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Abstract Expressionism
- characterized by large canvasses and strong color.
- their aim to make art that while abstract was also expressive or emotional in its effect.
- Abstract Expressionist artists wanted viewers to be free to experience and understand their
artwork on their own terms, their artwork often touched on big ideas they thought were
important—like life and death, spirituality, power, struggle, and a range of human emotions.

2. Optical Art
- uses optical illusion created in black and white.
- Op art is short for 'optical art'. The word optical is used to describe things that relate to how
we see.
- The Op art movement was driven by artists who were interested in investigating various
perceptual effects.
- Artists use shapes, colors and patterns in special ways to create images that look as if they
are moving or blurring. Op art started in the 1960s and the painting above is by Bridget Riley
who is one of the main op artists.

3. Pop Art
- uses images of popular culture, as opposed to elitism
- It started in Britain and the United States during the mid-to-late 1950's.
- The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery popular
mass culture, such as advertising comic books, and mundane cultural objects.
- Pop art is Widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract
expressionism, as well as an expansion of those ideas.

4. Post – minimalism
- artists use unprocessed materials.
- This art movement emerged in the late 1970s that employs a variety of arts such as body
art, process art, conceptual arts, and performance arts.
- Some Post-Minimal artists were interested in extending Minimalism's interest in anonymity
and in emptying artwork of the artist's personal expression. Instead of using industrial
materials and impersonal methods of fabrication to achieve this, they used other strategies.

5. Conceptual Art
- Conceptualism
- Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called installations, may be constructed by
anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.
- This method was fundamental to American artists Sol Lewitt's definition of Conceptual art,
one of the first to appear in print.
 - When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions
are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine
that makes the art.

6. Photorealism
- reproduce the image realistically as possible.
- One of the key concepts around Photorealism was its emphasis on technical precision.
Though this was predominantly a painting style, artists aimed to completely remove any
traces of their hand, so the end result looked entirely mechanical.
- Photorealism strove to create pictures that looked photographic.

7. Installation Art
- materials are configured to present message to viewer.
- Installation Art may engage many or all of the senses – touch, sound and smell – rather than
just the visual or optical sense.
- Installation Art also foregrounds experience and communication over the production of a
finished art object.
- Installation art aims to change a viewer’s perception of the space and environment in which
it is in. This art differs from other three-dimensional art mediums because it utilizes the
changing perspective of the viewer as they move.