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Graffiti 

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Description

Graffiti is images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the form of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire

Dates that the style existed

The earliest forms of graffiti date back to 30,000 BCE in the form of prehistoric cave paintings

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Pompeii graffito 

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Figurative Art

Nude study, 1896,
by figurative art advocate Kenyon Cox.

Description

Figurative art represents the human figure, or even an animal figure.

Figurative art is the term given to all art that is representational of figures, animals, and other natural or man-made objects. It is an art style which is strongly connected to the rules of perspective, proportion, anatomy and volume. Life drawing with a nude model is regarded an important foundation to figurative art.

Dates that the style existed

realism was seen in Classical sculpture by 480 B.C

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Kenyon Cox

Nicholas Poussin

Realism

Description

Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet, 1854. 

Realist painting by Gustave Courbet.

Realism refers to the general attempt to depict subjects. 

Realists render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in a life like manner. Realists tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and classical forms of art in favor of commonplace themes. 

Dates that the style existed

Began in France in the 1850s.

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Gustave Courbet

John Singer Sargent

Folk Art 

"Gran calavera eléctrica" by José Guadalupe Posada,
Mexico, 1900-1913

Description

Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and, in many cases, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" or "fine art" to the society's art patrons.

Dates that the style existed

18th and 19th century 

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Lok Virsa

José Guadalupe Posada

Cubism

Juan Gris, Portrait of Picasso, 1912,
 oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago

Description

Cubism was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. The first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism

Dates that the style existed

Highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France.

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Pablo Picasso 

Georges Braque

Dada

Hannah Höch, CEpoch in Germany, 1919,
collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm,
Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

Description

Dada involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, and graphic design. Concentrated its anti-war politics in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature.

Dates that the style existed

Began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

 Tristan Tzara

Hannah Höch

Colour Field

Kenneth Noland, Beginning, magna on
 canvas painting byHirshhorn Museum 
and Sculpture Garden, 1958.

Description

Type of abstract expressionism. Colour Field is characterised by large fields of flat, solid colour spread across or stained into the canvas, creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favour of an overall consistency of form and process.

Dates that the style existed

merged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Kenneth Noland

Clyfford Still

Pop art

Richard Hamilton's collage Just What Is It That Makes
Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) 

Description

Pop art uses aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. 

D

ue to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. 

Dates that the style existed

emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Richard Hamilton

Andy Warhol

Magic realism

Description

Magic realism or magical realism is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction. 

magical elements are blended into a realistic atmosphere in order to access a deeper understanding of reality.

Dates that the style existed

While the term magical realism wasn't introduced until 1955, magic realism was first used in 1925

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement

Gottfried Helnwein

Andrey Rogach

Will Cottonwww.willcotton.com

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs(1965)

Conceptual Art 

Description

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and materials.

Dates that the style existed

Conceptual art emerged as a movement during the 1960s

Two artists famous for being apart of the movement 

Marcel Duchamp

Lawrence Weiner

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www.writing-world.com/sf/realism.shtml