Art Styles Explained

Introduction: Styles of Art
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Lesson Objectives
a. A. Identify the types and Levels of reading comprehension;

b. B. Explain the value of reading in different contexts; and
c. C. Evaluate the types and levels of reading comprehension in
d. different setting.
Styles of Art
Styles of Art
a. Classical Art:
Styles of Art
a. Classical Art:
b. Classical Art adheres to artistic principles and rules laid

down by centuries of Master Artist Painters and
Sculptors all with the artistic lineage leading back to the
noble Greeks and Romans (time of Aristotle, Plato,
Alexander the Great) and their interpretation and
formal representation of the human form and the
environment in which it exists.
Styles of Art
a. Classical Art:
b. Classical Art adheres to artistic principles and rules laid

down by centuries of Master Artist Painters and
Sculptors all with the artistic lineage leading back to the
noble Greeks and Romans (time of Aristotle, Plato,
Alexander the Great) and their interpretation and
formal representation of the human form and the
environment in which it exists.
c. From our country’s perspective, we can say any art form

sed on ancient traditional rules/values is classical art.
Styles of Art Classical Art:
a. Following are some characteristics of classical art:

b. 1. Usually based on religious or mythical figures/stories.
c. 2. Idealism (heroic figures, figures look perfect)
d. 3. Bodies are active
e. 4. Nude
f. 5. Often emotionless
b. 6. Little or no perspective (ancient people have no idea of

how to create perspective; the idea of creating
perspective/depth comes around 1300AD)
c. 7. Harmony is an important concept.
d. 8. Order is more emphasized than beauty.
e. 9. The purpose of art is to show the importance of
God/Goddess/king.
Styles of Art Neoclassical Art:
Neoclassical art refers to the art that is produced later but

inspired by antiquity. The words Classical and neoclassical are often
used interchangeably.

The artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo (time of Italian

renaissance) is considered neo-classical since they drew inspiration
from classical works.

The artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo (time of Italian

renaissance) is considered neo-classical since they drew inspiration
from classical works.
Rules like the:

rule of thirds
Rules like the:

rule of thirds
golden ratio
Rules like the:

rule of thirds
golden ratio
three-act structures for drama
Rules like the:

rule of thirds
golden ratio
three-act structures for drama
unity of space, time, and place
for theater
Styles of Art Romanticism:
Romanticism: A movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth

centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art,
religion, and politics from the neoclassicism and formal orthodoxy of
the preceding period.
Romanticism: tends to see the individual at the center of all life,
and it places the individual, therefore, at the center of art.
Romanticism Characteristics:
1. 1. Liberalism and individualism

2. 2. Predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules
(classicism) and over the sense of fact or the actual (realism).
Romanticism Characteristics:
1. 1. Liberalism and individualism

2. 2. Predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules
(classicism) and over the sense of fact or the actual (realism).
3. 3. Emphasis on beauty over order (neoclassicism)
4. 4. Sensibility; love of nature; sympathetic interest in the past;
mysticism; individualism; unrestrained imagination; enthusiasm for
the uncivilized or "natural"; interest in human rights; sympathy
with animal life; sentimental melancholy; emotional psychology in
fiction.
Styles of Art Modernism:
1. Modernism: is marked by experimentation, particularly
manipulation of form, and by the realization that knowledge is
not absolute.
1. Modernism:
• It grows as a response to a lack of absolute
knowledge about ourselves.
• Modernism's stress on freedom of expression,
experimentation, radicalism, and Primitivism
disregards conventional expectations.
1. Modernism: is marked by
experimentation, particularly
manipulation of form, and by the
realization that knowledge is not
absolute.
1. Modernism: This movement starts around the first decade of
the 20th century.
• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

• Marx (communism/capitalism)
• Einstein (relativity)
the 20th century.

the 20th century.

the 20th century.

• Planck (quantum theory)

the 20th century.

• Planck (quantum theory),
• Nietzsche (will of power)
the 20th century.

• Planck (quantum theory),
• Nietzsche (will of power)
• Freud (Dream interpretation) created the
• identity and ideological crisis.
Characteristics of modernism:
1. Intentional distortion of shapes

2. Focus on form rather than meaning
3. Breaking down of limitation of space and time
4. Breakdown of social norms and cultural values
5. Dislocation of meaning and sense from its
normal context
1. Characteristic of modernism:
2. 6. Valorization of the despairing individual in

the face of an unmanageable future
3. 7. Disillusionment
4. 8. Rejection of history and the substitution
of a mythical past
5. 9. Need to reflect the complexity of
modern urban life
6. 10. Importance of the unconscious mind
1. Characteristic of modernism:
2. 11. Interest in the primitive and non-western

cultures
3. 12. Impossibility of an absolute interpretation
of reality
4. 13. Overwhelming technological changes
5. 14. No use of traditional meter, no regular
rhyme scheme in poetry.
6. 15. Rejection of rules of harmony and
composition in music.
7.
1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

1. Fauvism a group of early 20th-century
modern artists whose works emphasized
painterly qualities and strong color over the
representational or realistic values

1. Fauvism a group of early 20th-century
modern artists whose works emphasized
painterly qualities and strong color over the
representational or realistic values
Radical use of unnatural colors that

separated color from its usual
representational and realistic role, giving
new, emotional meaning to the colors.
Creating a strong, unified work that appears
flat on the canvas.

