Styles of Arts

• SURREAL – means beyond or above reality
• ACTION PAINTERS ➤The artists worked in a spontaneous improvisatory manner often using large brush to make sweeping gestural marks.
• Used pure, brilliant colors applied straight from the paint tubes in a bold direct manner to create an explosive effect on the canvas. Artist of this style were called FAUVES
• COLOR FIELD PAINTERS The artists were deeply interested in religion and myth; and created simple compositions with large areas of single color intended to produce a contemplative or meditational response in the viewer.
• DADAISM ➤DADA artists referred their work as to have not been influenced by any movement, basic principles can be seen greatly from Cubism, and Expressionism.
• DADAISM >The art was characterized by a deliberate irrationality and the rejection of the prevailing standards of art.
• DADAISM >It is a style of painting which is a protest against the horrors of World War I, which artists believed had been a show of barbarism and oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society.
• SURREALISM ➤It was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artist who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination.
• SURREALISM ➤It was an art movement that sought to link the world of dreams with real life.
• REALISM Another style of art whose interest and concern centers around the actual or real problems. It deviates on the treatment of forms, colors, and space, as they appear in actuality or ordinary visual experience.
• FAUVISM >Used pure, brilliant colors applied straight from the paint tubes in a bold direct manner to create an explosive effect on the canvas. Artist of this style were called FAUVES
• CUBISM It is considered as the most influential art movement in the 20th century Characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art and the reduction of natural forms of their geometrical equivalent.
• ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM Abstract art is conceived apart from any realities, or specific objects. It pertains to the formal aspects of art in emphasizing lines, colors, and generalized geometric forms. This kind of art is a logical extension of cubism with its fragmentation of the object.
• ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM It is a post-World War II art movement that developed in New York in the 1940s. ➤There were actually no established styles, although the works put an emphasis on dynamic and energetic gesture. The intagery used primarily still abstract.
• EXPRESSIONISM ➤ Artist might incorporate fantasy and violence in their subject matter in order to show the extremes of emotion.
• EXPRESSIONISM The paintings, the primary art of which expressionism influenced, are full of vivid imagery and emotion and are often described as showing a touch of the dark side of human nature.
• Expressionist artist show emotions and personal views in their work. They portray subjective reality rather than realism.
• IMPRESSIONISM This method allowed the artists to emphasize the impression of their subject matter rather than paint the object in a more realistic manner.
• IMPRESSIONISM A scene may either be in natural setting or a man-made landscape, but outdoors are generally the subject, with vibrant colors without an emphasis on details.
• IMPRESSIONISM enabled the artist to paint an image in the way that someone might see it if they only caught a quick glimpse of the subject.
• OP ART Uses lines or images repeatedly to create an optical illusion.
• KINETIC ART A sculpture that moves with the wind or is powered by a machine or electricity.
• PERFORMANCE ART combines a variety of media and the human body to execute an artistic theatrical expression before a live audience.
• ENVIRONMENT ART involves the artistic creation or manipulation of space such as landscape or architectural design that may enclose its audience Earthworks, or art using stones, leaves, tress, grass or other natural elements are included in this category.
• VIDEO ART consists of Images that are recorded through a video and viewed through television, computer, or projection screen.
• FEMINIST ART Emerged from concerns of female artists expressed through art. They tackle issues of identity, sexuality, gender roles, equality, and the ways in which the female is treated in society.
• MINIMALISM had a stripped down, prefabricated look free of details and often with flat surface but expressos a specific content or statoment. An example is electric wire emerging from the wall that coils to form a particular shape.
• GRAFFITI ART a drawing Inscription or sketch done hastily on a wall or other surface made to be seq by the public.
• POSTMODERN ART carries modern styles to extreme practices, often expressing an idea through amix of materials such as found objects welded together.
• BODY ART an art form that uses the body as the medium or main material. It can be painted or clothed and used to perform artistic act in public. Tattooing and piercing are examples of body art.
• DIGITAL ART Is done with the aid of computer to create an image or design composed of bits and bytes. The Image can be printed on paper, tarpaulin, or other mediums.