MAPEH Art Styles

Dadaism

One of its characteristics is it has only one rule: Never follow any known rules.

Social Realism

The artists in this style were united in their attack on the status quo and social power structure

Impressionism

An art movement & style of painting that started in France in the 1860s depicts candid glimpses of the subject

Cubism

The artists abandoned perspective, which had been used to depict space since the Renaissance, and they also turned away from the realistic modeling of figures.

Expressionism

It is an artistic style in which an artist attempts to portray not the objective reality but more the subjective emotions and responses that the objects, events, or situations arouse in him/her.

Futurism

The artists were fascinated by the problems of representing modern experience and strived to have their paintings evoke all kinds of sensations.

Neo-Primitivism

A movement or trend in Russian painting in the early 20th century with influences from the Western avant-garde.

Pop Art

It aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture.

Op Art

It can be seen as the successor to geometric abstraction, its stress on illusion and perception suggests that it might also have older ancestors.

Fauvism

Its major contribution to modern art was its radical goal of separating color from its descriptive, representational purpose and allowing it to exist on the canvas as an independent element.