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• Impressionism:

  • Emerged in the second half of the 19th century
  • Artists used pure unmixed colors side by side with short broken strokes instead of solid lines for a more visual effect on the subject
  • Preferred working outdoors for natural light, incorporating unusual visual angles, out-of-proportion objects, and placing subjects off-centered and empty on the canvas
• Claude Monet:

  • Started impressionism in art
  • Best known for his landscape paintings like "Impression, Sunrise" (1872) and "Irises in Monet’s Garden" (1900)
• Auguste Renoir:

  • Another painter who practiced impressionism in artwork
  • His works include snapshots of real-life paintings of actual people and figures, like "Luncheon of the Boating Party" (1881)
• Edouard Manet:

  • Depicted modern life subjects, evident in his piece "Argenteuil" (1874)
• Expressionism:

  • Artists created work with more emotional force, using distorted outlines and unrealistic or unnatural images
  • Artworks in this movement are based on the artist’s imagination and feelings
• Amadeo Modigliani:

  • Adapted neoprimitivism in artworks, like "Yellow Sweater" (1919)
• Different Styles of Expressionist Art Movement:

  • Neoprimitivism combined elements from native parts of South Sea Islanders and wood carvings of African tribes
  • Fauvism emphasized strong colors and visual distortions
  • Dadaism characterized by imagination, remembered images, and visual tricks and surprises
  • Surrealism depicted an illogical subconscious dream world
  • Social Realism expressed the artist’s role in social reform, showing protest on injustice, inequality, immorality, and other concerns affecting the human condition
• Abstractionism:

  • Logical and rational, using geometrical shapes, patterns, lines, angles, textures, and swirls of color
• Different Styles of Abstractionist Art Movement:

  • Cubism focused on lines, planes, and angles
  • Futurism inspired by motion, force, speed, and strength of mechanical forms
  • Mechanical Style used planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders fitting together precisely
  • Non-objectivism did not make use of figures or representation of figures
• OP Art (Optical Art):

  • Gives a visual experience, creating the illusion of movement in the viewer’s eye
• Pop Art:

  • Made use of common, trivial, even nonsensical objects that pop artists enjoyed
• Performance Art:

  • Actions of an individual or a group in a particular space and time constitute the work
• Elements of art that help in understanding how art communicates include colors, symbolic quality of shape, line movement, quality of texture, and the drama of lighting
• Design principles behind effective and thought-provoking art forms and graphic designs can be read and explored
• Materials and techniques in art can be explored through firsthand experience
• In art, the elements of LINE can be expressive and have qualities like scribbles, whimsical, implied, blurred, aggressive, and calligraphic
• Shapes in art can be geometric, biomorphic, amorphous, or implied
• Form in art refers to the quality or likeness of an entire mass and employs techniques such as shading, perspective, and lighting
• Value in art refers to the lightness and darkness of a hue or color
• Color in art, also known as hue, plays a significant role in artistic expression
• Texture in art refers to the quality of surface or visual representation of those qualities, which can be achieved through techniques like impasto, stamping, scratching, and embossing
• Light in art creates the illusion that color, form, and texture exist, as seen in Chiaroscuro art
• Space in art is the area where the other elements can interact, including negative vs. positive space
• Representational art mimics what is real or what can be seen, while abstract art is a modified interpretation of something that exists but becomes hardly recognizable, and nonrepresentational art is purely concerned with forms, shapes, colors, and other elements
• Principles of design like contrast, harmony, balance, rhythm and movement, unity and variety, emphasis and subordination, scale and proportion, and depth and perspective play crucial roles in creating impactful artworks
• Psychology in art includes concepts like Gestalt theory, color psychology, and compositional functions of lines and shapes
• Materials and techniques in art can be categorized into 2-dimensional (photography, drawing, painting, printmaking), 3-dimensional (found objects, casting and molding, subtractive and additive sculpture), and ephemeral (performance art and video art)
• Art criticism involves the analysis and evaluation of works of art
• Methods in reading art include:

  • Formalism and style, which gives importance to formal qualities as a basis for the meaning of art
  • Iconography, which focuses on the subject matter over form
  • Contextual approaches, which place an artwork within a certain parameter such as Marxism and Feminism
• Biography and autobiography in art analysis connect the artist’s life, beliefs, choices, and personality directly to the works they create
• Semiotics in art analysis assumes that an artwork is composed of a set of signs that may have significant cultural or contextual meanings
• Psychoanalysis in art analysis is concerned about the unconscious mind in relation to the artist, the viewer, and the cultural context involved