MOVEMENTS

• Primitive Arts


  Art that often represented scenes of hunting and deities, including cave paintings
• Egyptian Art


  • Produced by the civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BCE to 300 CE, including sculpture, painting, architecture, and other arts
  • Emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past were the goals of the artist from this period
• Classical Greek Art


  • Images of gods, human and heroes
  • Greek's self-awareness is manifested in the manner they decided to mirror themselves and the world, both real and imaginary
• Classical Roman Art


  • Greatly influenced by the Greeks
  • Included a broad spectrum of media including painting, marble, silver and bronze work, terracotta, and gems
• Asian Arts - Chinese


  • Stone age people made decorated objects of bones, stones, and pottery
• Asian Arts - Japanese


  • Japanese art shows unique styles and means of expression, including ceramics, sculpture, painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, the ukiyo-e woodblock prints, origami, and more recently manga together with a vast array of other types of artworks
• Medieval Period


  • Art evolved as the traditional and the new subjects were continuously addressed by humans, including biblical subjects, Christian dogmas, and classical mythology
• Early Renaissance


  • Also known as the Quattrocento, referring primarily to the period dominating the 15th century in Italian art, with notable artists like Masaccio, Filippo Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Andrea Mantegna, and Sandro Botticelli
• Renaissance Art


  • Artists were believed to be those who have perfected the depiction of human proportion and emotion in their art
  • High Renaissance celebrated man's ability to create works that were deemed perfect, with notable artists like Titian, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Da Vinci
• Mannerism


  • The term was derived from the Italian word Manierismo, from maniera which means "manner," or "style"
  • Mannerist artists began to reject the harmony and ideal proportions of the Renaissance in favor of irrational settings, artificial colors, unclear subject matters, and elongate forms
• Baroque


  A movement in art and architecture that emphasizes dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur
• Rococo


  • A style in interior design, including the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture
  • The word Rococo is derived from the French rocaille, which denoted the shell-covered rock work that was used to decorate artificial grottoes
• Neo-Classicism


  • A form of art that started when Greek and Roman antiquity and painters of the Renaissance were imitated by artists as a reaction to the Baroque's and Racoco's excessive style
  • The primary Neoclassicist belief was that art should express the ideal virtues in life and could improve the viewer by imparting a moralizing message
• Romanticism


  • A disagreement of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that exemplified classicism in general and late 18th century Neoclassicism in particular
  • Artists began exploring various emotional and psychological states as well as moods
• Realism


  • An artistic movement that began in the 1850s, rejecting the dominated French literature and art of Romanticism
  • Sought to portray "real" contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, including all the unpleasant or sordid aspects of life
• Impressionism


  • A major movement, first in painting and later in music that flourished principally in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • In painting, this movement used to refer to a group of artists who made use of light brush strokes and less vibrant colors in their work
• Post Impressionism


  • An art movement that concentrated on the artists' subjective visions, as artists opted to evolve emotions rather than realism in their work
  • Painting during this era transcended its traditional role as a window onto the world and instead became a window into the artists' mind and soul
• Symbolism


  An important move away from the naturalism of the Impressionists, showing a preference for feeling over intellectualism. which is

  also known as Synthetism,
• Nouveau


  • A French term meaning "new art", popular between 1890 and 1905
  • Characterized by the use of winding lines, organic forms, and asymmetrical lines, with a highly decorative outcome
• Fauvism


  • A style of painting that became popular in France and was formed around friendships between artists around the turn of the 20th century
  • Fauve artists painted directly from nature with works invested with a strong expressive reaction to the subjects portrayed
• Cubism


  A movement that used techniques and ideas influencing many creative disciplines
• Futurism


  A movement that focused on progress and modernity, sought to sweep away traditional artistic notions, and replaced with an energetic celebration of the machine age
• Dadaism


  • An anti-war politics art movement that grew out of anger over the proponents perceived as an unjust and senseless war, making its way to the world through art manifestoes, literature, poetry and eventually graphic design and the visual arts
  • Characterized by the use and reinterpretation of available materials or existing artwork
• Surrealism Arts


  • A movement formed as early as 1917 in Europe between World Wars I and II as a reaction against what its proponents saw as the destruction brought about by "rationalism"
  • In a surreal painting, objects are arranged in a seemingly fantastical manner
• Constructivism


  An artistic and architectural philosophy that rejected the idea of autonomous art, with the goal to "construct", thereby emphasizing on building and science, rather than artistic expression
• De Stijl Art


  A style developed by the Dutch that proposed ultimate simplicity and abstraction through which they could express a Utopian idea of harmony and order
• Abstract Expressionism Art


  • Abstract Expressionists in New York conveyed their art in varying degrees of abstraction like the use of broken lines, strong colors and from emotional to expressive content
  • Abstract expressionist qualities are also evident in other forms of art such as in sculpture and photography
• Optical Art


  • Comprised of illusion and often appears to the human eye to be moving or breathing due to its precise, mathematically-based composition
  • It is in print and television, in LP album art, and in fashion motif in clothing and interior design where optical art can be seen
• Pop Art


  • This art comprises advertising, news, comic books, and mundane cultural objects
  • The art was a reaction to the seriousness of Abstract Experiment Art