Dada/ Dadaism
Dada was an art movement of the European Avant-age in the early 20 th century
with early centres in Zurich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret; New York Dada began
circa 1915 and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris, e.g. Lhooq by Marcel
Duchamp.
Lhooq by Marcel Duchamp
Cubism
Cubism is an early 20th centurt avant-grade art movement in which the uses of
shapes are used to create a picture that is painted or sculpted to make look flat.
The movement started in 1907 and ended in 1921, for eg. The Weeping Woman
by: Pablo Picasso.
The Weeping Woman By Pablo Picasso
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural art movment that started in 1917 an is best known for its
visual artworks and writings. Artists painted illogical scenes sometimes with
photographic percision creating strange creatures from everyday objects
allowing the unconcious to express itself. For eg. Persistence Of Time by
Salvador Dali.
Persistence Of Time By Salvador Dali
Classicism
The art movement Classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained. It
refers generally to a high regard for a classical period. It started from the
Renaissance to the 18th century. E.g. Narcissus and Cupid by Nicolas Poussin
Narcissus and Cupid by Nicolas Poussin
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism is a post-world war II art movement in American
painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specially
American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the
centre of the western art world. E.g. Free Form by
Jackson Pollock
Free Form by Jackson Pollock
Op Art
Op Art short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op
art works are abstract, with many better known pieces created in black and
white. Typically they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden
images, flashing and vibrating patterns or of swelling or warping, e.g. Bridget
Riley
Bridget Riley
Beaux Art
The Beaux Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts in Paris particularly from the 1830s the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the
principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporated Gothic and Renaissance elements
and used modern materials such as; iron and glass.
Realism
Realism is the representation of subject matters truthfully without avoiding
artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.
Neo- Impressionism
A predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886
and 1905, from last impressionist exhibition to the birth of fauvism. Neo-
Impressionism emerged as a reaction against impressionists’ concern for the
naturalistic deception of light and colour.
Sunday Afternoon on the island of La
Grande Jatte by: Georges Seurat
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist art movement, originating in Germany at the
beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from
a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to
evoke moods for ideas.
The Scream by Edvard Munch
Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th century art movement characterized by relatively small,
thin, yet, visible brush strokes, and open composition, emphasis of accurate
deception of light on its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of
movement as a crucial element of human
perception and experience, and unusual
visual angles.
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Rococo
Rococo is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art
and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gliding, white and
pastel colours and sculpted moulding to create surprise and the illusion of
motion and drama. It started from 1730s to 1750s.
The height of French flamboyancy
By Francais Boucher
Art Deco
Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in
France just before World War 1. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings,
furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, movie theatres, ocean liners and everyday
objects.
Constructivism
Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy the originated in
Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin. This was a rejection of the idea of
autonomous art. He wanted to construct art. The Constructivism had a great
effect on modern art movements of the 20th century.
Baroque
Baroque carries connotations of bizarre and absurd when used by its critics who
dismisses it as a decadent successor to the revered Renaissance movement.
Baroque art emerged in Rome, the artistic capital of Europe in the 17 th century.
Death of a virgin by caracaggio
