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| x Italian Renaissance |
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1420 | 1600 | Rainer Maria Latzke |
The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy around the end of the 13th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the...
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| x Cubism |
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1907 | 1921 | Paul Klee |
Cubism is a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In cubist artworks, objects...
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| Alexander Bogomazov | |||||
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| x Surrealism | 1920 | René Magritte |
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists...
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| Salvador Dalí | |||||
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| x Contemporary art |
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Stuart Semple |
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their...
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| Christiaan Tonnis | |||||
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| x Impressionism |
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1860 | Theodore Robinson |
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s in spite of harsh opposition from the art community in France. The...
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| Francisco Oller | |||||
| Frederick Carl Frieseke | |||||
| Frédéric Bazille | |||||
| Gustave Caillebotte | |||||
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| x Romanticism |
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1770 | 1850 | Eugène Delacroix |
Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840. Partly a...
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| Henric Trenk | |||||
| Constantin Daniel Rosenthal | |||||
| Ivan Aivazovsky | |||||
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema | |||||
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| x Baroque |
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1600 | Caravaggio |
The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style started...
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| Gian Lorenzo Bernini | |||||
| Peter Paul Rubens | |||||
| Artemisia Gentileschi | |||||
| Rex Whistler | |||||
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| x Postminimalism | Eva Hesse |
Postminimalism is an art term that refers to work that comes after minimalism in both a chronological and stylistic sense. Post-minimalist works take the logics and rationalities of minimalist work and disrupt them. So Eva Hesse's use of wonky grids...
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| Roni Horn | |||||
| Peter Young | |||||
| Ronnie Landfield | |||||
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| x Neoclassicism |
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Jacques-Louis David |
Neoclassicism (from Greek "neos"-νέος, Latin "classicus" and Greek "ismos"-ισμός) is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art...
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| Angelica Kauffmann | |||||
| Anselm Feuerbach | |||||
| Gheorghe Tattarescu | |||||
| Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | |||||
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| x Rococo |
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1730 | Jean-Antoine Watteau |
Rococo (less commonly roccoco; pronounced /rəˈkoʊkoʊ/, /roʊkəˈkoʊ/), also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior...
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| François Boucher | |||||
| Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun | |||||
| Francesco Zugno | |||||
| Jacopo Amigoni | |||||
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| x Expressionism |
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1912 | Edvard Munch |
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for...
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| Georges Rouault | |||||
| Gabriele Münter | |||||
| Max Pechstein | |||||
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| x Abstract expressionism | 1946 | Mark Rothko |
Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
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| Clyfford Still | |||||
| Jackson Pollock | |||||
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| x Neo-expressionism | Joe Boudreau |
Neo-expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s. Related to American Lyrical Abstraction of the 60s and 70s, Bay Area Figurative School of the 50s and 60s,...
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| Norris Embry | |||||
| Pierre Schwarz | |||||
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | |||||
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| x Modern expressionism |
Modern expressionism is an alternative term for Symbolism. Visual artists described as modern expressionist include the South African Gerard Sekoto, whose work in the 1940s drew on Fauvism and Post-Impressionism.
Modern expressionism is a form of...
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| x Fauvism |
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1905 | 1907 | André Derain |
Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values...
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| Henri Matisse | |||||
| Maurice de Vlaminck | |||||
| Georges Braque | |||||
| János Mattis-Teutsch | |||||
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| x Neo-Dadaism |
A widely used term covering several different art movements which came to puplic notice mostly in the 1960s. These include Pop art, Fluxus, 'Happenings' and Junk art, all of which share a renewed interest in the work of the original Dadaists....
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| x Postmodernism |
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Justin Michael Jenkins |
Postmodernism is a range of conceptual frameworks and ideologies that are defined in opposition to those commonly associated with ideologies of modernity and modernist notions of knowledge and science, such as formalism, materialism, metaphysics,...
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| Robert Rauschenberg | |||||
| Rafael Trelles | |||||
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| x Dada | 1916 | 1922 | Marcel Janco |
Dada ( /ˈdɑːdɑː/) or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. "Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a...
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| Tristan Tzara | |||||
| Marcel Duchamp | |||||
| Max Ernst | |||||
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| x Minimalism |
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Roni Horn |
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or...
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| Eva Hesse | |||||
| Sol LeWitt | |||||
| Donald Judd | |||||
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| x High Renaissance |
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1490 | 1527 | Giorgione |
In art history, High Renaissance, is the period denoting the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance. The High Renaissance period is traditionally taken to begin in the 1490s, with Leonardo's fresco of the Last Supper in Milan and the...
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| Raphael | |||||
| Donato Bramante | |||||
| Leonardo da Vinci | |||||
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| x Modernism |
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James Ensor |
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from...
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| Henri Matisse | |||||
| Harry Baron | |||||
| Beatriz Milhazes | |||||
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| x Symbolism |
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Edvard Munch |
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire...
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| Gustav Klimt | |||||
| Ignat Bednarik | |||||
| Ştefan Luchian | |||||
| Fernand Khnopff | |||||
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| x Pont-Aven School |
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Pont-Aven School (French: École de Pont-Aven) encompasses works of art influenced by Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term applied to works created in the artists' colony at Pont-Aven which started to emerge in the 1850s and lasted...
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| x German Renaissance |
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1450 | Lucas Cranach the Elder |
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which originated from the Italian Renaissance in Italy. This was a result of German...
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| Hans Dürer | |||||
| x Northern Renaissance |
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Ambrosius Holbein |
The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century the ideas spread around Europe. This influenced the...
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| Catarina van Hemessen | |||||
| Hans Holbein the Younger | |||||
| Veit Stoss | |||||
| x French Renaissance |
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1494 | 1610 | Germain Pilon |
French Renaissance is a recent term used to describe a cultural and artistic movement in France from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated...
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| Jean Goujon | |||||
| Jean Fouquet | |||||
| François Clouet | |||||
| Jean Clouet | |||||
| x Spanish Renaissance |
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1492 | Pedro Berruguete |
The Spanish Renaissance refers to a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. The year 1492 is commonly accepted as the beginning of the...
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| Alonso Berruguete | |||||
| Luis de Morales | |||||
| Juan de Flandes | |||||
| Alonso Sánchez Coello | |||||
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| x Mannerism |
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1520 | 1580 | El Greco |
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early...
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| Giovanni Antonio Lappoli | |||||
| Carel van Mander | |||||
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| x French art |
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French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France. Historical surveys of French art typically begin with Pre-Romanesque art, Romanesque art,...
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| x Cubo-Futurism |
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Lyubov Popova |
Cubo-Futurism was the main school of painting and sculpture practiced by the Russian Futurists.
When Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris in 1913 and exhibited his works in Moscow, the Russian Futurist painters adopted the forms of Cubism and...
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| x Metaphysical art | Filippo De Pisis |
Metaphysical art (Italian: Pittura metafisica), style of painting that flourished mainly between 1911 and 1920 in the works of the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began with Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp...
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| Giorgio Morandi | |||||
| Carlo Carrà | |||||
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| x Futurism |
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Carlo Carrà |
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects...
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| Alexander Bogomazov | |||||
| David Bomberg | |||||
| Mario Titi | |||||
| Giacomo Balla | |||||
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| x Outsider Art |
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Nek Chand |
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of...
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| Henry Darger | |||||
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| Howard Finster | |||||
| Doc Atomic | |||||
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| x Arts and Crafts movement |
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Henry Chapman Mercer |
Arts and Crafts was an international design movement that flourished between 1860 and 1910, especially in the second half of that period, continuing its influence until the 1930s. It was led by the artist and writer William Morris (1834–1896) and...
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| Edward Burne-Jones | |||||
| J. J. Lankes | |||||
| Arthur Frank Mathews | |||||
| Maxwell Armfield | |||||
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| x Situationist | 1957 | Constant Nieuwenhuys |
The Situationist International (SI) was an internationalist European revolutionary group with very restricted membership founded in 1957, and which reached its peak of influence in the general strike of May 1968 in France.
With their ideas rooted in...
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| x COBRA | Constant Nieuwenhuys |
COBRA (or CoBrA) was a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A).
COBRA was formed by Karel...
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| Karel Appel | |||||
| Lucebert | |||||
| Jan Nieuwenhuys | |||||
| Jan Cox | |||||
| x Installation art |
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Gottfried Helnwein |
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often...
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| Anastasia Klose | |||||
| Jessica Stockholder | |||||
| Carsten Höller | |||||
| x Metamorphism |
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Octavio Ocampo |
Metamorphic Art is art where an image is created out of smaller images.
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| x Synthetic cubism |
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Pablo Picasso |
Synthetic Cubism was the second main branch of Cubism (the earlier being Analytic cubism) developed by Picasso, Braque, Juan Gris and others between 1912 and 1919. It was seen as the first time that collage had been made as a fine art work.
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| x Analytic cubism |
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1909 | Pablo Picasso |
Analytical Cubism is one of two major branches of the artistic movement of Cubism and was developed between 1909 and 1912. In contrast to Synthetic cubism, Analytic Cubists "analyzed" natural forms and reduced the forms into basic geometric parts on...
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| Georges Braque | |||||
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| x Sturm und Drang |
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Philip James de Loutherbourg |
Sturm und Drang (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʊnt ˈdʁaŋ], literally "Storm and Drive", "Storm and Urge", though conventionally translated as "Storm and Stress") is a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music taking place from the late...
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| Henry Fuseli | |||||
| Claude Joseph Vernet | |||||
| x Fluxus |
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Joseph Beuys |
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and...
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| Dieter Roth | |||||
| Wolf Vostell | |||||
| Ray Johnson | |||||
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| x Pop art |
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1950 | Andy Warhol |
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop...
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| Justin Michael Jenkins | |||||
| Pietro Psaier | |||||
| Ralf Metzenmacher | |||||
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| x Found art |
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The term found art—more commonly found object (French: objet trouvé) describes art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function. Pablo Picasso first...
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| x Art Deco |
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1920 | 1939 | Santiago Martinez Delgado |
Art deco (/ˌɑrt ˈdɛkoʊ/), or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s and into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including...
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| Romain de Tirtoff | |||||
| Tamara de Lempicka | |||||
| Rene Paul Chambellan | |||||
| Louis Lozowick | |||||
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| x Art Nouveau |
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Lascăr Vorel |
Art Nouveau (French pronunciation: [aʁ nuvo], Anglicised to /ˈɑːrt nuːˈvoʊ/) is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau"...
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| Leonardo Bistolfi | |||||
| Alfons Mucha | |||||
| Gustav Klimt | |||||
| Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | |||||
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| x Hellenistic Greece |
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In the context of ancient Greek art, architecture, and culture, Hellenistic Greece corresponds to the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC. This entry...
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| x Old Kingdom |
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The Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of...
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| x Neo-impressionism |
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Georges-Pierre Seurat |
Neo-impressionism was coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat’s greatest masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement...
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| Paul Signac | |||||
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| Albert Dubois-Pillet | |||||
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| x Geometric Style |
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901 B.C.E. | 801 B.C.E. |
Geometric art is a phase of Greek art, characterised largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages, circa 900 BC to 700 BC. Its centre was in Athens, and it was diffused amongst the trading...
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| x Neo-Dada |
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Robert Rauschenberg |
Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to audio and visual art that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork. It is the foundation of Fluxus, Pop Art and Nouveau réalisme. Neo-Dada is exemplified by its use of modern materials,...
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| Jasper Johns | |||||
| Ray Johnson | |||||
| John Chamberlain | |||||
| Jim Dine | |||||
| x Post-Impressionism |
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Paul Cézanne |
Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Post...
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| Vincent van Gogh | |||||
| Augustus John | |||||
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | |||||
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| x Conceptual art | Sol LeWitt |
Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone...
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| Matthieu Laurette | |||||
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| x Neo-conceptual art |
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Ilya Kabakov |
Neo-conceptual art describes art practices in the 1980s and particularly 1990s to date that derive from the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. These subsequent initiatives have included the Moscow Conceptualists, United States neo...
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| Peter Halley | |||||
| Blažej Baláž | |||||
| x Pointillism |
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1886 | Jerry Wilkerson |
Pointillism ( /ˈpwɛntɨlɪzəm/) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term...
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| Henry Villierme | |||||
| Georges-Pierre Seurat | |||||
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| x Systems art |
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Systems art is art influenced by cybernetics, and systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself.
Systems art emerged as part of the first wave of the conceptual art movement extended in...
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| x Synthetism |
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Émile Bernard |
Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The...
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| x De Stijl |
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1917 | 1931 | Piet Mondrian |
De Stijl (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈstɛɪl], (Dutch pronunciation: [dɛ ˈstiːl], English: /də ˈstaɪl/), Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used...
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| Theo van Doesburg | |||||
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| x Suprematism |
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1915 | Kazimir Malevich |
Suprematism (Russian: Супрематизм) was an art movement focused on fundamental geometric forms (in particular the square and circle) which formed in Russia in 1915-1916. It was founded by Kasimir Malevich.
Kasimir Malevich originated Suprematism when...
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