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II. Comment on the following quotations:

1. The language of art is universal.

2. “Art is the signature of civilizations.”

3. Art holds up people's spirits in the tragic moments of their lives.

4. “Art is long and life is fleeting” (H. W Longfellow).

5. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home”. 

6. “A picture is a poem without words”.

Topic 73. Art Styles

Styles of Art

Art influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It includes music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. Works of art can tell stories or simply express an aesthetic truth or feeling.

Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that studies the rules and principles of art.

THE STYLE

ABOUT THE STYLE

THE ARTISTS

Abstract

This style developed in the mid-20th century. In their paintings abstract artists did not try to show people, animals, or places exactly as they appeared in the real world. They mainly used color and shape in their paintings to show emotions.

Sonia Delaunay

Jackson Pollock

Cubism

Cubism is modern art made up mostly of paintings. The paintings are not supposed to look real. The artists use geometric shapes in their paintings. Early cubists used mainly grey, brown, green and yellow colours. After 1914, Cubists started to use brighter colours.

Pablo Picasso

Marc Chagall

Georges Braque

Expressionism

Expressionist artists try to express certain feelings about something.

Marc Chagall

Wassily Kandinsky

Ludwig Kirchner

Fauvism

Fauvism was an art style that lasted only four years, beginning in 1905. The leader of this movement was Henri Matisse. The word Fauvism is French for "wild beasts". It got this name because the paintings had bright and unusual colours. The objects in the paintings were shown in a simple way, and the colours and patterns were bright and wild.

Henri Matisse

Impressionism

Impressionism was developed in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pieces of art were painted as if someone just took a quick look at the subject of the painting. The paintings were usually in bright colours and did not have a lot of detail. The paintings in this style were usually outdoor scenes like landscapes.

Claude Monet

Mary Cassatt

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Camille Pissaro

Pointillism

In Pointillism, the artist uses small dots or strokes of paint to make up the pictures. From far away, these dots mix together and form the picture.

Paul Seurat

Paul Signac

Pop Art

Pop art can be any every day item that is drawn in a brash and colorful way. Pop Art is short for Popular Art. It is inspired by comics, advertising, and popular entertainment.

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Claes Oldenberg

David Hockney

Postimpressionism

Postimpressionism began in the 19th century. It was mainly still life and landscapes. The postimpressionists liked to use lots of colors and shadows.

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Romanticism

A style of art popular in the early 19th century. Romantic artists produced exotic, emotional works that showed an idealized world and nostalgia for the past.

William Blake

Primitivism

Primitive Art looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very simply.

Paul Klee

Henri Matisse

Realism

Realism is a type of art that shows things exactly as they appear in life. It began in the 18th century. Most Realists were from France, but there were also some famous American painters who were Realists.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Gustave Courbet

Honore Daumier

Surrealism

Surrealist paintings were generally based on dreams. The paintings were filled with familiar objects which were painted to look strange or mysterious.

Salvador Dali

Henri Rousseau

Max Ernst