Read this fascinating site about Art, by the Department of Art History of Sweet Briar College.
Images d’Epinal
They were invented by J-C Pellerin inthe 18th century in Epinal, France, hence the name.
Some kind of pictures of the same kind already existed in the 15th century. They were meant to educate illiterate people on moral or religious issues.
They were naive and often illustrated tales, legends or religous stories.
They can also be considered the ancestors of comics. The colours that were mainly used were blue, red, yellow, green and black.
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CUBISM
Dada
An art movement that was born in the early twentieth century, which debunked* tradition. The movement was created to ridicule the existing art forms, and it was not a style in itself.
It was a consequence of World War I and the chaos in which social and moral values were left in.
Dada artists produced works which were often both absurd and playful, and often difficult to understand.
Dadaists typically produced unconventional art works.Some used accidents to produce their works of art. The word Dada itself does not mean much. The story goes it was chosen by accident in a dictionary.
to debunk : ridiculiser.
Click here to see a famous Dada work of art
IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism developed during the late 19th century in France. The name was created after Claude Monet’s Impressions : soleil levant.
Impressionist painters wanted to concentrate on the effect of light and colour over nature. Their techniques included the use of colours and their relations to each other with light strokes to imitate the effect of changing light.
Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoie, Pissarro, Degas and Cézanne are some of the major artists of the movement.
English painters Constable and Turner had started to study the effect of changing light and of the masses created by colour earlier.
Pop Art
The expression was born in the 1950s. It is related to popular culture and is close to advertising, and comics. It uses commonplace subjects and objects such as street signs or cars. It is also linked to mass-media and consumerism.
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, David Hockney and Peter Blake are famous artists who have contributed to the fame of pop art.
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Surrealism
SURREALISM
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealism works on the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions. However, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of a philosophical movement.
Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada movement and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting art in many forms in many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, and social theory.
This article was written by Mallaury H.
