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Jan 1, 1149
Gothic Art
Gothic Art was a from of medieval art that developed in Northern France in the 12th Century AD. It spread throughout western Europe but never really effected the classical styles in Italy. In the late 14th century, the sophisticated court style of International Gothic developed, which continued to evolve until the late 15th century. In many areas, especially Germany, Late Gothic art continued well into the 16th century, before being subsumed into Renaissance art. Sculpture, panel painting, stain -
Jan 1, 1450
Early Renaissance
Renaissance Art first emerged from Italy around 1450 and slowly moved to Northern Europe. Unlike in the middle ages where the art was about finding God and proving pre conceived ideas, the renaissance was about promoting learning and 'finding man' giving its French name which literally translates to rebirth. "The Renaissance gave birth to the modern era, in that it was in this era that human beings first began to think of themselves as individuals. In the early Middle Ages, people had been happy -
Jan 1, 1450
Renaissance
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Neo Classicism
Neo Classicism was a art style that emerged from Britain and France around 1750. Artists and architects wanted to create 'true style' that could be expressed across all areas of the visual arts. Its style was based upon classical designs from Greece and Rome. A major source of inspiration came from archaeological discoveries such as those made at Herculaneum and Pompeii. The characteristics of this art movement were vases, swags and festoons, classical/ human figures, real and/ or imaginary figu -
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century in Western Europe. It showed strong emotion, imagination, freedom within or from classical notions of art forms. It overturned previous social conventions but particularly the position of aristocracy. Romanticism was the group of related artistic, political, philosophical and social trends rising out of the late 18th century and early 19th century. -
Realism/ Naturalsim
Realism (or Naturalism) was a mid nineteenth century (starting around 1830 and ending around 1870) art movement and style where artists stopped main focal points of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. They painted the present instead of Roman stories like Neoclassicism and painted real life instead of the supernatural elements of Romanticism and painting truthfully without artificiality and avoiding artistic convention. Most pantings would have a moral or political message and most artists would pain -
Realsim
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Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists in 1870s and 1880s. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.
Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate d -
Post Impressionsim
The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expres -
Expressionsim
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Instead of expressing physical reality, expressionist artists sought only to express meaning, emotional experience by distorting subject perspective radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. -
Futurism
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth and violence and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city -
Fauvism
Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Fauvism as a movement lasted only as a few years, 1904- 1908, but as a style that started around 1900 it continued beyond 1910. -
Cubism
Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. By breaking objects and figures down into distinct areas or planes, the artists aimed to show different viewpoints at the same time and within the same space and so suggest their three dimensional form -
Cubism
Cubist style portrait drawing task -
Surrealsim
Surrealism is a cultural movement and art movement that was founded in 1924 by André Breton. Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility. The movement was begun primarily in Europe, centred in Paris, and attracted many of the members of the Dada community. Influenced by the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung, there are similarities between the Surrealist movement and the Symbolist movement of the late 19t -
Abstract Expressionsim
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s -
Abstract Expressionism
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Op Art
Practical task on Op art -
Pop/ Op Art
These art movement originated in 1950 but is still used in presetn day.
Op art also known as Optical art, are abstrct and usually in black and white. It is meant to give the view the feeling and illusionof movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping.
Pop art oriinated in Britain in the mid 1950's and then moved acrossed to America around the late 1950's. It is to challenge fine art by using popular culture like adverts, news ect. -
Brit Art
From 1988 to present day Brit art has been a contempory art movement created by artists such as Damien Hirst. YBA's (Young British Artists) was applied to a group of young british artists who exhibitted together in 1988 and used their shock tactics, materials and process and entrepreneurial attitude. -
Brit Art
Practical task "I've never broken a bone in my body"
