Styles of art

• Abstract Expressionism


  This is a painting style where the artist applies paint in a manner that expresses emotions and feelings in a spontaneous way.
• Kinetic Art


  This is the kind of sculpture that moves with the wind or powered by a machine or electricity.
• Op Art


  This style uses lines or images repeatedly to create an optical illusion.
• Performance Art


  Combines a variety of media and the human body to execute an artistic theatrical expression before a live audience
• Environmental art


  This involves the artistic creation or manipulation of space such as landscape or architectural design that may enclose its audience. Earthworks or works using natural objects like stones, leaves, trees, grass are included in this category.
• Feminist art


  This emerged from female artists expressing their concerns through art. They tackle issues of identity, sexuality, gender roles, equality, and the ways, which the female is treated in society, among others.
• Minimalism


  This style has a stripped-down, pre-fabricated look, free of details and often with flat surface, but expresses a specific content or statement.
• Video art


  This is the aesthetic communication through the design of time and three-dimensional space into two-dimensional images with sound. Film and video are essentially photograph shots in sequence to give an illusion of movement.
• Graffiti art


  This is a drawing, inscription or sketch done hastily on a wall or other surfaces that are to be seen by the public.
• Postmodern art


  This carries modern styles to extreme practices, often expressing an idea through a mix of materials, such as found objects welded together.
• Body art


  This is an art form that uses the body as the medium. The body may be painted or clothed and used to perform an artistic art in public. Tattooing and piercing are also considered body art.
• Digital art


  This is done with the aid of computer and computer programs to create an image or design. The image can be printed on paper, tarpaulin or other mediums.