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Post-Impressionism is the term to describe the development of French art since the impressionists. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism by using vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brushstrokes and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color.
From the French word fauve, meaning "wild beast." A style adopted by artists associated with Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, who painted in a spontaneous manner, using bold colors.
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Photography is the process of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.
All sculpting styles are topics of discussion in this forum. This includes statues, busts, equestrian, fountain, kinetic, incised, low, and high-relief sculptures.
This style has a variety of archetypes that include: Cubism, Color Field Painting, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Futurism, and others. Discuss your favorites here!
Cubism is a proponent of abstract painting developed in the 1950s. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s, and is closely related to Abstract Expressionism. Color Field painting is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane with less or no emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action.
The term "post-painterly abstraction" is generally accepted as being: minimalism, hard-edge painting, lyrical abstraction and color field painting combined.
Abstract Expressionism is a movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values, surface qualities of paint, and the act of painting itself. Pollock, de Kooning, Motherwell, and Kline, are important abstract expressionists.
Futurism is an Italian movement rose to attention between the years 1909-19. It attempted to integrate the dynamism of the machine age into art.
Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. Science fiction is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically-established or scientifically-postulated laws of nature.
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience.
Anime refers to the animation style originated in Japan, characterized by distinctive characters and backgrounds (hand-drawn or computer-generated) that visually set it apart from other forms of animation. Manga is Japanese for "Comics" or "Whimsical images". Anime and manga share many characteristics, including: "exaggerated physical features such as large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs... and dramatically shaped speech bubbles, speed lines and onomatopoeic, exclamatory typography
Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century including the concepts of Mies van der Rohe.
Modern art is a term that refers to artworks produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. More recent artistic production is often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art.
