2008年7月29日星期二

dada art movement

Dada was a protest by a group of European artists against World War I, bourgeois society, and the conservativism of traditional thought. Its followers used absurdities and non sequiturs to create artworks and performances which defied any intellectual analysis. They also included random "found" objects in sculptures and installations.The founders included the French artist Jean Arp and the writers Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara. Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp were also key contributors.The Dada movement evolved into Surrealism in the 1920's.

2008年7月27日星期日

Cubism oil painting movement




Cubism was developed between about 1908 and 1912 in a collaboration between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Their main influences are said to have been Tribal Art (although Braque later disputed this) and the work of Paul Cezanne. The movement itself was not long-lived or widespread, but it began an immense creative explosion which resonated through all of 20th century art.The key concept underlying Cubism oil painting is that the essence of an object can only be captured by showing it from multiple points of view simultaneously.Cubism had run its course by the end of World War I, but among the movements directly influenced by it were Orphism, Precisionism, Futurism, Purism, Constructivism, and, to some degree, Expressionism.

2008年7月24日星期四

Victorian

Victorian Classicism was a British form of historical oil painting inspired by the art and architecture of Classical Greece and Rome.In the 19th century, an increasing number of Western Europeans made the "Grand Tour" to Mediterranean lands. There was a great popular interest in the region's lost civilizations and exotic cultures, and this interest fuelled the rise of Classicism in Britain, and Orientalism, which was mostly centered in continental Europe.The Classicists were closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, many artists being influenced by both styles to some degree. Both movements were highly romantic and were inspired by similar historical and mythological themes -- the key distinction being that the Classicists epitomized the rigid Academic standards of painting, while the Pre-Raphaelites were initially formed as a rebellion against those same standards.Frederick Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema were the leading Classicists, and in their lifetimes were considered by many to be the finest painters of their generation.

2008年7月23日星期三

Byzantine art


Byzantine art is the art of the Byzantine Empire, centered in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Byzantine art was completely focused on the needs of the Orthodox church, in the oil painting of icons and the decoration of churches with frescoes and mosaics.The Byzantine style basically ended with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, during the European Renaissance. However, its influence continued for a considerable time in Russia and elsewhere where the Orthodox church held sway.

2008年7月22日星期二

Bauhaus school

The Bauhaus School is a school of design founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Its signature modernist style, integrating Expressionist art with the fields of architecture and design, was enormously influential throughout the world.The school was later led by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Its faculty included such artists as Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers and Anni Albers.Other artists associated with the Bauhaus include Gunta Stolzl, Lux Feininger, Wilhelm Wagenfeld and George Grosz. The symbol oil paintings of Bauhaus is as below:Wassily Kandinsky oil painting reproduction
Wassily Kandinsky Akzent in Rosa oil painting
Wassily Kandinsky Aufleuchten
Wassily Kandinsky Black Lines
Wassily Kandinsky Blue oil painting reproduction
Wassily Kandinsky Cercle Jaune oil painting reproduction
Wassily Kandinsky Circles in Circle
Wassily Kandinsky Color Studies
Wassily Kandinsky Composizione VIII
Wassily Kandinsky Dame in Krinolinen
Wassily Kandinsky Diagonal
Wassily Kandinsky Farbstudie Quadrate
Wassily Kandinsky Grand Torre
Wassily Kandinsky Gravitation
Wassily Kandinsky Helles Bild
Ad Parnassum 1932 Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Arabian Song 1932 Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Bimba e Zia 1937 Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Blossoms in the Night,Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Castle and Sun Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Federpflanze 1919 Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Fig Tree Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Kleiner Hafen 1914 Paul Klee oil painting
L Arrivee du Marie 1933 Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Mazzaro Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Notte Egiziana Paul Klee oil painting reproduction
Paukenspieler 1940,Paul Klee oil painting reproduction

2008年7月21日星期一

Baroque oil painting


Baroque oil painting developed in Europe around 1600, as an reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism that dominated the Late Renaissance. Baroque art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerist art.This movement was encouraged by the Catholic Church, the most important patron of the arts at that time, being seen as a return to tradition and spirituality.One of the great periods of art history, Baroque Art was developed by Caravaggio,Gianlorenzo Bernini and Annibale Carracci, among others. This was also the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Velázquez.In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo art style.

2008年7月20日星期日

Art Nouveau movement


Art Nouveau oil painting is a form of elegant decorative art style characterized by intricate patterns of curving lines. Its origins somewhat rooted in the British Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris, Art Nouveau was popular across Europe and in the United States as well.Leading practitioners included Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt and the American glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany.Art Nouveau remained popular until around the time of World War I, and was ultimately replaced by the Art Deco style.

Art Deco Movement


Art Deco is an elegant style of decorative art, design and architecture which began as a Modernist reaction against the Art Nouveau style. It is characterized by the use of angular, symmetrical geometric forms. One of the classic Art Deco themes is that of 1930s-era skyscrapers such as New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building. The former, designed by architect William Van Alen, is considered to be one of the world's great Art Deco style buildings.The Art Deco look is related to the Precisionist art movement, which developed at about the same time.Well-known artists within the Art Deco movement included Tamara de Lempicka, fashion illustrator Erte, glass artist Rene Lalique and graphic designer Adolphe Mouron (known professionally Cassandre).

American Scene oil painting


American Scene oil Painting is a general term encompassing the mainstream realist and antimodernist style of painting popular in the United States during the Great Depression. A reaction against the European Modernism, it was seen as an attempt to define a uniquely American style of art.The American Scene basically consisted of two main schools, the rurally-oriented Regionalism, and the urban and political Social Realism.A few artists escaped being closely associated with either the Regionalist or Social Realist camps, including Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper.

Academic art oil painting




Academic Art is the oil painting and sculpture produced under the influence of the Academies in Europe and especially France, where many artists received their formal training. It is characterized by its highly polished style, its use of mythological or historical subject matter, and its moralistic tone. Neoclassical Art was also closely associated with the Academies.The term "Academic Art" is associated particularly with the French Academy and the 19th century salons at which art was submitted for display and prizes were awarded. Artists such as Jean-Leon Gerome and Bouguereau epitomize this style.

Abstract-expressionism oil painting movement


Abstract Expressionism is a art form in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color.

Its non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no actual objects represented.

Now considered to be the first American artistic movement of international importance, the term was originally used to describe the work of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky.The movement can be more or less divided into two groups: Action Painting, typified by artists such as Pollock, de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston, stressed the physical action involved in painting; Color Field Painting, practiced by Mark Rothko and Kenneth Noland, among others, was primarily concerned with exploring the effects of pure color on a canvas.