Art Movements (62)
Gregor Paulsson på Stockholmsutställningen 1930
Many countries have played a decisive role in the course of modernist design, the lead continously changing hands in a forward march from past to present to future.
The new brash art movements and styles erupting at the turn of the century became increasingly international in scope, enriched by the unique offerings of each nation. Sharing little commonality of purpose, they contributed to the progression of form and function in their own way depending on long-standing traditions, geo-politics, geography, language, natural resources, and the critical, yet often coincidental, availability of creative genius.
Andrew Wyeth-Christina's World, 1948
Contemporary Realism advocates a simple realistic painting style. The artists of the genre come from various backgrounds but are united in their choice to depict their subjects accurately, rather than conform to the more abstract movements popular in Modern art. Contemporary Realists choose subjects from daily life or that will have meaning to modern audiences. Artists involved in the movement include Neil Wellilver, William Bailey, and Philip Pearlstein.
Persephone, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Pre-Raphaelite painters in England were devoted to developing a more pure and direct depiction of nature. They aimed to emulate the Italian Renaissance artists before Raphael. Formed in 1948, they strived to rid the art world of the conventions enforced at the Academies. They derived their name from the traditional teaching that Raphael was closest to artistic perfection and should be emulated rather than drawing from nature itself. The movement was influential on the Arts and Crafts Movement, Symbolism, and the Classicists.
Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1939?42, Piet Mondrian. Oil on canvas; 72.5 x 69 cm. London, Tate Gallery.
Founded by Theo van Doesburg, Neo-Plasticism was a Dutch movement in painting and sculpture that strived to produce pure form and color, completely devoid of realism and the artist?s emotion. Also called De Stijl, another leading figure of the movement was Piet Mondrian who published the manifesto, Neo-Plasticism in 1920. In 1917, the magazine "The Style" was published as a realm to explain the artists? work and to discuss and spread new ideas of modern art.
The Neo-plastic style is characterized by a reversion to the basic fundamentals of art: color, form, level, and line. Artists used mostly straight horizontal and vertical lines and black, white, gray, and primary colors.
The Neo-Plasticism movement ended in 1931 when van Doesburg founded a new alliance called "Abstraction-Creation." The movement was very influential in the development of the Bauhaus and International Style.
Boy and Dog In A Johnnypump, 1982 (Cropped)Neo-Expressionism developed in the late 1970s as a reaction against Conceptual art and Minimalism. During the 1980s, it became the dominant style of avant-garde art primarily in the United States, Germany, and Italy. Although the Neo-Expressionists tended to draw their influence from many sources, the late aggressive paintings of Pablo Picasso were a major inspiration. It also is rooted in the German Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism movements of the earlier 20th century. The Neo-Expressionist movement was controversial in its quality and the way it was over-marketed to the art-buying world.
Neo-Expressionist paintings were characterized by a rough, violent approach and the return to more conventional formats such as easel paintings. Quite often, Neo-Expressionist works contained the human figure but also were sometimes abstract. Neo-Expressionist paintings were normally large and created quickly, occasionaly incorporating found objects. Other tenets of the movement included slashing brushstrokes, strong color contrasts, and distorted subject matter. Neo-Expressionist paintings were more concerned with displaying spontaneous emotion rather than traditional conventions.