Style Lex fine art painting
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1936 USA - American Abstract Art - artist group Bolotowsky Gallatin Glarner Holtzman
Australia - ceremonial artwork produced by tribal cultures - art created from successors of native originals to Australia Green Tjunuarrayi Thom
1910 - 1950 term associated with non recognizable subjects - focused on colors and shapes - style of modern art based on archaic elements - related to non figurative art Delaunay Kandinsky Klee Marc
1931 - 1936 Paris - international association of artists featuring geometric color compositions - influenced by cercle et carre Arp Beothy Gleizes Gorky Heliou Herbin Kandinsky Kupka Lissitzky Mondrian Paalon Seligmann Valmier Vulliamy
1946 - 1960 USA - non objective art movement characterized by feelings and emotions - the accidental appearing of their works is supposed to be an unconscious approach to pure abstraction - subcategories are action painting with focus on the physical act of painting and color field painting exploring effects of pure colors - the french term is expressionnisme abstrait Baziotes De Kooning Francis Frankenthaler Gorky Gottlieb Guston Hoffman Kline Motherwell Newman Noland Pollock Reinhardt Rothko Still
1945 France - french expression for works with an emphasis on straight lines and geometric shapes Schoeffer Vasarely
1947 France - french term for works in opposition to abstraction geometric favoring pure and free expressions - influence to art informel, peinture gestuelle and tachism Atlan Bazaine Bryan De Stael Francis Hartung Le Moal Manessier Mathieu Poliakoff Riopelle Schneider Soulages Wols
since 1795 France - academic art institution in Paris
term associated to artwork under influence of academy teachers - established and traditional styles
18th century France - group of painters favoring conventional compositions - also called art pompier - compare academic art Amaury Baudry Bouguereau Cabanel Delaroche Flandrin Gerome Meissonier Papety Picot Winterhalter
1960 USA - term for unconventional artworks of brutal and cruel character - compare funk art Kienholz
1950 all kind of art presented as physical action - involving the public into the process of creation - practiced in fluxux, happening and neo dadaism Beuys Cage Christo Kaprow Vostell
1950 USA - art movement performing the physical act of painting as a spontaneous creation - form of abstract expressionism Baziotes De Kooning Guston Kline Motherwell Pollock Skill Tobey Tomlin
1890 Great Britain - movement considering beauty as the most important aspect - social or moral considerations should not influence an artwork - based on the french movement l'art pour l'art Beardsley Whistler
pursuit of pure beauty without any pedagogic ambitions - art for art's sake was the leitmotif based on the french term l'art pour l'art - this term was primarily used for protagonists in the second half of the 19th century
french term for poster - used for publicity in public areas already in the 15th century - important platform for many artists since lithography techniques appeared Cheret Grasset Lautrec Mucha Steinlen
ceremonial artwork produced by african tribal cultures - very influential to the cubism movement
shortcut for agitation and propaganda - employed in socialist oriented countries to manipulate political attitudes Tatlin
decorative presentation of a literal content suggesting a deep sense Allegri Bosch Botticelli Breughel Cole Courbet Dossi Duchamp Dyck Ensor Fiorentino Guardi Hicks Pesellino Reijlander Rubens Soldani St Andre Tiepolo Velasquez West
an indirect reference to someone or something presumed to be well known - historical events, celebrities, citations -
term for realistic hard edge style painting Wood
1930 USA - group of rural artists practicing antimodernist painting focusing on daily life scenes Benton Curry Wood
1930 - 1940 USA - term for artworks representing the american way of life during the great depression - devided into the rural american regionalism and the urban social realism Benton Burchfield Curry Evergood Hopper Lawrence Levine Shahn Soyer Wood
1960 conventional and traditional experiences are abandoned in favour of mental reflections about art - basis of conceptual art Beuys
distension of a motive which appears different depending on the angle of view Holbein
representation of male and female characteristics united in one body - androgenous figures are often used in mythology scenes
provocative style mocking conventional art forms - important element in the dadaism movement - compare underground Duchamp