2. Cubism was a revolutionary new approach
to representing reality invented around
1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque.
2. Cubism
They brought different views of subjects
(usually objects or figures) together in the
same picture, resulting in paintings that
appear fragmented and abstracted.
2. Cubism
Objects are analyzed, broken up, and

reassembled in an abstracted/geometric/cube
form.
Instead of depicting objects from one

viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from
a multitude of viewpoints to represent the
subject in a greater context.
2. Cubism
Objects are analyzed, broken up, and

reassembled in an abstracted/geometric/cube
form.
Instead of depicting objects from one

viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from
a multitude of viewpoints to represent the
subject in a greater context.

3. Abstract painting
Representational art uses shape, form, color,

and line to create a composition that
resembles the real world.
Abstract art uses a visual language of shape,

form, color, and line to create a composition
that may exist with a degree of independence
from visual references in the world.

This departure from accurate representation

can be slight, partial, or complete. Total
abstraction bears no trace of any reference to
anything recognizable.
Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

4. Vorticism
Vorticism was a literary and artistic

movement that flourished in England in
1912–15. Founded by Wyndham Lewis, it
attempted to relate art to industrialization.

4. Vorticism Characteristics
Experimental art using angular simplification

and abstraction.
Incorporating the idea of motion and change.

Modernist Painting Sub-branches:
4. Vorticism Characteristics
Experimental art using angular

simplification and abstraction.
Incorporating the idea of motion and

change.
5.
Styles of Art Realism:
Realism sought to convey a truthful and

objective vision of life. This is part of the
reason for making the painting real to the
point that they look like photographs.
Realism
The artist doesn’t want to make anything
more than what it really is.
The goal of realism is to depict things as it is.
Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the

attempt to represent subject matter
truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding
artistic conventions, implausible, exotic, and
supernatural elements.
Realism
The artist doesn’t want to make anything
more than what it really is.
The goal of realism is to depict things as it is.
Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the

attempt to represent subject matter
truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding
artistic conventions, implausible, exotic, and
supernatural elements.
Comparison (Modernism and Romanticism
Styles of Art Impressionism:
Impressionism
started way back in the 19th century
(most prominent during the 1870s and
1880s) in Paris, France.
Impressionism
started way back in the 19th century
(most prominent during the 1870s and
1880s) in Paris, France.
The name of this movement comes from

the title of Claude Monet’s work
“Impression, Sunrise”.
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.
Impressionism
It is an objective rather than a
subjective form of art.
Impressionists use light and its changing

qualities, vibrant color, and lack of detail
as their tools.
Characteristics:
1. Short, thick strokes of paint are used to quickly

capture the essence of the subject, rather than its
details.
2. Colours are most vibrant; applied side-by-side
with as little mixing as possible. Synthetic colors are
used widely for the very first time.
3. Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing

complementary colors. In pure Impressionism, the use
of black paint is avoided.
Characteristics:
4. Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for

successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and
intermingling of color.
5. The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention
is paid to the reflection of colors from object to object.
6. Landscape painting is the most common art form. (not
studio painting) Impression, Sunrise (Claudio Monet)
Impressionism.
Styles of Art Expressionism:
Expressionism
Expressionism emerged during the late Nineteenth century

and moved into the early Twentieth. This movement was
most prominent from 1910 to 1925.
It is a movement in the arts in which the artist did not

depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression
of their inner experiences.
Expressionism
often uses dreams, symbolism, and violent distortion of
reality to depict the emotion. It is mainly a poetry
movement, later engulfs painting and other arts.
The difference between impressionism and

expressionism
Impressionism depicts what they saw without

involving their own moods and feelings.
Expressionism presents the world from the

viewpoint of the artist (subjective), violently
distorting it to obtain an emotional effect and to
transmit personal moods and ideas.
Styles of Art Surrealism:
Surrealism
was a cultural movement that developed in
Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which
artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and
developed techniques to allow the unconscious
mind to express itself.
Surrealism
Started around 1920 Reaction to the chaos of

