Art Final Style Guide Practice

Pre-Historic (before writing)

Cave paintings of animals, loosely done, great vitality and movement. Small, portable sculpture. Paleolithic(Nomadic)Neolithic (Agricultural)

Ancient Near East

Bronze. Small Statues, Ziggurats, carved reliefs. Some violent, some calm and humble. Narrative. Beginnings of civilization.

Egyptian

Great monuments (Pyramid tombs) painted tombs, huge statues and small delicate works. Stiff body conventions (twisted torso). Very ordered and strict, lots of symbolism. Hierarchical scale. Burial goods.

Greek

Beauty, Harmony, Order. The Idealized view of man. Temples to the gods, cities, theatres, etc. The true beginning of "Western Culture." Art for Art's sake.

Roman

Similar to Greek but more realistic, shows people as they really look. Very narrative. Innovators in architecture.

Christian

Themes from the Bible. Few nudes. Teaching art. Move away from realism toward symbolic form.

Byzantine (East)

Retains Greek harmony. Themes from Bible. Mosaics. Not very realistic. (No illusion of depth.)

Medieval (Romanesque)

Early medieval--heavy architecture, stiff and often twisted figures, nervous, excited style. Use of round "Roman" arches.

Medieval (Gothic)

The great cathedrals (Notre Dame) Flying buttresses, pointed arches. Stained glass. French style, which spreads all over Europe. Move toward realism in both figures and decoration.

Italian Renaissance

Return to the ideals of Greek and Roman period. (Re-birth of Greco-Roman style). Man as a noble, perfect creature combined with Biblical themes. Mostly religious art. Humanism

Northern Renaissance

Dutch, Flemish, and German Renaissance. Move towards greater realism and more emotion. Influenced by the Reformation (Protestant).

Baroque

Takes realism from Renaissance and adds more movement, drama, energy, light, passion.

Rococo

Highly ornamental, busy, light-hearted, rich. (Pink, fluffy, clouds and cherubs.)Style of the aristocracy.

Neo-Classicism

Severely linear style- precise line. Cool, calm, classical.(Style of the French and American Revolutions.)

Romanticism

Highly emotive, sometimes horrific or sublime imagery. Images from the mind or psyche - often a literary connection. Nature over man.

Realism

New subject matter: current events and the modern world. Landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes.

Impressionism

Capturing the effects of light on surfaces, especially in landscape motifs. Brushwork more loose, painterly effects giving a sensation or "impression" of the image. Subject matter: Nature and the newly created middle-class

Post-Impressionism

Inspired by Impressionism. Two wings: One interested more in form and structure, the other interested more in emotion and symbolism. 1.Cezanne, Seurat. 2.Gauguin, van Gogh.

Art Nouveau

Decorative, floral, delicate designs - sensual rhythms and arabesque line.

Expressionism Fauvism

French form of Expressionism, intense color. Flattened space, little or no linear perspective. Leader: Matisse.

German Expressionism

fauve-like color, more acerbic in mood, angst-filled emotions. Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter groups. Kirchner, Nolde, Kandinsky, Marc, Beckmann, Kollwitz

Cubism

Faceted, broken forms, showing many sides at once. Some African and Oceanic influences. Leader: Picasso.

International Architectural Style

Clean, sleek, architecturewith no decoration.

Dada

Anti-art, anti-rationalism. An art focused on ideas and statements. Leaders: Tristan Tzara and Marcel Duchamp.

Surrealism

Focus on the subconscious and the world of dreams and visions. Utilized elements of chance and the accidental. Influenced by modern psychology: Freud and Jung. Leaders: Andre Breton, Dali, Miro.

Action Painting

Part of Abstract Expressionism. Very personal, expressive imagery and brushwork. Usually completely abstract(no recognizable forms). A very process-oriented art. Also influenced by modern psychology - More Jung though than Freud. Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock.

Color-Field Painting

Part of Abstract Expressionism. Saturated color applied either flatly or using a staining technique. Rothko, Frankenthaler.

Pop Art

Using commercial art elements as fine art. Warhol, Johns, Oldenburg.

Op Art

Focusing on optical effects

Minimalism

Totally abstract....very few forms. Sometimes associated with Gestalt Psychology

Performance Art

Art through actions. Beuts, Anderson.

Earthworks

Large projects often involving large spatial areas of an actual landscape and many people. Christo, Smithson, Holt.

Conceptual Art

Idea-oriented art. Kosuth.

Perceptual Art

Art that changes the way you "see" a space or form. Irwin, Turrell.

Post-Modernism

Eclectic use of past styles.

Post-Impressionism (people)

Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh

Expressionism (people

Matisse

German expressionism (people)

Die Brucke and Dee Blaue Reiter groups. Kierchener, Nolde, Kadinsky, Mare, Beckmann, Kollwitz

Cubism (people)

PIcasso

Dada (people)

Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp

Surrealism (people)

Andre Breton, Dali, Miro

Action painting (people)

Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock

Color-Field Painting (people)

Rothko, Frankenthaler

Pop art (people)

Warhol, Johns, Oldenburg

Performance art (people)

Beuys, Anderson

Earthworks (people)

Christo, Smithson, Holt

Conceptual art (people)

Kosuth

Perceptual Art (people)

Irwin, Turrell

Paleolithic

Paleolithic

Neolithic

Ancient Near East

Ancient near east

Egyptian

Egyptian

Greek (specifically classical)

Roman

Roman

Ancient near east

Christian (west)

Christian (west)

Christian (west)

Byzantine (east)

Byzantine (east)

Byzantine (east)

Byzantine (east)

Medieval (Romanesque)

Medieval (Romanesque)

Medieval (Romanesque)

Medieval (gothic)

Medieval (gothic)

Medieval (gothic)

Medieval (gothic)

Medieval (gothic)

Medieval (gothic)

Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

Baroque

Baroque

Baroque

Baroque

Baroque