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Art History
This is your portal to information about historical works of visual art, its artists, and their contributions to society and culture. Ask questions and find answers in the following areas: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Egyptian, Mesopotamia, Persian Agean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Celtic, Byzantine, Indian, Southest Asian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Islamic, Pre-Columbian, Inuit, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassiam, Romantic, Realism, Impressionism, Art Noveau, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Abstraction, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Pop.
3,044 Questions
Arts and Crafts Movement art nouveau what is the difference?
Superficially, Arts and Crafts is floral patterned wallpaper, Art Nouveau is posters of wimmen with flowers in their hair.
Arts and Crafts developed in England in the 1860s. Art Nouveau arose in the Belle Epoque of the 1890s in Paris, Munich (Jugendstil), and Wiener (Sezession). Art Nouveau is a rejection of the European Academic Style. They are both decorative, influenced by medieval, pre-Raphaelite, art and have a ton of vines going on, but one is primarily a decorative arts movement about *how* things are made (A&C), and the other is an art movement about *what* is made (AN). They can both be understood as reactions to the Industrial Revolution.
Who are the most famous abstract expressionist artists?
There are many different kinds of abstract painting, also different views as to what constitutes abstract art. Some experts are of the opinion that many of Claude Monets late paintings are abstract. A few of the trends in American painting after World War II are definitely abstract. E.g. the action painting by J Pollock, color field painting by M Louis or Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko. To mention but a few.
Who were famous painters in 1950?
Pablo Picasso was in the latter stage of his career in the 1950's. Nicolas de Stael, an artist who achieved fame and success within his own lifetime, was at the pinnacle of his career in the early 50s before he retired in 1953. Some other notable painters of the 1950s:
Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting, Color Field, etc.: Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko
Progressive Artists (India): Bal Chabda, Manishi Dey, Makul Dey, V.S. Gaitonde, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Akbat Padamese
Realism: Georgio Morandi, Andrew Wyeth
pre-Pop Art: Jasper Johns, Jr.
Figurative: Batlhus Klossowski, Jean Philippe Arthur Debuffet
Expressionism: Francis Bacon
Romanticism
Which word does not describe pop art relatable detached or nonrepresentationable?
Boring, plain, dull, expressionless, nonrepresentable.
There are many things that could be considered a characteristic of modernism. The shiny metal abstract art is considered a characteristic.
What is it called when you have four paintings?
a person with four paintings jeez. or if painted them then it is "Artist". WOW
How Was Art in Renaissance Times?
Renaissance art is credited for it's highly realistic linear perspective. The development of perspective was part of what lead to Realism. To that end, painters developed other techniques, studying light, shadow, and human anatomy. Underlying these changes in artistic method, was a renewed desire to depict the beauty of nature, and to unravel the axioms of aesthetics, with the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael representing artistic pinnacles that were to be much imitated by other artists.
What do we call a picture painted on a wall?
grafitti
Unless they invited you to do the painting and paid you for the work... then it's called a mural.
What is true of realistic art?
Just about everything is true about realistic art. It's simple superficially but it can be deep if looked at thoroughly, which is, in a nutshell, realism.
What art movement was Italian artists F T Marinetti and Umberto Boccioni known for?
F T Marinetti is known as the founder of the futurist art movement and Umberto Boccioni was a futurist sculptor.
Who were the early impressionists influenced by?
A main one is photography. A photo shows a moment in time with the light of the moment. This is what the Impressionists showed, too.
Why were impressionist paintings painted outside?
Outdoors to catch the light they were interested in.
What is the difference between a formal art critique and someone's opinion of a work of art?
A formal critique will describe why the critic liked or disliked a work of art.
Who was considered the father of modernism in art?
In painting - Cézanne In architcture - Louis Sullivan
What were the two major art forms of the Renaissance?
Perspective is one of the most important advancements of the Renaissance. Artists developed techniques like foreshortening, atmospheric perspective, and one-point perspective. Brunelleschi, Masaccio, and Mategna can be considered the fathers of perspective in the Renaissance...later artists like Leonardo da Vinci built off their ideas.
Color, too-- Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and paintings depicting mythical Arcadia by Titian, Bellini, and Giorgione da Castelfranco all encompass a breathtaking palette of colors. Color was also used to direct the eye toward the subject of the painting (see the color of the robes in Masaccio's Holy Trinity).
Light-- Artists like da Vinci developed the technique of sfumato (misty haziness, like in the Mona Lisa) and chiaroscuro (the subtle play of light and dark).
Hope this helps.
There was no one founder. A group of collectors, curators and artists are required for all art movements. A British critic coined the term "Pop Art" (popular art) in the mid fifties. The movement took off in New York in the sixties.
The movement arose out of a sense of frustration with Abstract Expressionism, a severe school of painting that permitted no reference to the outside world and hoped to achieve direct emotional contact between artist and viewer, leading the viewer inward to the deepest and most sublime feelings of the soul.
What are the major themes of art in the Baroque and the Rococo eras?
Baroque subjects were religious, mythological, landscape, still life. Rococo partly the same things, but new was describing the happy life of those who did not work. And portraiture has always been a big thing.
What are the characteristics of neo classical art?
It's a style in art, architecture, and the decorative arts that flourished in Europe and North America from about 1750 to the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman froms.
