Art movements is a style or genre in art with a specific philosophy and followed
by a group of artists during a specific period of time. Art movements were important
in the modernism period. Each movement was often considered as a new avant-garde
and against the period before.
The names of many art movements use the -ism suffix
and they are often referred to as "isms".
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Futurism
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Futurism was a 20th century art movement and was a mostly
an Italian and Russian art movement.
Many Italian Futurists
supported the rise of fascism in Italy. Marinetti
founded the Partito Politico Futurista (Futurist Political
Party) in early 1918, which a year later was absorbed into
Benito Mussolini's Fasci di combattimento, making Marinetti
one of the first supporters and members of the National
Fascist Party.
Artists:
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
Primo Conti, Gino Severini, Umberto Boccioni, Vladimir Mayakovsky,
David Burlyuk, Velimir Khlebnikov.
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Claude Monet - Impression, Soleil levant, 1872. |
Impressionism
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Impressionism was a 19th century art movement. The name
of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet
work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant 1872.
Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible
brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its
changing qualities.
The emergence of Impressionism in
the visual arts was soon followed by movements in other
media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist
literature.
Artists:
Mary Cassat, Paul Cézanne,
Edgar Degas, Eduard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pisarro,
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Frédéric
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Tete d` Otage nr 20, Jean Fautrier, 1944 |
Informel art, Art Informel, Tachisme
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Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism) derived from
the French word tache - stain, and was a French style of
abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s.
It is
often considered to be the European equivalent to abstract
expressionism. Other names for this movement are l'art informel
and abstraction lyrique.
The Cobra group artists are
also related to Tachisme and also Japan's Gutai group.
Tachisme was a reaction to cubism and is characterized
by spontaneous brushwork and drips and blobs of paint.
Artists:
Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Georges Mathieu,
Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Soulages, Henri Michaux, Wols,
Antoni Tapies,
Zao Wou-Ki.
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Vulcan surprises Venus and Mars, Jacopo Tintoretti, ca.
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Mannerism
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ca 1520 - ca 1620
Mannerism is a period of European
painting, sculpture, decorative arts and architecture.
The word derives from the Italian maniera (= style) which
corresponds to an artist's characteristic touch or recognizable
manner.
Artists:
Jacopo da Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino,
Guilio Romano, Parmigianino, El Greco, Bartholomeus Spranger,
Adrian de Vries, Angelo Bronzino.
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Minimalism
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1960s - 1970s
Minimalism is an art movement in various
forms of art and design, especially visual art, where the
work is stripped down to its most fundamental features.
As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with
developments in post-World War II Western Art, most strongly
with American visual arts.
Artists:
Dan Flavin,
Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Carl
Andre, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, Brice
Marden.
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