What Kind of Art Is It?
These are the keywords that you will need to know about the different types of art. Everyone will really be impressed if you sprinkle a few of these throughout a conversation...
Abstract Expressionism: Began late 1940's and 1950's as a way to express ones emotions rather than depicting actual objects. Dramatic colors with loose brushwork or none at all on large canvases.
Aestheticism: A late nineteenth century European art movement that held fast to the idea of "art for art's sake."
Art Deco: From 1920 through the 1930's a new style would appear... sleek, streamline, linear decorative designs that reflected the modern technology.
Art Nouveau: A style that began in the late 1800's and move into the early 1900's evoked flowing, sinuous lines. Floral & fauna, mermaids and women with long flowing hair, vines and birds. These are only a few of the periods examples.
Art and Crafts: This movement began in the late 1860's and continued through the 1900's as a rebellion against the poor craftsmanship and style in the decorative arts resulting from the mass production of the Industrial Revolution.
Ashcan School: In early 1908 a group of American painters and illustrators began painting common place urban scenes with undesirable elements gritty if you will, including the people that inhabited the streets, bars and back alleys of the U.S.
Automatism: In the early 1920's thru the 1940's a group of artists tried to let the subconscious guide their hands to paint, they tried to exert very little control over the painting hand.
Barbizon School: In the mid 1800s a group of painters who worked near the northern French village of Barbizon began by painting small humble landscapes, that later gave way to the impressionists.
Baroque: 1600 to about 1750 a European art style characterized by strong value contrasts, complex forms and objects that suggested action and drama.
Bauhaus School: In 1919 a school of art and design was founded in Germany with the goal of producing new architecture that combined artistic design as well as craftsmanship.
Biedermeir: In Germany during the early to mid 1800's this style was developed in art, interior design as well as furniture. It was meant to be comfortable common furnishings things that were easy to live with.
Blaue Reiter, Der (The Blue Rider): From 1911 to 1913 the second group of German expressionists came into being.
Bohemian School: About the fourteenth century the Emperor Charles IV (who later became King of Bohemia-Poland) promoted this style of art, he invited artists from France, Germany and Italy to live and work there. Under the beginnings of this group of "Bohemian Artists" great work was accomplished in book illumination and especially in carved painted altarpieces. Brucke, Die (The Bridge): Began in 1905 until about 1913 These were the first group of German Expressionists
Byzantine Style: From 330 through 1453 this period was known for its art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire. The Byzantine works dealt primarily with religious subjects and were extremely conservative. The most prominent architecture of the Byzantine period were the highly decorated mosaics in the domed churches.
Classical: Began in ancient Greece and Rome this art style was the epitome of symmetry, balance, order, unity, and dignity.
Conceptual Art: This became a reality in the beginning of 1960, actually it is referred to as art that may exist as only an idea and not in a dimensional state.
Constructivism: This style began in the early 1900s in Russia. It advocated the use of clean design and modern materials for use in abstract sculptures. The materials were various metals, wire and plastics.
Cubism: A style of painting that began in the early 1900s. Cubist paintings are all about showing the flat, two-dimensional picture surface. These paintings showed several sides of a severely fragmented object at once. Cubist painters rejected known painting techniques such as modelling, foreshortening and perspective.
Dada: This movement began in 1915 as an artistic, literary and political revolt against World War II.
Early Christian Art: This style began about the sixth century at the very beginning of Christianity. At the start it was greatly symbolic and almost always hidden in the catacombs. After 313 it was brought out into the open and gradually became more accepted.
Empire Style: A style that began about the time of Napoleon about 1795 thru 1830, from architecture, interior design, art and textiles everything became very ornate, with a classical Greek and Roman influence.
Expressionism: This movement began in the early 1900s. It was a move to free the artist from the minutia of subject matter and concentrating on more of the overall impact. It is the emotional impact that sets it apart from more literal art.
Fauvism: This style was relatively short lived from 1898 until 1908. It began with a group of painters the critics tagged "Les Fauves" the wild beasts, mainly because of the bold, bright colors and the exaggerated forms they used.
Futurism: From 1909 until 1914 this movement was centered around machines and motion, modern design and development. Traditional painting and sculpture was rejected.
Gothic Style: This style had its beginnings about 1100 through the middle 1400s from art, architecture and sculpture it became predominate in Europe and lasted until the Renaissance. The name was developed by a group of writers from the Renaissance that deemed the style as vulgar and garish and likened it to the Gothic Tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire.
Hellenistic Period: Beginning about the fourth century to the first century BC. During this period art was greatly influenced by different countries such as the Near East and Egypt. The art and sculpture was flooded with a great deal of emotion and realism.
