Art History, Art Styles & Movements - Western Art

Read About Art Styles & Movements That Madesometimes termed 'proto-Baroque'. Although
European & Western Art Famous. Know AllBaroque was antiquated in many centers by the
Famous Art Styles from Renaissance to PostRococo style, beginning in France in the late 1720s,
Modern Art. Find how they are different from onemore than ever for interiors, paintings and the
to another. Very Important Article For Artdecorative arts, Baroque architecture remained a
History Students & Researchers.practical style until the arrival of ascetic
Art is always and everywhere the secretNeoclassicism in the later 18th century. Ingres,
confession, and at the same time the immortalCanova, and Jacques-Louis David are among the
movement of its time - Karl Marx Since ancientbest-known neoclassicists.
age to modern art we have come across multipleNeoclassicism was nothing but a reaction against
art styles & movements. Most of them wereboth the surviving Baroque and Rococo style, and
new creation or transformation of one or otheras a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of
styles. Efforts by individual, group or brotherhoodthe arts of Rome & Ancient Greek. Neoclassicism
and schools lined up multiple art style in art history.was also solitary representation of the American
This is my attempt to bring to light foremost &Renaissance movement. As Mannerism discarded
known art styles, movements and influence. IfClassicism, Romanticism too refused the ideas of
everything is not covered; its reference will bethe Enlightenment and the aesthetic of the
left for details.Neoclassicists. Romanticism movement turned
If it is topic of art history then the most coinedworld's attention toward landscape and nature as
term would be an art style that covers the periodwell as the human figure and the supremacy of
of European history at the close of the middlenatural order above mankind's will. Hudson River
ages and the rise of the modern world. An artSchool was highly influenced by Romanticism.
style which born in 14th century and lived up toHowever Neoclassicism sustained to be a
17th century. An art movement which was laterforemost vigor in Academic Art through the 19th
broken down in more than eight regional forms ofcentury and beyond. Academic Art was a
development by historians. That means "rebirth"relentless antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic
and was characterized by a radical development inrevival.
the arts, medicine, politics and sciences in Europe.In 19th Century, after impacts of industrialization -
That's none other than Renaissance!! That wasPoverty, squalor, and desperation were to be the
time in which individual expression and worldlyfortune of the new working class. Where
experience became two of the main themes.Romanticism was optimism towards mankind;
Renaissance is Italian origin and later it was knownsituation put art looking towards reality giving
as one of the most known European Artchance to Realism. Social Realism, Magic Realism,
Movements. By region - Renaissance wasPhoto Realism and Contemporary Realism are
identified by own regional movement in Italy,newer forms of Realism. Related movements
England, German, Northern Europe, French,were the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Arts
Netherlands, Poland and Spain. By period it isand Crafts Movement.
known as Early Renaissance, High Renaissance,Neo-classical movement rejected the extreme
Harlem Renaissance and Northern Renaissance.romanticism of Dada (that hunted the discovery
The word Renaissance is now often used toof authentic reality through the abolition of
describe other historical and cultural moments (e.g.traditional culture and aesthetic forms), in favor of
the Carolingian Renaissance, the Byzantinecontrol, religion and a dyed-in-the-wool political
Renaissances).programme. Dada ignored aesthetics. Dada
Leonardo da Vinci was the model Renaissancebecame an influential movement in modern art. It
man representing the humanistic values of thealso influenced Surrealism, Pop Art and Fluxus.
period in his art, science and writing. MichelangeloRealism's concept of seeing world by human eye
and Raphael were also vital figures in thisgave birth to Impressionism. Use of bright color
movement, producing works regarded forimproving more visibility (as opposed to Academic
centuries as embodying the classical notion ofart) and strokes that were mixed in viewer's
perfection. Renaissance architects included Alberti,eyes were key features of impressionism. The
Brunelleschi and Bramante.Group of Seven was strongly influenced by
Renaissance Classicism sowed two differentEuropean Impressionism of the late Nineteenth
movements- Mannerism and the Baroque.Century.
Mannerism was a reaction against the idealistFauvism & Post-Impressionism followed
perfection of Classicism. The appeal of BaroqueImpressionism. Later Fauvism; modern art started
style curved deliberately from the amusing andshaping self in multiple new forms including Cubism,
intellectual qualities of 16th century Mannerist artExpressionism, Abstract Art, Dada, Abstract
to an intuitive appeal aimed at the senses.Expressionism , Futurism, Naïve art, Op Art,
Baroque employed an iconography that wasSurrealism, Minimalism, Pop Art and other. Modern
direct, simple, obvious, and dramatic.art and its forms itself needs separate discussion.
Baroque art drew on certain broad and heroicAfter its transformation of several forms; painting
tendencies in Annibale Carracci and his circle, andis yet breathing in 'Contemporary Art' and 'Post
found inspiration in other artists such as Correggio,Modern Art'.
Caravaggio, and Federico Barocci nowadays