WWI (logic, technology, science bring destruction
instead of advancement)
Influence of Freud: Dreams and subconscious

(based on the belief in the superior reality of the
dream)
Impossible scale Reversal of natural laws Double

images Juxtaposition Odd, Illogical, Irrational,
Exciting, Disturbing Techniques
Techniques:
1. Change the normal scale of objects (Ex: a car

the size of a living room or bugs the size of
people)
2. Turn the accepted order of things upside down

(Ex: dogs walking people instead of people walking
dogs)
Techniques:
3. Mix internal and external space (Ex: trees

growing in a kitchen, seeing the inside and outside
of an object at the same time)
4. Transform one object into another

(Ex: a car turning into a fish, an animal turning
into a person)
Styles of Art Dadaism:
Dadaism
is an artistic movement from the early
20th century, predating surrealism and
with its roots in a number of major
European artistic capitals.
Developed in response to the horrors of

WW1 the dada movement rejected reason,
rationality, and order of the emerging
capitalist society, instead favoring chaos,
nonsense, and anti-bourgeois sentiment.:
Dadaism
1. Started during 1st world war
2. Dada means ‘yes, yes’ in Russian and ‘there,

there’ in German and ‘Hobby Horse’ in
French(meaninglessness)
Dadaism
3. Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic'
of bourgeoisie capitalist society had led people
into war.
4. They expressed their rejection of that ideology
in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic
and embrace chaos and irrationality.
Dadaism
5. The idea is more important than the work
itself.
6. Art can be made of anything (readymade
object).
7. Shock, irony, readymade object, nihilism,
absurdity are important concept.
Styles of Art Postmodernism:
Postmodernism
In Western philosophy, a late 20th-century movement characterized by broad

skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute
sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic
power.
Postmodernism
1. Post-modernists believe that the majority of
the world bases its views on what is presented to
them through the media (Modernists believe that
people were capable of original thought).
2. Post-modernists believe that works of art are

open to many different interpretations
(Modernists believed that a work of art bears a
universal truth or meaning).
Postmodernism
3. Postmodern culture, is self-referentiality, irony,

pastiche, and parody.
4. Hyperreality (there is only surface meaning; there is

no longer any original thing for the sign to represent;
the sign is the meaning)
Postmodernism
5. Rejection of ‘grand or meta-narratives (like the

progress of history, economy, evolution).
The truth, therefore, needs to be ‘deconstructed’ so
that we can challenge dominant ideas that people claim
as truth.
Styles of Art Futurism:
Styles of Art Futurism:
Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) was an artistic

and social movement that originated in Italy in
the early 20th century.
It emphasized speed, technology, youth and

violence, and objects such as the car, the aero
plane and the industrial city.
Styles of Art Pluralism:
Pluralism
n an art context refers to the late 1960s and 1970s when art, politics, and
culture merged as artists began to believe in a more socially and politically
responsive form of art.
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Introduction: Styles of Art

a. A. Identify the types and Levels of reading comprehension;

b. Classical Art adheres to artistic principles and rules laid

b. Classical Art adheres to artistic principles and rules laid

c. From our country’s perspective, we can say any art form

a. Following are some characteristics of classical art:

b. 6. Little or no perspective (ancient people have no idea of

Neoclassical art refers to the art that is produced later but

Neoclassical art refers to the art that is produced later but

The artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo (time of Italian

Neoclassical art refers to the art that is produced later but

The artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo (time of Italian

Rules like the:

Rules like the:

Rules like the:

Rules like the:

Romanticism: A movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth

1. 1. Liberalism and individualism

1. 1. Liberalism and individualism

• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

1. Modernism: This movement starts around the first decade of

• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

• Writings of Darwin (evolution/creation)

1. Intentional distortion of shapes

2. 6. Valorization of the despairing individual in

2. 11. Interest in the primitive and non-western

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

Radical use of unnatural colors that

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

Objects are analyzed, broken up, and

Instead of depicting objects from one

Objects are analyzed, broken up, and

Instead of depicting objects from one

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

Representational art uses shape, form, color,

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape,

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

This departure from accurate representation

Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

Vorticism was a literary and artistic

1. Modernist Painting Sub-branches:

Experimental art using angular simplification

Incorporating the idea of motion and change.

Experimental art using angular

Incorporating the idea of motion and

Realism sought to convey a truthful and

Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the

Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the

The name of this movement comes from

Impressionists use light and its changing

1. Short, thick strokes of paint are used to quickly

3. Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing

4. Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for

Expressionism emerged during the late Nineteenth century

It is a movement in the arts in which the artist did not

The difference between impressionism and

Impressionism depicts what they saw without

Expressionism presents the world from the