Hudson River School: From 1825 until 1875 a small group of painters primarily painted the New York's famous Hudson River Valley. They painted highly realistic and romanticized pictures during a span of fifty years.
Impressionism: Began in the mid 1860s to the mid 1880s this was a painting style that was loose and flowing rather than the familiar hard edged detailed painting that had come before. The impressionists worked to create their style by painting outdoors and making use of the available light. They avoided using blacks and grays even in the shadowed areas.
Kinetic Art: This art style began in the early 1900s, mainly sculpture with moving parts. Alexander Calder is a prime example of this, especially his mobiles involving all the moving parts.
Luminism: Beginning in the third quarter of the 1800s this American style of painting brought the subtleties of light into landscapes etc. Luminist painters accurately portrayed the color and values in the skies and seas that showed the depth and volume.
Mannerism: Starting about 1520 thru 1600 this was a style that showed the human form in various intricate poses and settings that were exaggerated.
Minimalism: A 1960s style that represented imagery of any sort instead of more traditional paintings such as landscapes or portraits, etc. It was seen as an attempt to squash the social comment on history, politics and religion.
Nabis: Began in 1890 as an homage to Paul Gauguin, this was a small group of painters that were dedicated to the painting and color ideas of Gauguin, to them he was their painting prophet hence the name Nabis from the Hebrew navi meaning prophet. These painters were all very accomplished in their own right they were: Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Serusier and Edouard Vuillard.
Neoclassicism: From 1750 until 1830 this period of revival of the art of ancient Rome, Greece and the Renaissance was seen as a rebellion against the ostentatious art of the Baroque period.
Neo-Impressionism: In the late 1800s a French painter, George Seurat was the leader of this movement to systematize and analyze the use of color. Seurat mainly painted with small carefully placed dots of colors rather than dabs as used by the Impressionists.
Op Art: A unique style that began in the late 1950s thru the 1960s. Op artists used bold colors and geometric designs to create art that seem to move and vibrate, by using optical illusions to evoke a visual response.
Oriental Art: This style of art possesses the lifelong learning and practice in each simplistic brush stroke that is not found in western art. The stories are told with very little use of perspective or shading which is looked upon as flat art by Westerners.
Ottonian Art: From 950 until 1050 this European art form took its name from the German rulers all named Otto, who reigned shortly after the ruler Charlemagnes. It was a time of great turmoil and the Ottonian restored order and re-energized the art legacy that Charlemagne had begun.
Pointillism: The late 1800s gave birth to this technique of placing dots of pure color next to each other on the canvas rather than mixing them on the pallet. When viewed at a distance the colors visually merge and the results can be stunning.
Pop Art: This style of art emerged in the early 1950s and 60s. The theme was commonplace objects such as comic strips, hotdogs, hamburgers and of course soup cans made famous by Andy Warhol. Advertising on television helped to bring together this popular culture.
Post-Impressionism: From the mid 1880s to the early 1900s a group of Impressionist painters were tired of trying to paint before they lost their light and their colors became grayed out. They began to experiment with adding more substance in painting by using color, shape and mass.
Pre-Raphaelites: During a short time from 1848 to 1854 a group of painters from England in introduced a new way to paint nature in a more truer form than what was typically being done at that time. Their goal was to paint as the Italian Renaissance before Raphael.
Proto-Renaissance: The late 1200s to the early 1300s was the period that set the stage for the Renaissance.
Realism: Beginning in the mid 1800s painting the common man, ordinary and even ugly came into fashion as opposed to painting only upper crust stiff formal portraiture.
Regency Style: From 1811 until 1830 this style was inspired by ancient Greek and Roman fashions but also was influenced by the Chinese and Egyptian themes. The trend was toward rich decoration carving, marketry and wood veneers.
Regionalism: This style of art began during the great depression in America. It depicted the life and times during that era.
Renaissance: The birth of this period was in 1400 and lived until the early 1600s. Throughout Europe and especially in Italy, literature and the arts experienced a re-awakening that had been all but lost throughout the middle ages.
Rococo: For nearly 60 years from 1700 to 1760 elaborate ornamentation was featured throughout painting, architecture, sculpture and interior design.
Romanesque: From 1100 to 1150 this art style focused on churches and monasteries in Western Europe, their design techniques using heavy ornamentations and carvings with massive columns and vaulted ceilings.
Romanticism: In the late 1700s to the mid 1800s a movement began in the arts that leaned towards emotional, spontaneous and imaginative rather than the traditional.
Social Realism: Prevalent in America during a period from the 1920s through the 1940s. It refers to artists that paint the social happenings that surround them. The Ashcan artists have been labeled social realists.
