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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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Post-Modernist |
1980 |
1990 |
Late-twentieth-century artists challenged traditional notions of what art actually is with a variety of different works; they are always experimental and innovative. |
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Pop Art |
1955 |
1970 |
A movement of the 1950s inspired by advertising and consumer society. Artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton produced works reminiscent of comics and advertising. |
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Op Art |
1964 |
1970 |
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Modern Realist |
1960 |
1965 |
This late-twentieth century American and British movement was influenced by consumerism, often reproducing photograph-like techniques of everyday scenes in a glamorous way. |
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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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Surrealist |
1920 |
1940 |
Dadaists were disillusioned and reacted against the destruction of the First World War, creating absurd anti-art Surrealism developed from this in 1924, representing dreams and pure thought inspired by the writing of Freud. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Nabis |
1890 |
1900 |
Inspired by Gauguin’s use of color, this group of Parisian artists was active in the 1890s.They were unconcerned with depicting reality, preferring the emotional use of color and distortion. |
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Post-impressionist |
1880 |
1900 |
A late nineteenth-century reaction to Impressionism, this group explored a symbolic use of strong colors and form rather than concerning itself with naturalism. |
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Symbolist |
1860 |
1890 |
Interested in dreamscape and emotional, often exotic, scenes, this late-nineteenth-century movement war inspired by literature. The works often use color and line to suggest and evoke. |
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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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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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Romantic |
1790 |
1880 |
An American and European movement of the late eighteenth century. The works were idealized and emotional rather than intellectual, laying importance on individual experience and expression. |
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Realist |
1840 |
1880 |
Art that attempts to represent the world in an accurate or familiar way Everyday scenes are favored over idealized, historical, or mythological subjects. |
