers variety of creative practices that employ different electronic technologies and result in a final product that is also digital.

EXPRESSIONISM

expresses meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.

FAUVISM

characterized by strong, vibrant, colour and bold brushstrokes over realistic or representational qualities.

FUTURISM

aims to capture dynamism, speed and energy of the modern mechanical world.

IMPRESSIONISM

use of small and thin brush strokes to form a single scene and emphasize movement and changing qualities of light.

INSTALLATION ART

large-scale, mixed-media constructions, designed for a specific place for a temporary period of time.

NEO-IMPRESSIONISM

spontaneity of impressionism measured and systematic painting grounded in science and optics

NEO-CLASSICISM

opposite of pop art, inspired from the classical art and culture of Ancient Greece & Rome.

POINTILLISM

 use of small dots or strokes to make pictures.

POP ART

emphasized banal or kitschy elements or life in forms as mechanically reproduced silkscreens.

POST-IMPRESSIONISM

expressing emotional and psychological responses to the world through bold colours and often symbolic images.

PRIMITIVISM

subjects are flat or two-dimensional.

REALISM

represent subject matter truthfully without artificiality, rejects imaginatize idealization of observations of outward appearances.

ROCOCO

characterized by elaborate ornamentation and light, sensuous style including scrollwork, foliage, and animal forms.

ROMANTICISM

modern-day non-religious form of humanism focus on human interests, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity and the primacy of the individual.

SURREALISM

to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism.

SUPREMATISM

abstract style of painting that conforms belief that art expressed in simplest geometric forms and dynamic compositions was superior to earlier forms of representational art.