Suprematism: For six years from 1913 until 1919 an art style emerged that favored flat geometric shapes and patterns that represented feelings rather than objects.
Surrealism: From the beginning of World War I until the end of World War II a change was taking place in the literature and the arts. A shift to join the conscious and the unconscious, the real and the unreal, an altered state.Paintings were for the first time depicting a dreamlike state, misplaced objects seemed very comfortable in their new surroundings. Salvador Dali was the master of this realm.
Symbolism: A ten year span from 1880 until 1890 this movement aimed at fantasy and imagination as opposed to traditional depiction of objects. Mystical or Occult themes were often used and symbols or methaphors suggested the subjects.
Synthetism: The 1880s gave way to a style of painting using two-dimensional flat patterns combined with areas of pure color separated by heavy outlines.
The Eight: The eight original artists who founded the Ashcan School in 1908
The Ten: From 1898 to about 1918 a group of ten American painters exhibited together in order to draw attention to their paintings. They exhibited their works from New York to Boston which was quite a feat for the time period.
Tenebrism: As early as 1600 this technique was used. To give a dramatic emphasis to a background a dark tonality was used, then the subject was lit so it seems with an illuminating ray of light. Rembrandt was a master at this, not to mention Vermeer.
Vorticism: From 1912 until 1915 this English version of Cubism was born. It was founded by Percy Wyndham Lewis a writer that dabbled in the painting of abstract art forms. Most of the Vorticsits paintings were about modern machinery and industry.
59 Kinds of Art, Movements and Schools.
After glancing at the definitions of art styles, did you begin to wonder how could there be so many. Where did they come from? Was I really asleep in Art History? I swear, I only closed my eyes for a second or two during the slides. I can�t believe no one has ever mention this to me before. Shocking, but true!
Basically your made to believe there is only a few styles of art... Abstract, Modern, Impressionism, Expressionism and lets not forget Renaissance. It�s easier for gallery owners to shape the market with a limited number of styles.
Well, now you know the whole truth. Never again will you be left out of an artsy fartsy conversation.
The entire point to the story is that we at LionsHead Gallery want you to be informed about art. The more you know the easier it makes our job as artists.
Our goal at LionsHead Gallery is to develop a bridge between collectors and artists so you don�t feel intimidated. To be able to share information about things such as: How and Where to hang a painting, and where the market trends are going etc.
Abstract Expressionism: Began late 1940's and 1950's as a way to express ones emotions rather than depicting actual objects. Dramatic colors with loose brushwork or none at all on large canvases.
Aestheticism: A late nineteenth century European art movement that held fast to the idea of "art for art's sake."
Art Deco: From 1920 through the 1930's a new style would appear... sleek, streamline, linear decorative designs that reflected the modern technology.
Art Nouveau: A style that began in the late 1800's and move into the early 1900's evoked flowing, sinuous lines. Floral & fauna, mermaids and women with long flowing hair, vines and birds. These are only a few of the periods examples.
Art and Crafts: This movement began in the late 1860's and continued through the 1900's as a rebellion against the poor craftsmanship and style in the decorative arts resulting from the mass production of the Industrial Revolution.
Ashcan School: In early 1908 a group of American painters and illustrators began painting common place urban scenes with undesirable elements gritty if you will, including the people that inhabited the streets, bars and back alleys of the U.S.
Automatism: In the early 1920's thru the 1940's a group of artists tried to let the subconscious guide their hands to paint, they tried to exert very little control over the painting hand.
Barbizon School: In the mid 1800s a group of painters who worked near the northern French village of Barbizon began by painting small humble landscapes, that later gave way to the impressionists.
Baroque: 1600 to about 1750 a European art style characterized by strong value contrasts, complex forms and objects that suggested action and drama.
Bauhaus School: In 1919 a school of art and design was founded in Germany with the goal of producing new architecture that combined artistic design as well as craftsmanship.
Biedermeir: In Germany during the early to mid 1800's this style was developed in art, interior design as well as furniture. It was meant to be comfortable common furnishings things that were easy to live with.
Blaue Reiter, Der (The Blue Rider): From 1911 to 1913 the second group of German expressionists came into being.
Bohemian School: About the fourteenth century the Emperor Charles IV (who later became King of Bohemia-Poland) promoted this style of art, he invited artists from France, Germany and Italy to live and work there. Under the beginnings of this group of "Bohemian Artists" great work was accomplished in book illumination and especially in carved painted altarpieces. Brucke, Die (The Bridge): Began in 1905 until about 1913 These were the first group of German Expressionists
Byzantine Style: From 330 through 1453 this period was known for its art and architecture of the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire. The Byzantine works dealt primarily with religious subjects and were extremely conservative. The most prominent architecture of the Byzantine period were the highly decorated mosaics in the domed churches.
