academic art - Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting, sculpture, and

architecture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Academic art, or
academicism or academism, is a style of painting, sculpture, and architecture produced under the
influence of European academies of art.

Art Nouveau - a style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe
and the US from about 1890 until World War I and characterized by intricate linear designs and
flowing curves based on natural forms.

avant-garde - new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people
introducing them.

Expressionism - a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express
emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

Impressionism - a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized

by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the
shifting effect of light and color.

Neoclassicism - the revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or

music.

optical color mixture - Optical color mixing is a phenomenon that happens when a viewer
perceives color in an image as a result of two or more colors that are positioned next to, or
near each other. The perceived color is not actually on the surface

painterly - of a painting or its style is characterized by qualities of color, stroke, and texture rather
than of line.

pointillism - a technique of neo-impressionist painting using tiny dots of various pure colors,
which become blended in the viewer's eye. It was developed by Georges Seurat with the aim of
producing a greater degree of luminosity and brilliance of color.

Post-Impressionism - the work or style of a varied group of late 19th-century and early 20th-
century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted against the naturalism
of the impressionists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a
concern which led to the development of expressionism.

Realism (in art and literature) the movement or style of representing familiar things as they
actually are
Romanticism - a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century,
emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

Salon - an annual exhibition of the work of living artists held by the Royal Academy of Painting
and Sculpture in Paris, originally in the Salon d'Apollon in the Louvre in 1667.

Symbolism - an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect
suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It originated in late 19th
century France and Belgium, with important figures including Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Verlaine,
Rimbaud, and Redon.