Art Styles and Movements

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Art Styles and movements

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abstract Movement

• Early 20th century, around the 1910s
• Wassily Kandinsky first important abstract artist
• Abstract art does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality, instead focusing on emotions or concepts

• Style Characteristics:
• does not depict people, places, or things as they appear in the real world
• Emphasizes shapes, free-flowing forms, and completely random marks
• Bold use of color

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representational art

• Been around since the prehistoric cave paintings

• Representational art depicts recognizable subjects from the real world, including people, landscapes, objects, and events.

• Style Characteristics:

• portrays subjects from reality, such as figures, animals, landscapes, and still lifes.
• can range from hyper-realistic depictions to more stylized forms that still resemble the original subject
• Often emphasizes accuracy in proportions, lighting, texture, and color to create a believable image

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NON-OBJECTIVE MOVEMENT

• Early 20th century, around the 1910s
• Emerged alongside other forms of abstract art
• Wassily Kandinsky seen as earliest pioneer of non-objective art

• Non-objective art does not reference any specific visual subject or object from reality
• Focuses purely on the elements of art itself

• Style Characteristics:
• avoids depicting any real-world objects or subjects
• focuses on basic visual elements such as color, line, shape, form, texture, and space
• many non-objective works emphasize the flatness of the canvas, avoiding the illusion of depth or perspective

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Impressionist movement

• 1860s - early 1900s
• Claude Monet's painting "Impression, Sunrise" gave the movement its name
• Instead of painting the world with idealized forms and perfect symmetry, artists concentrated on the world as they saw it, imperfections and all

• Style Characteristics:
• attempted to offer the artists’ impression, or interpretation, of something
• Used large brushstrokes painted thickly and somewhat sloppily to quickly capture effects of natural light on their subjects

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Impressionism

Expressionist movement

• early 1900s to 1933
• Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh were influentual to the movement
• encouraged distortion of form and the use of strong colors to convey a variety of anxieties and yearnings
• Art was now meant to come forth from within the artist, rather than from a depiction of the external visual world
• Style Characteristics:
• swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes in the depiction of their subjects

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expressionism