Classical: Began in ancient Greece and Rome this art style was the epitome of symmetry, balance, order, unity, and dignity.
Conceptual Art: This became a reality in the beginning of 1960, actually it is referred to as art that may exist as only an idea and not in a dimensional state.
Constructivism: This style began in the early 1900s in Russia. It advocated the use of clean design and modern materials for use in abstract sculptures. The materials were various metals, wire and plastics.
Cubism: A style of painting that began in the early 1900s. Cubist paintings are all about showing the flat, two-dimensional picture surface. These paintings showed several sides of a severely fragmented object at once. Cubist painters rejected known painting techniques such as modelling, foreshortening and perspective.
Dada: This movement began in 1915 as an artistic, literary and political revolt against World War II.
Early Christian Art: This style began about the sixth century at the very beginning of Christianity. At the start it was greatly symbolic and almost always hidden in the catacombs. After 313 it was brought out into the open and gradually became more accepted.
Empire Style: A style that began about the time of Napoleon about 1795 thru 1830, from architecture, interior design, art and textiles everything became very ornate, with a classical Greek and Roman influence.
Expressionism: This movement began in the early 1900s. It was a move to free the artist from the minutia of subject matter and concentrating on more of the overall impact. It is the emotional impact that sets it apart from more literal art.
Fauvism: This style was relatively short lived from 1898 until 1908. It began with a group of painters the critics tagged "Les Fauves" the wild beasts, mainly because of the bold, bright colors and the exaggerated forms they used.
Futurism: From 1909 until 1914 this movement was centered around machines and motion, modern design and development. Traditional painting and sculpture was rejected.
Gothic Style: This style had its beginnings about 1100 through the middle 1400s from art, architecture and sculpture it became predominate in Europe and lasted until the Renaissance. The name was developed by a group of writers from the Renaissance that deemed the style as vulgar and garish and likened it to the Gothic Tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire.
Hellenistic Period: Beginning about the fourth century to the first century BC. During this period art was greatly influenced by different countries such as the Near East and Egypt. The art and sculpture was flooded with a great deal of emotion and realism.
Hudson River School: From 1825 until 1875 a small group of painters primarily painted the New York's famous Hudson River Valley. They painted highly realistic and romanticized pictures during a span of fifty years.
Impressionism: Began in the mid 1860s to the mid 1880s this was a painting style that was loose and flowing rather than the familiar hard edged detailed painting that had come before. The impressionists worked to create their style by painting outdoors and making use of the available light. They avoided using blacks and grays even in the shadowed areas.
Kinetic Art: This art style began in the early 1900s, mainly sculpture with moving parts. Alexander Calder is a prime example of this, especially his mobiles involving all the moving parts.
Luminism: Beginning in the third quarter of the 1800s this American style of painting brought the subtleties of light into landscapes etc. Luminist painters accurately portrayed the color and values in the skies and seas that showed the depth and volume.
Mannerism: Starting about 1520 thru 1600 this was a style that showed the human form in various intricate poses and settings that were exaggerated.
Minimalism: A 1960s style that represented imagery of any sort instead of more traditional paintings such as landscapes or portraits, etc. It was seen as an attempt to squash the social comment on history, politics and religion.
Nabis: Began in 1890 as an homage to Paul Gauguin, this was a small group of painters that were dedicated to the painting and color ideas of Gauguin, to them he was their painting prophet hence the name Nabis from the Hebrew navi meaning prophet. These painters were all very accomplished in their own right they were: Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul Serusier and Edouard Vuillard.
Neoclassicism: From 1750 until 1830 this period of revival of the art of ancient Rome, Greece and the Renaissance was seen as a rebellion against the ostentatious art of the Baroque period.
Neo-Impressionism: In the late 1800s a French painter, George Seurat was the leader of this movement to systematize and analyze the use of color. Seurat mainly painted with small carefully placed dots of colors rather than dabs as used by the Impressionists.
Op Art: A unique style that began in the late 1950s thru the 1960s. Op artists used bold colors and geometric designs to create art that seem to move and vibrate, by using optical illusions to evoke a visual response.
Oriental Art: This style of art possesses the lifelong learning and practice in each simplistic brush stroke that is not found in western art. The stories are told with very little use of perspective or shading which is looked upon as flat art by Westerners.
Ottonian Art: From 950 until 1050 this European art form took its name from the German rulers all named Otto, who reigned shortly after the ruler Charlemagnes. It was a time of great turmoil and the Ottonian restored order and re-energized the art legacy that Charlemagne had begun.
