Art Movements

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was a movement that swept through the decorative arts and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Generating enthusiasts throughout Europe and beyond, the movement issued in a wide variety of styles, and, consequently, it is known by various names, such as the Glasgow Style. It has a natural movement too it with the forms of the nature but yet fairly man made because of all the symmetry in the work and there are also a lot of female subjects in the works. Some of the key artists in this movement is Gustav Klimt, Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo, Arthur Liberty and Alphonse Mucha.

Gustav Klimt

Abstract Expressionism

jAbstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. Although the term "abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regardingGerman Expressionism. In the United States, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Kandinsky

Expressionism

Expressionism is an artistic style in which the artist attempts to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. In a broader sense Expressionism is one of the main currents of art in the later 19th and the 20th centuries, and its qualities of highly subjective, personal, spontaneous self-expression are typical of a wide range of modern artists and art movements. The main artists for this movement are Georges Rouault, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Franz Marc, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall.

Oskar Kokoschka

Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. A notable characteristic of Modernism is self-consciousness, which often led to experiments with form, along with the use of techniques that drew attention to the processes and materials used in creating a painting, poem, building, etc. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism and makes use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody. Influential artists include Henry Moore, Frank Stella, Barbra Hepworth, David Smith, Henri Matisse

Hans Hofmann

Urban Art

Urban Art is a term which gained popularity in the late 20th century. It was used mainly by the art establishment to encompass art and artists who were originally involved in streetand graffiti art. The term achieved further endorsement when major auction houses such as Bonhams used it to categorise these types of prints. Artists associated with the Urban Art genre, include Keith Haring, Banksy, Dan Baldwin,D*Face and Pure Evil.

Banksy

Dada

Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism, which many thought had brought war about. Influenced by ideas and innovations from several early avant-gardes - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism. The key artists for this movement are Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Andre Breton

Man Ray

Surrealism

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. Surrealism inherited an anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada, and was shaped by emerging theories on our perception of reality, especially Sigmund Freud's model of the subconscious. Th main artists for this movement are Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst and Joan Miro

Salvador dali