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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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges-Pierre
Seurat, 1884 – 1886. |
Neoimpressionism
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1890s
Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by the French
art critic Félix Fénéon in 1887 to characterise the art
movement led by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Fénéon's
term pointed to the roots of this recent development in
the visual arts in Impressionism, but offered at the same
time a fresh reading of artistic means like colour and line
based on the practice of Seurat and Signac.
Artists:
Georges-Pierre Seurat, Paul Signac, Henri Edmond Cross,
Charles Angrand.
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Mars and Venus, Johan Tobias Sergel |
Neoclassicism
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ca 1770 - ca 1840
Neoclassicism is the name given
to movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature,
theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western
classical art and culture, usually that of Ancient Greece
or Ancient Rome. These movements were dominant at various
times between the 18th and 20th centuries.
Artists:
Jean Auguste Ingres, Jaques-Louis David, Antonio Canova,
Bertel Thorvaldsen, A.R. Mengs, Gavin Hamilton, Joseph-Marie
Vien, Johan Tobias Sergel. |
Op Art
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Op art or optical art is used to describe paintings
and other works of art which use optical illusions.
Op art works are abstract. When the viewer looks at them
the impression is given of movement, hidden images, vibration,
patterns, or of swelling or warping.
Artists:
Richard Allen, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Julio
Le Parc, Bridget Riley, Julian Stanczak, Jesús Rafael Soto,
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Pop Art
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1950s - 1960s
Pop art is a art movement that emerged
in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the
United States.
Pop art is one of the major art movements
of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques
drawn from popular mass culture as a reaction to the then
dominant ideas of abstract expressionism. Pop art aimed
to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture
in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any
given culture.
Pop art and minimalism are considered
to be the last modern art movements and precursors to postmodern
art.
Artists:
Sir Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield,
Jim Dine, Erró, William Eggleston, Marisol Escobar, Richard
Hamilton, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Allen
Jones, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, Claes Oldenburg,
Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist,
Ed Ruscha, George Segal, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Tom Wesselmann.
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