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Russian Art Movements

By Sedona Head
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    Byzantine Art

    Byzantine Art
    330-1453
    Mosaics, icons, and panel paintings frequently include hieratic depictions of Christian figures and symbols and make use of a flattened, elongated style.

  • Neoclassicism

    Neoclassicism
    1750-1850
    Looking back to the arts of Greece and Rome for ideal models and forms, Neoclassicism was a major art period that set the standard and redefined painting, sculpture, and architecture.

  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    1780-1830
    A nineteenth-century movement that celebrated the powers of emotion and intuition over rational analysis or classical ideals.

  • Naturalism

    Naturalism
    1820-1880
    A movement within painting where the human subject is depicted in natural habitats and social milieus, with an emphasis on visual accuracy.

  • Modern Photofraphy

    Modern Photofraphy
    1910-1960
    A range of approaches from Straight Photography, New Vision photography, Dada and Surrealist photography, and later abstract tendencies.

  • Rayonism

    Rayonism
    1911-1914
    An abstract style of painting developed by Russian artists Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. The term was derived from the use of dynamic rays of contrasting color that represented lines of reflected light.

  • Russian Futurism

    Russian Futurism
    1911-1916
    Artists reject past approaches and looked to Russian iconography, French Cubism, and the avant-garde of Europe for new directions for art-making.

  • Suprematism

    Suprematism
    1913-1920
    Using geometric shapes--as simple as a black square on a white ground or as complex as myriad bars, trapezoids, and circles arranged in space--Suprematism sought to convey the fundamental and transcendent properties of art.

  • Constructivism

    Constructivism
    1915-1930
    A movement that emerged in Revolutionary Russia among such artists as Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksander Rodchenko, Antoine Pevsner, and Naum Gabo. It emphasized space, construction, and industrial materials

  • Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism
    1922-1980s
    A style of realism that rose to prominence around 1917, after the political upheaval in Russia. This style glorified of Communism and its values through the depictions of powerful and just leaders, and hard-working, happy workers.

  • Body Art

    Body Art
    1961-1980
    Many Performance artists used their bodies as the subjects, and the objects of their art and thereby expressed their distinctive views in the newly liberated social, political, and sexual climate of the 1960s.