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Neoclassicism
*Based on classical Greek and Roman art and culture
*Controlled, restrained writing dealing with expected, typical and familiar topics
*Heroic, mythology and historical events topics.
*Renaissance style
*Music: Mozart, Beethoven and Hayden
*Artists: Jacques-Louis David, Antonio Canova, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bertel Thorvaldsen. -
Romanticism
*Emotion and feelings
*Love of poetry
*Freedom
*A sense of idealism or optimism
*Emphasis on the splendor of nature
*Artists: Thomas Cole, Francesco Hayez, William Blake, Ivan Aivazovsky, John Constable. -
Realism
*Focuses on reality
*Social class were very important (low, middle, and upper class)
*Display real human qualities such as temper, selfishness, and insecurities
*Language is not poetic-natural vernacular (language spoken by ordinary people)
*mythical or classical figures
*Artists: Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Rosa Bonheur -
Fauvism
*Exaggerated, vibrant color
*Use of contrasting colors to create volume and structure
*Expressive brushwork
*Violent and emotional imagery
*Flattened perspectives.
*Artists: Henri Matisse, André Derain, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Albert Marquet -
Cubism
*Geometrical, conceptual art pieces
*Unrealistic images and sculptures
*More than one view
*Abstract
*Many artists wanted to portray life not how it seems in their art
*Artists: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Piet Mondrian, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera -
Surrealism
*Reaction to chaos in WWI
*Impossible scale
*Double images
*Distorted objects
*Juxtaposition
*Artists: Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, André Betron -
Abstract Expressionism
*Stressed energy and kineticism
*Emotional Expression
*Vivid colours
*Unconventional method of painting
*Spontaneous, automatic and subconscious creation
*Artists: Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns -
Pop art
*Every day objects
*Impersonal
*The main focus were the popular icons
*Comic-style
*Humorous. Plays with stereotypes
*Artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton -
Minimalism
*Geometric shapes and clean lines
*Industrial materials
*Repetition of form
*Removed the appearance of fine art
*Clean, bare, simple
*Artists: Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra