• Greek idealism • Balance • Perfect proportions • Human perfection • Technicality Classical Greek / Roman
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• Greek idealism• Balance• Perfect proportions• Human perfection• Technicality
ClassicalGreek / Roman
• Favored symbolism over realism
• Highly religious• Keen on production rather
than content• Lack of perspective
ByzantineChristian / Late Roman
• Rigorous religious conventions
• Expressive use of line, color and patterns
• Judged by richness of materials and skill
MedievalByzantine / Gothic
• Classical ideals of beauty and form
• Anatomical and scientific accuracy
• Sensual and psychologic response to color and composition
• Appreciation of classical content as theme
Renaissance
Mannerism
• Personal and idealized form of beauty
• Exaggerated physiques
• Contorted figures
Portrait of Laura BattiferriBronzino
Baroque
• Realistic subjects, spectacular action
• Powerful emotions• Asymmetric and
diagonal composition
• Chiaroscuro
David with the head of GoliathCaravaggio
Rococo
• Grandeur• Highly ornate• Pompous• Reaction to
Baroque, lighter, brighter, simpler themes
The progress of loveFragonard
Neoclassic
• Return to classics• Historical accuracy• Heroism, Virtue,
Patriotic themes as allegories to contemporary thought
Napoleon crossing the AlpsJacques Louis David
Romanticism
• Expression of emotion through motion and color
• Emotive sensual themes
• Imagination and individuality
• Beauty and power of nature instead of classical mythology
The Fighting TemeraireJMW Turner
Realism
• Focused on everyday reality
• Objective truth, reflection of social reality
• Visual reality
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1Whistler
Impressionism
• Colourful• Effects of colour and
light in nature• Captures the
atmosphere and weather
• Shadow isn’t dark• Worked outdoors
The White Water LilliesClaude Monet
Postimpressionism
• Emotional• Structural• Symbolic• Spiritual
• Rebelled against limitations in impressionism
Café Terrace at NightVincent Van Gogh
Expressionism
• Highly emotional• Highly spiritual• Distorted shapes• Exaggerated colors• Colors as a depiction
of feelings
• Deepening roots towards a self-consciousness
The Red Tower at HalleKirchner
Abstract Art
• Abstraction, semi or total.
• Deconstructs elements to its basics
• Uses visual elements to signify meaning
• Has several branches to follow:
Violin and PitcherBraque
Cubism
• Ignores tradition of perspective
• Shows several views at once
Ambroise VallardPablo Picasso
Futurism
• Favoured industrialisation, technology, transportation
• Noise, speed, energy of urban lifestyle
• The object moves around, not the artist.
The Rhythm of the ViolinistGiacomo Balla
Suprematism
• Purely geometric• Rejects
representational images
• Pure forms have greater power
SuprematismKazimir Malevich
De Styjl
• Harmony• Universal• Deeply spiritual
Composition with White and YellowPiet Mondrian
Dadaism
• Anti-art• Alive and not
corrupted to tradition• Pastiche• Against order
Tatlin at homeRaoul Hausman
Surrealism
• Positve response to dadaism
• Liberate imagination through subconscious
• Draw the “superior reality” the “su-reality”
• Images of dreams
Time TransfixedRené Magritte
Abstract Expressionism
• Spiritual• Automatism• Known as Action-
Painting
Full Fathom FiveJackson Pollock
Pop Art
• Brash• Colorful• Young• Fun• Hostile to the
establishment• Consumer culture
Cambell’s Soup 1 (Tomato)Andy Warhol
Op Art
• Optical• Abstract• Illusionistic• Illusion of movement
Gestalt 4Victor Vasarely
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