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Expressionism
Focused on representing emotional experiences rather than physical reality, often with bold colors and dynamic compositions.
Photorealism
Art movement that involves painting or drawing from a photograph to create an image that closely resembles a photograph in its accuracy and precision.
Dada
Anti-art movement that sought to challenge art conventions and perceptions, often through absurdity and irrationality.
YBAs (Young British Artists)
A group of visual artists who began exhibiting together in London in the late 1980s, known for shocking and often controversial works.
Impressionism
Focused on capturing the momentary effects of light, loose brushwork, plein air painting.
Installation Art
Creates immersive environments, often large and mixed-media, designed to exist in a specific space temporarily or permanently.
Performance Art
Art in which the actions by the artist are the final, actual piace, with the audience sometimes expected to engage with the performance.
De Stijl
Advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color; simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors.
Viennese Secession
Formed by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, focused on exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition.
Stuckism
Founded in 1999, it promotes figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art, aiming to return to a more personal and traditional expression in art.
Neo-Dada
Blurred the boundaries between art and life, employed found objects, and challenged the notion of what art could be.
Art Brut
Literally 'Raw Art', 'outsider art', works created outside the boundaries of official culture; art by the mentally ill, prisoners, and children.
Kinetic Art
Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect.
COBRA
A European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951, engaged in spontaneous and colorful works, often with primitive and mythic figures.
New Realism
French art movement in which artists used found objects and unconventional materials as a means of subverting traditional ideas of what art should be.
Post-Impressionism
Extended Impressionism while emphasizing on geometric forms, distorting form for expressive effect, and unnatural or arbitrary color.
Appropriation Art
Uses pre-existing objects or images with little transformation applied to them, intending to question the originality and authenticity in art.
Surrealism
Sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, through odd juxtapositions and dream-like scenes.
Abstract Expressionism
Highlighted spontaneous or subconscious creation, large-scale works, and expressive brushstrokes or mark-making.
Art Nouveau
Characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.
Bauhaus
Combined fine arts and crafts, aimed to create a total work of art in which all arts would eventually be brought together.
Land Art
Artform that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks or making structures with natural materials such as rocks or twigs.
Neo-expressionism
A style of late modernist or early-postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s, characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials.
Cubism
Emphasized flat, two-dimensional surfaces, fragmented objects into geometric forms, and multiple perspectives.
Conceptual Art
Emphasized the idea or concept behind the work over the traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
Pop Art
Challenged traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising and comic books.
Arte Povera
Italian movement that used everyday materials to challenge and disrupt the commercialization of art.
Arte Informale
European abstract painting in the 1940s and 1950s characterized by an instinctive and deeply human approach to abstraction.
Zero Group
Founded in the late 1950s, it aimed to transform and redefine art after World War II using materials like light, movement and space.
Street Art
Visual art created in public locations for public visibility, often with strong social or political messages, includes graffiti and murals.
Color Field Painting
Characterized by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
Suprematism
Focused on basic geometric forms and a limited range of colors, pioneered by Kazimir Malevich.
Transavanguardia
Italian art movement from the late 1970s to the 1980s, characterized by a return to figurative art and mythic iconography.
Abstract Art
Uses a visual language of shape, form, color, and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Futurism
Glorified themes of the modern age: technology, speed, violence, and the industrial city; often depicted dynamic motion and fluidity.
Fauvism
Characterized by strong colors and fierce brushwork, prioritized painterly qualities and color over representational values.
Minimalism
Focused on simplicity and objectivity, using geometric shapes and often monochromatic palettes.
Digital Art
Uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, including computer animation, 3D printing, and virtual art.
Op Art
Focused on creating optical illusions through abstract patterns and contrasting colors, often creating a sense of movement.
Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism)
Emerging in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, this movement has its roots in underground comic, punk music, and other subcultures, often with a sense of humor.
Constructivism
Artistic philosophy that originated in Russia, rejecting the idea of autonomous art in favor of art as a practice for social purposes.
Lyrical Abstraction
A style of abstract art which emerged in the 1960s and the 1970s, characterized by a focus on form, color, and the sensation of painting.
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