Pointillism: The late 1800s gave birth to this technique of placing dots of pure color next to each other on the canvas rather than mixing them on the pallet. When viewed at a distance the colors visually merge and the results can be stunning.
Pop Art: This style of art emerged in the early 1950s and 60s. The theme was commonplace objects such as comic strips, hotdogs, hamburgers and of course soup cans made famous by Andy Warhol. Advertising on television helped to bring together this popular culture.
Post-Impressionism: From the mid 1880s to the early 1900s a group of Impressionist painters were tired of trying to paint before they lost their light and their colors became grayed out. They began to experiment with adding more substance in painting by using color, shape and mass.
Pre-Raphaelites: During a short time from 1848 to 1854 a group of painters from England in introduced a new way to paint nature in a more truer form than what was typically being done at that time. Their goal was to paint as the Italian Renaissance before Raphael.
Proto-Renaissance: The late 1200s to the early 1300s was the period that set the stage for the Renaissance.
Realism: Beginning in the mid 1800s painting the common man, ordinary and even ugly came into fashion as opposed to painting only upper crust stiff formal portraiture.
Regency Style: From 1811 until 1830 this style was inspired by ancient Greek and Roman fashions but also was influenced by the Chinese and Egyptian themes. The trend was toward rich decoration carving, marketry and wood veneers.
Regionalism: This style of art began during the great depression in America. It depicted the life and times during that era.
Renaissance: The birth of this period was in 1400 and lived until the early 1600s. Throughout Europe and especially in Italy, literature and the arts experienced a re-awakening that had been all but lost throughout the middle ages.
Rococo: For nearly 60 years from 1700 to 1760 elaborate ornamentation was featured throughout painting, architecture, sculpture and interior design.
Romanesque: From 1100 to 1150 this art style focused on churches and monasteries in Western Europe, their design techniques using heavy ornamentations and carvings with massive columns and vaulted ceilings.
Romanticism: In the late 1700s to the mid 1800s a movement began in the arts that leaned towards emotional, spontaneous and imaginative rather than the traditional.
Social Realism: Prevalent in America during a period from the 1920s through the 1940s. It refers to artists that paint the social happenings that surround them. The Ashcan artists have been labeled social realists.
Suprematism: For six years from 1913 until 1919 an art style emerged that favored flat geometric shapes and patterns that represented feelings rather than objects.
Surrealism: From the beginning of World War I until the end of World War II a change was taking place in the literature and the arts. A shift to join the conscious and the unconscious, the real and the unreal, an altered state.Paintings were for the first time depicting a dreamlike state, misplaced objects seemed very comfortable in their new surroundings. Salvador Dali was the master of this realm.
Symbolism: A ten year span from 1880 until 1890 this movement aimed at fantasy and imagination as opposed to traditional depiction of objects. Mystical or Occult themes were often used and symbols or methaphors suggested the subjects.
Synthetism: The 1880s gave way to a style of painting using two-dimensional flat patterns combined with areas of pure color separated by heavy outlines.
The Eight: The eight original artists who founded the Ashcan School in 1908
The Ten: From 1898 to about 1918 a group of ten American painters exhibited together in order to draw attention to their paintings. They exhibited their works from New York to Boston which was quite a feat for the time period.
Tenebrism: As early as 1600 this technique was used. To give a dramatic emphasis to a background a dark tonality was used, then the subject was lit so it seems with an illuminating ray of light. Rembrandt was a master at this, not to mention Vermeer.
Vorticism: From 1912 until 1915 this English version of Cubism was born. It was founded by Percy Wyndham Lewis a writer that dabbled in the painting of abstract art forms. Most of the Vorticsits paintings were about modern machinery and industry.
59 Kinds of Art, Movements and Schools.
After glancing at the definitions of art styles, did you begin to wonder how could there be so many. Where did they come from? Was I really asleep in Art History? I swear, I only closed my eyes for a second or two during the slides. I can�t believe no one has ever mention this to me before. Shocking, but true!
Basically your made to believe there is only a few styles of art... Abstract, Modern, Impressionism, Expressionism and lets not forget Renaissance. It�s easier for gallery owners to shape the market with a limited number of styles.
Well, now you know the whole truth. Never again will you be left out of an artsy fartsy conversation.
The entire point to the story is that we at LionsHead Gallery want you to be informed about art. The more you know the easier it makes our job as artists.
Our goal at LionsHead Gallery is to develop a bridge between collectors and artists so you don�t feel intimidated. To be able to share information about things such as: How and Where to hang a painting, and where the market trends are going etc.
