ELBOW and Types of Art

Everyday - subjects and events

Lighting - Captures effects of natural light . Color in artwork is

illuminated…or seems to glow

Brushstrokes - Artists have broken the solid shape into smaller

pieces and blurred the edges, creating dabs of color that blend

together.

Outdoor – en plein air was a common setting

Weather – weather and atmosphere were ‘captured’

dadaism - 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.

social realism - The artists in this style were united in their attack on

the status quo and social power structure.

expressionism - The artists were fascinated by the problems of

representing modern experience and strived to have their paintings evoke all

kinds of sensations.

fauvism - Its major contributions to modern art were its radical goal of

separating color from its descriptive, representational purpose and allowing

it to exist on the canvas as an independent element.

expressionism (e) - It is an artistic style in which an artist attempts to

portray not the objective reality but more on the subjective emotions and

responses that the objects, events, or situations arouse in him/her.

dadaism (a) - One of its characteristics is it had only one rule: Ner

follow any known rules.

neo-primitivism (g) - A movement or trend in Russian painting in the

early 20th century in which influences from the Western avant-garde.

pop art (h) - It aimed to blur the boundaries between "high"art and

"low" culture.

op art (i) - It can be seen as the successor to geometric abstraction, its

stress on illusion and perception suggests that it might also have older

ancestors.

impressionism (c) - An art movement & style of painting that started

in France in the 1860s that depicts candid glimpses of subject.