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MOVEMENT/
STYLES
Group 4
BAROQUE
IMPRESSIONISM
BAROQUE ● started around 1600 in Rome ,
Italy,
● Something that is elaborate and
highly detailed.
● considered to be linked closely
with the Catholic Church.
● The use of the chiaroscuro
technique is a well known.
● developed in France during the mid-
to-late 19th century.
● The paints were brighter due to the
invention of synthetic pigments.
● Impressionist painters used large
and visible strokes to help portray a
dreamy and abstract mood.
● The paint is applied in mosaic-like
patches which creates a rough
irregular surface texture.
IMPRESSIONISM
differences
BAROQUE IMPRESSIONISM
● characterized by exaggerated motion ● impressionist artists were not trying to
and clear detail used to produce paint a reflection of real life, but an
dramain sculpture, painting, 'impression' of what the person, light,
atmosphere, object or landscape looked like
architecture, literature, dance, and
to them.
music.
● Became innovative as structural steel freed
● Style of architecture, emphasis was up the limitations that allowed architects
placed on bold spaces , domes , and to go as high as they pleased
large masses.
SIMILARITIES
● Ordinary objects and people were used as subject matter.
● Still lifes were another popular subject matter shared between these two very
different styles.
SURREALISM
AND
REALISM
SURREALISM
● Illogical scenes with photographic precision, created
strange creatures from everyday objects, and
developed painting techniques that allowed the
unconscious to express itself
● The principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic
or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film,
or theater by means of unnatural or irrational
juxtapositions and combinations.
REALISM
● A cultural and intellectual movement, of the 19-th
century, that include some areas of social life as
art, politics, music, literature, science, moral etc
● Sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally
the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully,
without artificiality and avoiding speculative fiction and
supernatural elements
.
SIMILARITIES