usually the representation of animals in human form and behaviour - element in allegory and mythology scenes Audran Berain Decamps Landseer Watteau
element of decoration representing floral motifs in stylized form Pousette
1913 USA - modern art exhibition in New York - introduction of european art movements such as expressionism, cubism and abstract art
1910 - 1950 french term associated with non recognizable subjects - focused on colors and shapes - modern art style, based on archaic elements and surrealism influences - related to non figurative art Bille Bury Delahaut Delaunay Jacobsen Jorn Kandinsky Klee Kupka Larionov Malevitch Marc Mortensen Pedersen Picabia
1968 Great Britain - artist movement claiming aesthetic standards in opposition to the aesthetic movement focused on pure beauty Atkinson Baimbridge Baldwin Burn Harrison Hurrel Ramsden
spontaneous and unreflected artwork - characteristic for the expression of children - does not adhere to norms and tradition, profit or recognition - Corbaz Chaissac Chomo Crepin Lesage Tatin Woelfli
french term for artworks representing concrete figures - opposition to abstract art
philosophical leitmotif considering that the beauty of art should be independent of concerns that demands other disciplins - influenced symbolism and the aesthetic movement - the french term is l'art pour l'art
1965 french term for kinetic art - based on cybernetic art with more extensions such as light variations etc. Agam Le Parc Vasarely Schoeffer
1960 - 1980 french term for body art integrating the artist himself in a scenic action - based on conceptual art and performance art - compare tattooing, piercing, branding and scarification
1920 french term for cybernetic art - mobile artwork animated and controlled by electronic systems, mechanical or natural forces Beuys Cabanis Cage Calder Egarra Gabo Garault Goepfert Jeantet Kosuth Kramer Luther Mack Mathiaut Murani Nussberg Paik Pevsner Prins Olbrich Rickey Schoeffer Sheridan Takis Tinguely Uecker
french term for social and political engagement - significant in socialist realism and social realism Bratby Lawrence Levine Orozco Rivera Shawn
1960 feminist movement of anglophile sensualists favoring female symbolism in artworks Dallier Eliet
1951 France - art movement favoring extreme tendencies of non figurative art - psychedelic vehemence Assar Benrath Bryen Dubuffet Duvillier Fautrier Graziano Laubies Loubchansky Riopelle Wols 1945 art movement based on tachism, favoring free defined abstractions Dahmen Fautrier Hartung Mathieu Soulages Wols
1890 - 1910 french term for modern style - dynamic and decorative style in undulating lines, leaves, flowers and flaming elements favoring female curves - roots from romanticism and symbolism Beardsley Behrens Bernard Eckmann Endell Galle Gaudi Gaugin Guimard Hodler Klimt Lautrec Mackintosh Morris Mucha Munch Obrist Preisler Riemerschmidt Stuck Tiffany Toorop Velde
1960 - 1970 Italy - french term for arte povera - based on object art - employing simple raw materials in order to provoke a confrontation of forms and materia in a metaphorical sense Anselmo Boetti Fabro Kounellis Merz Pascali Penone Paolini Pistoletto Zorio
18th century France - allusion to personages wearing helmets - group of painters favoring conventional compositions - also called academisme - compare academic art Amaury Baudry Bouguereau Cabanel Delaroche Flandrin Gerome Meissonier Papety Picot Winterhalter
1960 french term for technology art using modern techniques such as luminous installations and video circuits Agam Raysse Takis
1950 french term for visual art - basis of optical art
1970 Italy - artist movement close to arte povera and conceptual art - mixture of different styles, flashy colors and figurative motives Clemente
1960 - 1970 Italy - based on object art - employing simple raw materials in order to provoke a confrontation of forms and materia in a metaphorical sense - italian for poor art - the french term is art pauvre - compare rhopography Anselmo Boetti Fabro Kounellis Merz Pascali Penone Paolini Pistoletto Zorio
1888 Great Britain - aesthetic movement in reaction against the mediocrity of industrial productions - close to the pre raphaelite brotherhood - influenced the art nouveau movement Ashbee Mackintosh Morris
1920 - 1930 term employed on the occasion of the Exposition des arts decoratifs 1925 in Paris - focusing on the rise of technology and commerce - an elegant style of cool sophistication and modern aesthetic - derived from various avantgarde styles such as cubism and the early art nouveau - favoring geometric shapes and intense colors Delorme Deneika Dupas Erte Frampton Guttuso Lempicka Lhote Meere Monvel Philipot Sironi Sheeler
