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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND HUMANITIES

ART APPRECIATION
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First Term AY 2020-2021
Course Code ART APP
Course Description Art Appreciation
Prerequisite RWS
Credits 3
Mode of Delivery Online
Week Number 8
Lesson Topic Exploring Historical and Philosophical Underpinnings of Art –
Art History
Micro learning At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:
Outcomes • classify the various art movements; present the history and
movements of art through time; and cite important
characteristics in an art work based on the era movement.
Assessment Measures
Hi, everyone! This is Enrique F. Taragua from the Department of
Communication and Humanities. In this lesson we will classify the
various art movements; present the history and movements of art
through time; and cite important characteristics in an art work based
on the era movement.

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common

philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific
period of time. Art movements were especially important in modern
art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new “avant
– garde”,a French word which means works that are experimental,
radical or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture or society (Karmel,
2003).

According to theories associated with modernism and the concept

of postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the
period of time corresponding to modern art. The period of time called
"modern art" is posited to have changed approximately halfway
through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally
called contemporary art. During the period of time corresponding to
"modern art" each consecutive movement was often considered a
new avant-garde. Also during the period of time referred to as
"modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat
grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the visual
arts (Jencks and Everdell, 1997).
Postmodernist theorists posit that the ideas of art movements are no
longer as applicable, or no longer as discernible, as the notion of art
movements had been before the postmodern era. The term refers to
tendencies in visual art, novel ideas and architecture, and
sometimes literature. In music it is more common to speak
about genres and styles instead (Desmond, 2011).
Now, there are top twenty-five (25) art movements and styles
throughout history according to magazine.artland.com, and these are:
1. Abstract expressionism, which encompasses a wide variety of

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 American 20th century art movements, depicting large abstract
painted canvasses;
2. Art Nouveau, a decorative style that flourished between 1890
and 1910 throughout Europe and the US;
3. Avant-garde, innovative or experimental concepts in the
realms of culture, politics and art;
4. Baroque, an art and architecture developed in Europe from the
early 17th to mid-18th century;
5. Classism, embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of
the different types of art from ancient Greece and Rome,
concentrating on traditional forms with a focus on elegance
and symmetry;
6. Conceptual art, arose during 1960s, emphasizing ideas and
theoretical practices rather than the creation of visual forms;
7. Constructivism, developed by the Russian avant-garde around
1915, 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;
8. Cubism, An artistic movement begun in 1907 by artists Pablo
Picasso and Georges Braque who developed a visual language
whose geometric planes challenged the conventions of
representation in different types of art;
9. Dada/Dadaism, An artistic and literary movement in art
formed during the First World War as a negative response to
the traditional social values and conventional artistic practices
of the different types of art at the time;
10. Expressionism, an international artistic movement in art,
architecture, literature, and performance that flourished
between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria,
that sought to express the meaning of emotional experience
rather than physical reality;
11. Fauvism, associated especially with Henri Matisse and André
Derain, whose works are characterized by strong, vibrant
color and bold brushstrokes over realistic or representational
qualities;
12. Futurism, 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.
13. Impressionism, associated especially with French artists such
as Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro
and Alfred Sisley, who attempted to accurately and objectively
record visual ‘impressions’ by using small, thin, visible
brushstrokes that coalesce to form a single scene and
emphasize movement and the changing qualities of light;
14. Installation art, movement in art, developed at the same time
as pop art in the late 1950s, which is characterized by large-
scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific
place or for a temporary period of time;
15. Land art/ Earth art, Land art, also known as Earth art,
Environmental art and Earthworks, is a simple art movement
 that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by works
made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into
earthworks or making structures in the landscape using
natural materials such as rocks or twigs;
16. Minimalism, art movements from the 1960s, and typified by
works composed of simple art, such as geometric shapes
devoid of representational content;
17. Neo-Impressionism, an avant-garde art movement that
flourished principally in France from 1886 to 1906, renounced
the spontaneity of Impressionism in favor of a measured and
systematic painting technique grounded in science and the
study of optics;
18. Neoclassicism, almost the opposite of pop art, drawing
inspiration from the classical art and culture of Ancient
Greece and Ancient Rome, which is not uncommon for art
movements;
19. Performance art, emerged in the 1960s to describe different
types of art that are created through actions performed by the
artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded,
spontaneous or scripted;
20. Pointillism, a technique of painting developed by French
painters Georges-Pierre Seurat and Paul Signac, it is
characterized by works made of countless tiny dots of pure
color applied in patterns to form an image;
21. Pop art, an art movement emerged in the 1950s, composed of
British and American artists who draw inspiration from
‘popular’ imagery and products from popular and commercial
culture, as opposed to ‘elitist’ fine art;
22. Post-Impressionism, a term coined in 1910 by the English art
critic and painter Roger Fry to describe the reaction against
the naturalistic depiction of light and color in different types of
art movements like Impressionism;
23. Rococo, a movement in art, particularly in architecture and
decorative art, that originated in France in the early 1700s,
Characteristically, it consists of elaborate ornamentation and
a light, sensuous style, including scroll work, foliage, and
animal forms;
24. Surrealism, founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924,
its main goal of Surrealism painting and Surrealism artworks
was to liberate thought, language, and human experience from
the oppressive boundaries of rationalism by championing the
irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary; and,
25. Suprematism, a relatively unknown member of the different
types of abstract art movements, outside of the art world, a
term coined by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich in 1915 to
describe an abstract style of painting that conforms to his
belief that art expressed in the simplest geometric forms and
dynamic compositions was superior to earlier forms of
representational art.

That’s all for this lesson. I am glad that you learned much from our
discussion on this topic. GOD bless everyone and keep safe always.