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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Postmodernism
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Postmodernism is any of several movements that are reactions
against the philosophy and practices of modern art movements
and are typically marked by revival of traditional elements
and techniques.
Postmodernity is the derivative to refer
to non-art aspects of history that were influenced by the
new movement.
The term is closely linked with poststructuralism
(Jacques Derrida) and with modernism, in terms of a rejection
of its bourgeois and elitist culture.
Postmodernism is
characterized by the abandonment of strong divisions of
genre and "high" and "low" art.
Artists:
Jeff Koons, Cindy
Sherman, Georg Baseliz,
Gerhard Richter,
Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Francesco Clemente, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Jenny Holzer.
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The Sick Girl, Christian Krohg (Norway), 1881 |
Realism
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ca 1855 - ca 1880
Realism in the visual arts and
literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in
everyday life, without interpretation.
Realism also
refers to a mid-19th century cultural movement with its
roots in France, where it was a very popular art form around
the mid to late 1800s.
It came about with the introduction
of photography - a new visual source that created a desire
for people to produce things that look “objectively real”.
Realism was heavily against romanticism. Realism believed
in the ideology of objective reality and revolted against
exaggerated emotionalism. Truth and accuracy became the
aims of many Realists.
Artists:
Gustave Courbet,
Jean Francois Millet, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, John
Singer Sargent, JA MacNeil Whistler, Honore Daumier, Christian
Krohg.
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Black square, Kazimir Malevitj (Alt. Kazimir Malevich, Малевич,
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Suprematism
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Suprematism is an art movement focused on fundamental
geometric forms, squares and circles, which formed in Russia
in 1915-1916.
Artists:
Kazimir Malevitj, Alternative spelling: Kasimir
Malewitsch, (german), Kazimir Malevich, (english), Kazimir
Malevich (french), Малевич, Казимир (russian)
Olga Rozanova
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Surrealism
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Surrealism is an art movement that began in the mid-1920s
and committed to expressing the imagination as revealed
in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention.
Artists:
Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Oscar
Dominguez, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Man Ray,
Eric Grate, Endre Nemes.
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Salomé, Gustave Moreau 1876 |
Symbolism
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ca 1880 - ca 1910
Symbolism was a reaction against
Naturalism and Realism art movements.
The styles of the
Symbolist painters varied considerably. The erotic, death
and immorality were common interests for the Symbolists.
Artists:
Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Pierre
Puvis de Chavannes, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edward Munch, Arnold
Böcklin, Felicien Rops, Gustave Klimt.
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