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I was looking forward to learning art movements during our lecture~ I thought it would be a new experience as i have never been exposed to field of art before.. All i knew about art last time were colours and drawings.. xD

Art movement is a tendency or style in art with specific common philosophy or goal.. There were 14 art movements introduced to us in class as follow:

1. Art deco
- an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials
- characterized by rich colors, bold geometric shapes, and lavish ornamentation

2. Abstract art
- visual language of form, colour, and line to create a composition
- may exist independently from other visual references in the world
- departs from accurate representation of art
- depicts imagery in art

3. Art nouveau
- an international philosophy as well as a style of art with the combination of architecture and applied art
- important transition between the historicism of Neoclassicism and modernism

4. Baroque
- uses exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail
- used to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music
- the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art was used as means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and
control by aristrocats

5. Bauhaus
- combine crafts and fine arts
- encompass both old and emerging technologies and bring a new approach to everything

6. Constructivism
- an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919
- a rejection of the idea of autonomous art, the movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes

7. Cubism
- representation of three-dimensional form
- objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form
- the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context

8. Dada
- was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I
- rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition
- concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works

9. Expressionism
- present the world solely from a subjective perspective
- distorting art radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas
- express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality

10. Futurism
- emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future
- include speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city

11. Impressionism
- characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition
- emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), common,
ordinary subject matter,
- inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles

12. Naive art

- often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique

- strong use of pattern, unrefined color on all the plans of the composition, without enfeeblement in the background

- an equal accuracy brought to details, including those of the background which should be shaded off 

 

13. Renaissance

- perceived as a "rebirth" of ancient traditions 

- took as its foundation the art of Classical antiquity, but transformed that tradition by the absorption of recent developments in the 

art of Northern Europe and by application of contemporary scientific knowledge

 

14. Surrealism

- feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur

- an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artefact

- developed out of the Dada activities during World War I