STA.

MONICA, MATTHEW
BSIT 21T4

ABSTRUCTIONISM
- The movement is marked by its use of brushstrokes and texture, the embracing of
chance and the frequently massive canvases, all employed to convey powerful emotions
through the glorification of the act of painting itself.
It was somehow meant to encompass not only the work of painters who filled their canvases
with fields of color and abstract forms, but also those who attacked their canvases with a
vigorous gestural expressionism. 

ART NOVEU
-Is a ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910
throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long,
sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior
design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.

BAROQUE
-The term Baroque, derived from the Portugese ‘barocco’ meaning ‘irregular pearl or
stone’, Baroque emphasizes dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, detail,
which is a far cry from Surrealism, to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur.

CONCEPTUAL ART
-Gives priority to an idea presented by visual means that are themselves secondary to
the idea. Conceptual art, while having no intrinsic financial value, can deliver a powerful
message, and thus has served as a vehicle for socio-political comment, as well as a broad
challenge to the tradition of a 'work of art' being a crafted unique object.

CONSTRUCTIOISM
-Is a branch of abstract art, rejecting the idea of “art for art’s sake” in favor of art as a
practice directed towards social purposes. The movement’s work was mostly geometric and
accurately composed, sometimes through mathematics and measuring tools.
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CUBISM
-Visual language with geometric planes challenged the conventions of representation in
different types of art, by reinventing traditional subjects such as nudes, landscapes, and still lifes
as increasingly fragmented compositions. 

EXPRESSIONISM
-Sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Conventions of expressionist style include distortion, exaggeration, fantasy, and vivid, jarring,
violent, or dynamic application of color in order to express the artist’s inner feelings or ideas.

FAUVISM
-Artists used pure, brilliant colour aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to
create a sense of an explosion on the canvas.The Fauves painted directly from nature, as
the Impressionists had before them, but Fauvist works were invested with a strong expressive
reaction to the subjects portrayed.

FUTURISM
Fairly unique among different types of art movements, it is an Italian development in
abstract art and literature, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, aiming to capture the
dynamism, speed and energy of the modern mechanical world.

MANNERISM
Compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be
characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic
elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand,
and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval. The composition is jammed by
clashing colors, which is unlike what we’ve seen in the balanced, natural, and dramatic colors of
the High Renaissance.
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MINIMALISM
It is a term used to describe paintings and sculpture that thrive on simplicity in both
content and form, and seek to remove any sign of personal expressivity. The aim of Minimalism
is to allow the viewer to experience the work more intensely without the distractions of
composition, theme and so on.

NEO CLASSICISM
It sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art. Neoclassic artists used
classical forms to express their ideas about courage, sacrifice, and love of country.

NEO IMPRESSIONISM
Neo-Impressionists renounced the spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured
and systematic painting technique grounded in science and the study of optics.

NEO PLASTICISM
refers to the austere, geometrical style of concrete art, type of abstract painting which
used only horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors.

OPTICAL ART
Op Art or Optical Art is the term used to describe paintings or sculptures which seem to
swell and vibrate through their use of optical effects. Op Art is a form of abstract art and is
closely connected to the Kinetic and Constructivist Art movements.

POP ART
Pop Art is a direct descendant of Dadaism in the way it mocks the established art world
by appropriating images from the street, the supermarket, the mass media, and presents it as
art in itself.
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BSIT 21T4

POST IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature in
terms of the fugitive effects of colour and light.
ROCOCO
It is characterized by lightness, elegance, and an exuberant use of curving natural forms
in ornamentation. 

ROMANTICISM
Romanticism was basically a reaction against Neoclassicism, it is a deeply-felt style
which is individualistic, beautiful, exotic, and emotionally wrought. Artists might work in both
styles at different times or even mix the styles, creating an intellectually Romantic work using a
Neoclassical visual style.

SURREALISM
Dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious
control of reason and convention. Surrealism inherited its anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada,
but was lighter in spirit than that movement. Like Dada, it was shaped by emerging theories on
our perception of reality, the most obvious influence being Freud’s model of the subconscious.