Art Movements
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Art Movements Renaissance to Surrealism
Renaissance • BEGAN IN ITALY • Perspective • Accurate proportions • Lifelike detail • Shading • Light • Space
Baroque • BEGAN IN ITALY • Grandeur • Elegance • Strong or contrasting colors • Large Scale • Ornate Decorations • Strong Emotion • Dramatic Lighting
Neoclassicism • BEGAN IN FRANCE • Influenced by ancient classical art • Decorative • Elaborate • Sharp contours • Orderly • Themes included Ancient Greece & Rome
Romanticism • BEGAN IN FRANCE • Occurred simultaneously with Neoclassicism • More emotional and personal • Dramatic & exotic subjects • Loose free style of painting • Color flows from one form to the next • Has infinite depth
Realism • BEGAN IN FRANCE • Accurate depiction of the times • About the splendors and miseries of life • Ordinary people • Depict life objectively and imparitally • Earth tones
Impressionism • BEGAN IN FRANCE • Pleasures of the modern city • Impression of the moment • Light of a particular moment • Natrualistic and realistic
Post-Impressionism • BEGAN IN FRANCE • Color and form expressed in new ways • Appear flatter • No concern about the reflection of light • More solid forms • Thicker paint • Heavy expressive lines • Basic shapes
Expressionism • BEGAN IN GERMANY • Distortion and disjointed • Thick brushstrokes • Strong colors
Cubism • BEGAN IN SPAIN (Pablo Picasso) • Showing objects from multiple points of view simultaneously • Viewed nature as cylinders, cones and spheres
Dada • Rebel against everything • Anti-art
Surrealism • Paintings were the visualization of the dreams and thoughts • Revolt against intellectual art styles • Dream imagery