1908 - 1913 USA - group of artists, who captured the everyday life in New York - close to the eight movement - influenced the american scene painting Bellows Davies Du Bois Glackens Henri Hopper Lawson Luks Maurer Prendergast Shinn Sloan
french term for fitting objects into artworks of three dimensional character - employed in new realism, combine painting and metamatic - artworks composed basically of flat elements, applied on flat surfaces are called collage Johns Rauschenberg Tinguely
1928 Germany - association of revolutionary artists - members of the the communist party - influenced the socialist realism Grundig Hassebrauk Hegenbarth Hoerle Lachnit Nagel Nerlinger Querner Richter Rudolph Sandberg Vogeler
552 - 645 Japan - Period
term for artworks representing events of the life of an artist including selfportraits
1924 artist movement favoring spontaneous painting, free of rational control Ernst Gorky Masson Matta Miro
french term for vanguard - practicing new ideas in opposition to established traditions
1569 - 1603 Japan - Period
term for a feast honoring the wine god Bacchus
1978 USA - New York movement in contradiction to the understanding of contemporary art and intellectualism - compare neo expressionism, Neue Wilde and transavanguardia Borofsky Brown Buckley Jenney Morley Salle Schnabel Sultan
17th century Italy - term for painters favoring coarse, picturesque scenes Both Bourdon Cerquozzi Dujardin Goubau Helmbreker Lingelbach Miel Reuter Sweerts Tassel Wijck
term for boring and predictable art productions - the german term is Kitsch - to compare with buckeye and calendar painting
french for comic strip - term for a series of drawings telling a story accompanied by captions - simplicity in execution and colors - to compare with cartoon
french term for artists presenting the Bretagne landscape in rude and dark shapes influenced by stylized realism Cottet Dauchez Menard Simon
1630 - 1720 - european movement in reaction against the mannerism dominating the late renaissance - decorative and ornamental style favoring more realistic and emotional aspects - supported from spirituality - Baccicia Bernini Boucher Bril Brugghen Carracci Caravaggio Castiglione Cortona Cuyp Dyck El Greco Elsheimer Ferrari Giordano Hals Helst Hobbema Ianfranco Jordaens Largilliere Lebrun Le Nain Liss Lorrain Murillo Poussin Pozzo Rembrandt Reni Ribera Rottmayr Rubens Ruisdael Silva Skreta Stozzi Teniers Thornhill Tiepolo Tour Velasquez Vermeer Veronese Vouet Vries Watteau Zurbaran
1860 - 1970 France - Group of artists occupying or frequenting the so called atelier shacks in Paris - contributions to cubism and orphism Braque Delaunay Derain Dongen Gargallo Gleizes Gris Herbin Laurencin Leger Modigliani Picabia Picasso Rousseau Villon Vlaminck
1919 - 1933 Germany - movement with accent on on industrial design and functionality uniting artists familiar to neo expressionism - connected to the Weimarer Schule, ancestor of the New Bauhaus movement in the USA Breuer Itten Feininger Kandinsky Klee Nagy Schlemmer Rohe
Belle epoche 1890 -1914 France - period of a vital lifestyle
1815 - 1845 Germany - style of arts and crafts based on bourgeois comfort favoring genres of sensitive conception Amerling Begas Blechen Gaertner Gensler Hasenclever Hess Kobell Krueger Oldach Richter Schroeter Schwind Spitzweg Stieler Waldmueller Wasmann
1959 - 1964 Germany - the Bitterfeld program - socialist idea of a national culture in the former German Democratic Republic - artists integrated in labor movements combined the tradition of socialist realism Penck Uhlig Weidensdorfer
1911 - 1914 Germany - german for blue rider - group of painters inspired from expressionism, demanding the emancipation of art - favoring spirituality and philosophical approaches - modern art leading into abstract art - the french term is cavalier bleu Campendonk Kandinsky Jawlensky Klee Kubin Macke Marc Muenter Werefkin
1925 Germany - artist alliance inspired from the Blauer Reiter movement Feininger Jawlensky Kandinsky Klee
1960 - 1980 art expression integrating the artist himself in a scenic action - based on conceptual art and performance art - compare branding, tattooing, piercing and scarification - the french term is art corporel Acconci Brus Burden Castelli Duchamp Fox Gilbert George Graham Horn Journiac Klein Luethi Manzoni Mendieta Mouraud Muehl Naumann Nitsch Oppenheim Pane Rainer Rinke Samaras Schwarzkogler
term for the lifestyle of avantgarde artists, especially from the romantic movement - in opposition to the bourgeoisie - synonym for rootless gypsies
form of body art, employing heated tools to mark the skin - the tradition goes back to practices from the middle ages
1880 - 1920 USA - term for the traditional illustrator era in times of high demand for graphic art products - compare golden age Abbey Parrish Pyle Schoonover Wyeth
term for artworks produced for the mass market, with sentimental character and of sloppy execution - to compare with calendar painting, kitsch and banal art Kinkade Ross
since 12th century art of the eastern roman empire influenced by the orthodox church - focused on frescoes, mosaics and icon painting
term for pleasing artworks without lasting values - to compare with banal art, kitsch and buckeye
term for artistically applied writing - important element in chinese and japanese artwork, as well as in islamic art
1911 - 1913 Great Britain - associated to post impressionism, capturing urban scenes of everyday life - precursor of the London group Gilman Ginner Gore Pissarro Sickert
italian term for artists influenced by the style of Caravaggio, favoring contrasting light effects - to compare with claire obscur painting La Tour Valentin
exaggerated representation of distinctive features to produce grotesque impressions Beerbohm Calman Carracci Cruikshank Cummings Daumier Doyle Fluck Furniss Garner Giles Gillray Goya Grosz Hamilton Heath Henri Hogarth Klemke Lancester Law Lear Low Maurier Philipon Rowlandson Searle Sharp Weisz
term for a drawing or a series of framed pictures telling a story - simplicity in execution and colors - to compare with comic strip Bushmiller Caniff Capp Foster Goldberg Kelly
monographic chronology, providing all of an artist's known works, including biographical information, exhibition dates, details about selected works, photographs, descriptions and examples of all the signatures the artist has used - compare retrospective
1911 - 1914 Germany - french term for the german artist movement Blauer Reiter Campendonk Kandinsky Jawlensky Klee Kubin Macke Marc Muenter Werefkin
1930 France - french for circle and square - abstract art movement Arp Kandinsky Leger Mondrian Pevsner Schwitters
french adjective applied for rural scenes - compare pastoral
italian for light and dark - term for contrasting light effects applied in flemish artworks from the 17th century - the french term is clair obscur
term for mexican american artwork, alternative to hispanic american art Raya
581 - 618 Sui 618 - 907 Tang 916 - 1125 Liao 960 - 1279 Song 1115 - 1234 Jin 1279 - 1368 Yuan 1368 - 1644 Ming 1644 - 1911 Qing
french term for decorative elements of chinese origin, applied as ornamental outfit in european artworks of the 17th and 18th century
french term for contrasting light effects applied in flemish artworks from the 17th century - the italian term is chiarocuro Caravaggio Rembrandt Vinci
french term for a fixed idea - an overused opinion with little meaning
1948 - 1951 Belgium - abbreviation for Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - group of avantgarde artists influenced from expressionism and surrealism - favoring abstract art forms based on art informel Alechinsky Appel Brands Corneille Dotremont Doucet Jacobsen Jorn Lucebert Nieuwenhuys Pedersen Rooskens
1960 USA - artwork exploring the effect of pure colors - form of abstract expressionism Frankenthaler Louis Noland Reinhardt Rothko Stella
french term for artworks composed of flat elements such as paper products - contemporary art techniqe introduced from cubism artists Bearden Berlant Braque Collins Ernst Fogarty Hausmann Matisse Picabia Picasso Schwitters Smith
1953 USA - term employed for assemblage techniques in connection with painting Johns Rauschenberg
term for a series of drawings telling a story accompanied by captions - simplicity in execution and colors - to compare with cartoon - the french term is bande dessinee
term for artworks serving for publicity and advertising
since 1950 term for artworks created with computer assistance - cyber art is a platform for computer artists
1967 USA - artwork asking for reflection rather than to the appearence - in the tradition of dadaism and anti art - close to performance art - compare environment art and installation art Atkinson Bainbridge Baldessari Baldwin Barry Beuys Bochner Buren Burn Darboven Dibbets Graham Haacke Huebler Hurrell Kawara Kosuth Krapow Merz Naumann Oppenheim Pilkinton Ramsden Rushton Sieglaub Weiner Witt
1917 Russia - modern art movement favoring the the use of modern materials and technologies in artworks - geometric shapes - compare Bauhaus und de Stijl Gabo Lissitzky Nagy Pevsner Rodtschenko Tatlin
term referring to the same period of time, usually to our present time
1960 - 1970 USA - term for a modern art conception, favoring a realistic style - influenced the photorealism Bailey Pearlstein Welliver
1970 France - group of painters favoring political aspects in artwork Cueco Fleury Latil Parre Tisserand Zeimert
4th - 8th century - christian art from Egypt
1980 France - artists using features of copy machines Aiwee Cabanis Durand Mathiaut Rouff
1938 - 1943 Italy - artist movement from Milan Guttoso Peverelli Treccani Valenti
18th century France - artist movement favoring romantic ruin landscapes Allemand Cassas Clerisseau Machy Robert
1907 - 1918 France - art movement inspired by african art and fauvism - the motive is analyzed and reassembled in abstract shapes - subdivided into cubisme cezannien, cubisme analytique and cubisme synthetique - influence to futurism, orphism, precisionism and purism Archipenko Braque Bruce Csaky Delaunay Duchamp Fauconnier Fresnaye Gernez Gleizes Gontcharova Gris Hayden Herbin Kandinsky Kupka Lam Laurens Leger Lempicka Lhote Lipschitz Livingston Marcoussis Marin Maurer Metzinger Miro Mondrian Murphy Picasso Reth Villon Weber
1909 - 1912 subcategory of cubism
1907 - 1909 subcategory of cubism
1912 France - avantgarde movement - abstract art, based on cubism, employing bright and contrasting colors - compare Blaue Reiter - also called synchronism and orphism Bruce Delaunay Duchamp Kandinsky Kupka Leger Macke Marc Picabia Russel Villon Wright
1912 - 1914 subcategory of cubism
1913 - 1930 USA - artist movement based on european cubism - also called precisionism Ault Crawford Demuth O'Keeffee Sheeler Spencer Stella
term for artworks presented in the internet
1920 mobile artwork animated and controlled by electronic systems, mechanical or natural forces the french term is art cybernetique Beuys Cabanis Cage Calder Egarra Gabo Garault Goepfert Jeantet Kosuth Kramer Luther Mack Mathiaut Murani Nussberg Paik Pevsner Prins Olbrich Rickey Schoeffer Sheridan Takis Tinguely Uecker
1916 - 1924 european art movement against tradition and conservatism with cynical attitudes employing absurdities to create artworks and performances - influenced the surrealism - to compare with anti art Arp Ball Duchamp Ernst Grosz Hausmann Hennings Heartfield Herzfeld Hoech Huelsenbeck Janco Man Ray Mehring Picabia Schwitters Taeuber Tzara
1839 France - first reliable procedure and technique to produce images on a light sensitive surface - compare photography
1948 Spain - group of artists in Barcelona Cuixart Ponc Tharrats
french term for the decline after periods of great cultural achievements - compare with degenerate art
general term for artworks of embellishing character - ornamental forms - art nouveau elements - compare arts and crafts, patternpainting
term for artworks of undesirable state, in strong contrast to classical styles - entartete Kunst had a special significance under the fascist regime in Germany - compare with decadence
1925 the conception and composition of a work, combining elements of art with functional requirements
1917 - 1931 Netherlands - artist group, favoring pure abstract art, reduced to geometric shapes and primary colors - influence on bauhaus - compare neo plasticism, constructivism and purism Diller Doesberg Mondrian Rietveld Vantongerloo
1905 - 1913 Germany - expressionism community, considered as a bridge toward the future - favoring new dimensions in strong colors and simplified shapes - revival of the woodcut tradition - Amiet Bleyl Dongen Gallen Heckel Kirchner Mueller Nolde Pechstein Schmidt Rottluf
1886 France - neo impressionism art style employing pure colors without any melange - based on color theories - compare pointilism and post impressionism
since 1955 Germany - contemporary art exhibition in Kassel
term for artworks presenting facts objectively without fictional attributes - compare conceptual art Haacke Kelly Kosuth
early 16th century Germany - art style practiced in the region of Regensburg Altdorfer Cranach Huber
1828 - 1850 Germany - school of Duesseldorf - movement against italian influences - the french term is Ecole de Duesseldorf Achenbach Hasenclever Heine Hildebrandt Huebner Lessing Sohn
1960 USA - wide ranging artist movement employing organic materials or natural phenomena for open air events - very close to environment art with influences of arte povera and process art Heizer De Maria Delvoye Goldsworthy Smithson Turrell
17th century Italy - french term for artwork inspired by the bolognese academy - initiated the classical baroque period Carracci
15th century France - french school Charonton Froment Martini
1850 France - group of landscape painters rejecting academic traditions in favor of a philosophical approach to realism - strong influence on the impressionism movement - compare pleinarisme Corot Daubigny Diaz Dupre Millet Pena Rousseau Troyon
1390 - 1420 french term for school of Burgundy - court artists practicing flemish realism - influenced the art style of the gothic era Van Eyck
1828 - 1850 Germany - Duesseldorfer Schule - french term for school of Duesseldorf - movement against italian influences Achenbach Hasenclever Heine Hildebrandt Huebner Lessing Sohn
15th century Italy - artist movement, favoring historical scenes and mythology elements Bellini Botticelli Cosimo Fra Angelico Fra Filippo Gentile Ghirlandaio Gozzoli Mantegna Masaccio Uccello Veneziano
1530 - 1589 France - 1st movement - artists practicing the mannerism style Abate Caron Clouet Cousin Fiorentino Primaticcio
1589 - 1610 France - 2nd movement - flemish and italien influences, favoring a decorative style Dubois Dubreuil Freminet
since 1600 Germany - artist movement Borcht Coninxloo Gillis Keuninck Liere Mander Marrel Mirou Molanus Schoubroek Stevens Vaillant Vonckboons Witte
1900 Hungary - art nouveau movement
1860 - 1880 France - association of artists from Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, USA and Scandinavia Beck Krogh Kroyer Larsson Nordstrom Pauli
since 1850 France - precursor of the impressionism movement Boudin Daubigny Huet Isabey Jonkind Monet
1434 - 1530 Japan - japanese art movement Eitoku Sanraku
1870 - 1890 Netherlands - artist group close to Ecole de Barbizon Bosboom Israels Maris
since 1900 Hungary - artist movement Fenyes Koszta Nagy Novak Rudnay Tornyai
since 1900 Belgium - movement influenced by symbolism and expressionism Berghe De Smet Permeke Saedeleer Servaes Woestijne
1840 France - mystic movement favoring religious subjects - inspired from the Nazareens - compare pre raphaelite Chevanard Janmot Orgel
1896 Hungary - artist movement Ferenczy Hollosy
1946 - 1960 USA - non objective art movement - compare abstract expressionism De Kooning Francis Kline Pollock Still Rothko Tobey
1925 - 1960 France - artist movement - general term for foreign artists, working in Paris Chagall Foujita Kisling Laurencin Modigliani Pascin Soutine
1886 France - group of artists favoring shapes and colors as basis support in painting Bernard Filiger Gaugin Laval Seguin Serusier Verkade
1866 Belgium - group of landscape painters based on realism Boulenger Dubois Coosemans
15th century France - artist movement Fouquet
16th century Italy - group of artists favoring the effects of light and color Bassano Canaletto Giorgione Guardi Tintorett Titian Veronese
1950 Austria - artist movement favoring decorative elements and phantasmagoric features - also called realisme phantastique - the german term is Wiener Schule Brauer Fuchs Hausner Hutter Leherb Lehmden Regschek
1919 - 1925 Germany - french term for Weimarer Schule - school, setting accents on industrial design and functionality, uniting artists familiar to neo expressionism - the movement is called Bauhaus and influenced the New Bauhaus style in the USA Breuer Itten Feininger Kandinsky Klee Nagy Schlemmer Rohe
15th century France - artist movement Maitre de Moulins
general term for french art movements - 17th century school Antoine Callot Champaigne Dumonstier Largilliere Lebrun Le Nain Le Sueur Lorrain Mignard Nanteuil Poussin Rigaud Tour Valentin Vouet
18th century school Aubin Boucher Chardin Fragonard Gollot Greuze Perronneau Prudhon Robert Tour Watteau
1850 France - artist movement favoring mediterranean subjects Courdouan Gresy Guigou Loubon Monticelli Olive Seyssaud Verdilhan
1900 Belgium - artist movement Delville Frederic Groux Khnopff Nuncques
1615 - 1868 Japan - Period Hiroshige Hokusai Kiitsu Korin Sansetsu
1956 Spain - artist group from Madrid Canogar Feito Millares Nieva Saura
1830 - 1848 France - artist movement Couture Delaroche Vernet
1924 Netherlands - abstract art movement based on geometric elements Doesburg
philosophical theory, considering experience as the only source of knowledge
1938 Germany - defamatory term employed in fascist Germany for modern art works of the 20th century - compare with degenerate art and decadence Barlach Beckmann Chagall Dix Heckel Hofer Kandinsky Kirchner Klee Kokoschka Marc Matisse Nolde Pechstein Picasso
term employed in theories about disordered artworks - the more you know about, the less entropy it seems to have
1960 - wide ranged term principally used for the installation or manipulation of large spaces - if not presented in enclosed spaces, earthwork can be considered as a subcategory - even artworks from the pop art movement, presenting environment subjects, are included - compare installation art and conceptual art Dine Kienholz Matta Oldenburg Samaras
1957 - 1962 Spain - analytic art movement inspired by old masters
1963 - 1981 Spain - figurative artist group with accents on pop art Solbes Valdes
1937 - 1939 Great Britain - artist movement based on naturalism Bell Coldstream Pasmore Rogers
1914 philosophical theory concerned with the being of individuals in a meaningless universe - of some influence to artist movements
1905 - 1940 european art movement favoring subjective impressions, employing strong colors and sharp contours - dominant in german movements Die Bruecke and Blauer Reiter - influenced by cubism, fauvism and symbolism Alechinsky Auberjonois Beckmann Berghe Campendonk Chagall Charley Ensor Gauguin Gen Paul Goerg Gogh Goya Gromaire Grosz Heckel Hodler Jawlensky Kandinsky Kirchner Kokoschka Kubin Lautrec Marc Modersohn Modigliani Mueller Munch Nauen Nolde Orozco Pascin Patelliere Pechstein Permeke Portinari Rivera Rohlfs Rouault Schiele Schmidt Rottluff Segal Shahn Siqueiros Sluyters Smet Soutine Tamayo Toorop
1946 - 1960 USA - french term for abstract expressionism - non objective art movement characterized by feelings and emotions - the accidental appearing of their works is supposed to be an unconscious approach to pure abstraction - subcategories are action painting with focus on the physical act of painting and color field painting exploring effects of pure colors Baziotes De Kooning Francis Frankenthaler Gorky Gottlieb Guston Hoffman Kline Motherwell Newman Noland Pollock Reinhardt Rothko Still
term for an artwork of misleading appearance
1930 - 1945 term for artwork presenting the superiority of the Aryan race - associated with the facist movement in Germany - in strong contrast to modern art - compare degenerated art and socialist realism
1950 Austria - artist movement favoring decorative elements and phantasmagoric features - also called Ecole de Vienna or Wiener Schule - the french term is realisme phantastique Brauer Fuchs Hausner Hutter Leherb Lehmden Regschek
1905 - 1907 France - artist movement based on impressionism with medieval and african art elements and leanings from expressionism - intense colors Bertram Braque Camoin Chabaud Derain Dongen Dufy Espagnat Friesz Kirchner Lebasque Lhote Manguin Marquet Matisse Puy Rouault Seyssaud Valtat Vlaminck
1905 - 1909 Belgium - movement inspired by french fauvism Dehoy Eeckhoudt Guillain Jefferys Maertens Oleffe Paerels Schirren
since 1974 France - Foire internationale d'art contemporain - contemporary art exhibition in Paris
term for representations of nudes with covered genitals - hypocrite facility to avoid pornography accusations - employed under religious influence - compare kamasutra
1982 France - french variation of conceptual art, inspired by graffiti and punk Basquiat Blanchard Boisrond Combas Crash Di Rosa Haring Scharf
1968 France - movement favoring figurative subjects, inspired by publicity and comic strips - compare narrative art Adami Aillaud Arroyo Bacon Bury Cremonini Cueco Erro Fromanger Giacometti Gudmunsson Jacquet Klasen Monory Rancillac Recalcati Telemaque Velickovic
1985 France - movement favoring figurative subjects, inspired by historical perspectives and mysticism Alberola Blais Garouste
term for artworks representing concrete figures - opposition to abstract art - the french term is art figurative
1890 France - french term for end of the century - connected with aestheticism and art nouveau
term for artworks representing meticulous expressions, fine materials and noble sentiments - synonym for social standing and educated taste
refers to the region between Belgium, Netherlands and France - schools in Antwerp, Bruges, Gent and Louvin 15th century Bouts David Goes Memling Weyden 16th century Bosch Breughel Matsys 17th century Dyck Rubens Teniers
1961 USA - art form targeting the performer as well as the audience Beuys Brecht Cage Ono Paik Vostell Vautier
work executed by artists with little or no formal training - traditional techniques - handed down through generations - opposed to fine art - compare naive art and outsider art Hicks Kane Lewis Moses Pippin
technique using distorsion to create an impression of three dimensional space
1920 - 1948 Russia - art movement, favoring forms and structures - compare aestheticism, structuralism and minimal art
1917 Poland - artist movement reacting against official art influences
term for all kinds of banal objects, which selected and exhibited by an artist becomes an artwork without being altered - readymade refers to manufactured objects - the french term is objet trouve - compare anti art Butterfield Chamberlain Kienholz Nevelson Schwitters
1925 USA - realism movement in New York Bishop Marsh Miller
