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Abstract Expressionist |
1940 |
1955 |
An American movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Its most famous proponents were Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko. With roots in Surrealism, it attempted to break from Europe and tradition. |
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Ancient Art |
-3000 |
-331 |
Premodern art often favored drawing over color. Much surviving work was recently discovered in tombs, such as Egyptian frescoes, pottery and metalwork. |
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Art Nouveau |
1880 |
1914 |
A European and American applied art movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is characterized by sinuous lilacs and stylized natural forms. Famous artists include Gaudi, Mucha, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. |
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Baroque |
1600 |
1730 |
A style of art and architecture that flourished in Europe front the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. This highly ornamented style was concerned with balance and harmony of the work. |
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Bauhaus |
1919 |
1933 |
German school founded in 1919 to raise the profile crafts to that of the fine arts. It established a relationship between design and industry and influenced the teaching of art. |
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Bloomsbury Group |
1905 |
1915 |
Meeting in the Bloomsbury area of London in the early twentieth century this group of artists and writers was an intellectual elite reacting against the restrictions of Victorian Britain. |
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Byzantine |
400 |
1453 |
Religious art relating to the eastern Roman Empire established in the fourth century, characterized by massive domes, rounded arches, and mosaics. |
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Classical Art |
1750 |
1880 |
Relating to or in form of ancient Roman and Greek art and architecture, Primarily concerned with geometry and symmetry rather than individual expression. |
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Cubist |
1907 |
1914 |
An abstract form of art. developed in Europe in the l900s by Picasso and Braque. It abandoned realistic representation of perspective and subject and concentrated on solidity and volume. |
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Dutch Genre Painting |
1620 |
1680 |
A type of painting concerned with the realistic depiction of scenes from ordinary life, including family life, sports, street scenes, picnics, festivals, tavern, and brothel scenes. Important places and times are ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle Ages, and Italy in the early Renaissance and 15th Century.</p>
<p>The most illustrious national school of genre painting is that of the Netherlands in the 17th Century. Never before or since has the ordinary life of a nation been depicted so fully as was the Dutch life of this period, with works by the great Dutch masters, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Jan Vermeer, and the lesser Dutch genre painters, Gerard Ter Borch, Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Pieter de Hooch, Gerrit Dou, and Adriaen van Ostade. The genre style of painting has continued to be an important form to the present day.</p> |
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Early Medieval |
200 |
1400 |
A highly religious art from the period beginning in the fifth century in western Europe. Characterized by iconography and paintings illustrating scenes from the Bible. |
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Early Renaissance |
1400 |
1600 |
Beginning in the fourteenth century in Italy, this period attempted to emulate Classical art's concern with symmetry and naturalism, searching for the perfect form. |
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Expressionist |
1900 |
1920 |
Movement of the early twentieth centruy that concentrated on painting emotions instead of physical reality. Bright colors and strange forms are typical in such works. |
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Fauvist |
1900 |
1920 |
From the French for "wild beast," this early-twentieth-century style is characterized by strong colors and expressive brushwork which convey an emotional and fantastical depth. |
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Flemish Baroque |
1585 |
1702 |
Spain and Catholicism influenced seventeenth-century Flanders, producing works that focused on spirituality and play of light, yet were still sensuous and colorful. |
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Gothic Medieval |
1140 |
1500 |
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High Renaissance |
1400 |
1600 |
Developing from the early Renaissance in the fifteenth century, Italian artists such as Michelangelo and Titian were interested in perspective and the illusion of space. They created more realistic pictures than ever before. |
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Impressionist |
1870 |
1890 |
Named after Monet’s depiction of the effect of light on the French countryside in the 1860s, this group of artists was concerned with representing contemporary experience rather than historical events or the imagination. |
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International Gothic |
1300 |
1400 |
This amalgamation of northern European and Italian styles was fashionable in the late fourteenth century and is characterized by elegance and an interest in detail. |
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Mannerist |
1520 |
1600 |
A reaction against the harmony and order of sixteenth-century art, typified by elongated forms and dramatic movement. |