1946 Italy - artist group influenced by cubism Birolli Cassinari Corpora Fazzini Franchia Guttoso Levy Morlotti Pizzinato Santomaso
1951 USA - wide ranging term for unconventional artworks of moldy character - compare acid art Arneson Berman Forest Hernn Hudson Mason Price Thek Voulkos Wiley
1909 - 1914 Italy - abstract art movement with influences from expressionism, dadaism and surrealism - featuring dynamic elements, characterizing the modern world of technique - compare vorticism Balla Boccioni Carra Duchamp Russolo Severini Stella
term for categories of artworks different from others in style and content - principally applied for everyday life scenes Brouver Hooch Vermeer
artworks presenting geometric shapes and forms, rather than organic elements
1980 Germany - artist movement exploring unconscious creativity sources - based on neo expressionism and symbolism - compare Neue Wilde Baseltitz Kiefer Kirkeby Lueperts Penck Salle Schnabel
1880 Scotland - group of artists insprired by the french naturalism movement Guthrie Henry Lavery McGregor Mackintosh
1880 - 1920 term applied for the european period of high demand in graphic art and the development of new reproduction techniques - connected with arts and crafts, art nouveau, Les Nabis and pre raphaelites Beardsley Crane Dulac Nielsen Rackham
1150 - 1450 style developed in the european middle ages - artwork of religious nature becoming more secular towards the renaissance era Bermejo Bosch Casentino Daddi Duerer Eyck Giotto Gruenewald Lorenzetti Martini Parlers Pisanello Pisano Pollaiuolo Riemenschneider Sluters Stoss Weyden
1974 USA - term for a drawing or inscription on a public surface - often illegal - compare street art and muralism A One Basquiat Chalfant Curr Haring Scharff Toxic
term for linear artwork covering drawings and engravings es well as print medias - employed for magazines, advertising and may others
1932 USA - group of american photographers Adams Cunninghan Weston
1913 Canada - group of landscape painters Carmichael Carr Casson Fitzgerald Harris Holgate Jackson Lismer McDonald Varley Thomson
1929 Sweden - group of artists based on surrealism Lorentson Olsson
1918 - 1933 Germany - artist group in Berlin under influence of the november revolution - the german term is Novembergruppe Arp Feininger Gropius Pechstein
1911 France - artist movement, based on cubism - also called section d'or Duchamp Gleizes Kupka Laurencin Leger Lhote Marcoussis Metzinger Picabia Villon
1869 - 1875 France - term for painters of the impressionism movement in Paris and the name of the cafe where they met
1952 Italy - abstract art movement Afro Birolli Corpora Moreni Morlotti Santomaso Turcato Vedova
1909 Hungary - artist movement based on expressionism and cubism Bereny Czigany Czobel Kernstock Marffy Orban Por Tihanyi
1952 Czechoslovakia - artist group influenced by expressionism and cubism Kubin Prochazka
1884 - 1894 Belgium - group of avantgarde artists Maus Verheyden
1952 Belgium - artist movement Bury Delahaut Vandenbranden
1945 France - artist movement Cadiou Ducordeau Franchi Gaillard Gilou Intini Le Prince Malice Perron Poirier Solnon Yvel
1957 Italy - artist movement criticizing the capitalism Gallizio Jorn Pipo
1969 France - artist movement Bioules Buraglio Buren Cane Devade Dezeuse Mosset Pamentier Pincemin Rouan Saytour Toroni Valensi Viallat
1924 Belgium - artist association based on surrealism in Brussels Chavee Colinet Lecomte Lefranc Magritte Mesens Nouget Simon Souris
1949 Germany - group of abstract art painters, based on japanese art elements Baumeister Bissier Denninhoff Winter
1957 - 1967 Germany - abstract art movement, close to nouvelle objectivite, favoring light structures - compare optical art Albers Macke Lassus Le Parc Mueller Piene Schoeffer Uecker
1960 - 1964 Italy - graphic art movement
645 - 710 Japan - Period
1952 USA - a variety of means for a spectacle - sometimes of chaotic qualities - large margins for creative actions - trying to establish a relation to the public - compare performance art, body art, conceptual art and environment art Beuys Brus Dine Grooms Kaprov Kazvo Lebel Nitsch Oldenburg Rauschenberg Saburo Schwarzkogler Tetsumi Vostell Voth Watts Vautier Whitman
1950 USA - term for abstract art painting with clear contours, separating colors and shapes Davis Kelly Martin Matisse Motherwell Newman Noland Reinhardt
1915 USA - afro american art community based on cultural traditions Beardon Biggers Fuller Johnson Jones Lawrence Motley Zee
794 - 1185 Japan - Period
1880 Australia - impressionism movement in Melbourne Roberts Steeton
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