1. Art and crafts movement
The early Arts and Crafts style, with its well-proportioned soild forms, wide porches, steep roof, pointed window arches, brick fireplaces and wooden fittings.
William Morris 1892 The first page of the nature of gothic by John Ruskin and set in the Golden type. Inspired by the 15th century printer Nicolas Jenson.
A picture of an example of the style is London Red House, Bexleyheat 1859.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Movement)
2. Cubism
That was a 20th century. arrant-garde art movement, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and in spired related movements in music, literature and architecture.
Pablo Picasso portrait of Daniel-Henry- Kahnweiler 1910, the art institute of Chicago. Picasso wrote of Kahnweiler what would have become of us if Kahnweiler hadn't had a business sense.
Georges Braque Violin and candlestick, Paris, Spring 1910. Reflected his new interest in geometry and simu haneous perspective.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cubism)
3. Figurative Art
The formal elements, those aesthetic effects created by design, upon which figurative art is dependent, include line , shape , colour , light and dark , mass , volume , texture , and perspective , although it should be pointed out that these elements of design could also play a role in creating other types of imagery -- for instance abstract, or non-representational or non-objective two-dimensional artwork.The difference is that in figurative art these elements are deployed to create an impression or illusion of form and space, and, usually, to create emphasis in the narrative portrayed.
Ian Hornak, Marica Sewing, variation III, acrylic on canvas, Museum of fine art. Boston, 1978.
Kenyon Cox, nude study, 1896, Kenyon Cox was a strong advancate of figurative art.
A picture of an example of the style is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/figurative-art)
4. Antipodeans
The Antipodeans were a group of Australian modern artists who asserted the importance of figurative art , and protested against abstract expressionism .They staged a single exhibition in Melbourne during August 1959.A picture of an example of the style is ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/antipodeans)
5. Rococo
The Rococo developed in the early part of the 18th century in Paris , France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque , especially that of the Palace of Versailles. In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture.
François Boucher , Le Déjeuner , (1739, Louvre ), shows a rocaille interior of a French bourgeois family in the 18th century.The porcelain statuette and vase add a touch of chinoiserie.
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) is generally considered the first great Rococo painter.He had a great influence on later painters, including François Boucher (1703–1770) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), two masters of the late period.Antoine Watteau , Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera (1717, Louvre ) captures the frivolity and sensuousness of Rococo painting. A picture of an example of the style is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo)
6. Pointillism
The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the traditional methods of blending pigments on a palette .Pointillism is analogous to the four-color CMYK printing process used by some color printers and large presses that place dots of Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow, and Key (black).Televisions and computer monitors use a similar technique to represent image colors using Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) colors.
Georges Pierre Seurat ( 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman .He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism.
Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
A picture of an example of the style is Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, Easel and Japanese Print , January 1889, Oil on canvas, 60 × 49 cm., Courtauld Institute Galleries , London. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism)
7. pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States . Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.
David Hockney , OM , CH , RA , (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington , Yorkshire and Kensington , London.An important contributor to the Pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century.
John McHale (born Maryhill , Glasgow 1922, died Houston,Texas 1978) was an artist and sociologist.He was a founder member of the Institute of Contemporary Arts , and a founder of the Independent Group , which was a British movement that originated Pop Art which grew out of a fascination with American mass culture and post-WWII technologies.A picture of an example of the style is Eduardo Paolozzi . I was a Rich Man's Plaything (1947) is considered the initial standard bearer of "pop art" and first to display the word "pop".Paolozzi showed the collage in 1952 as part of his groundbreaking Bunk! series presentation at the initial Independent Group meeting in London(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I_was_a_Rich_Man%27s_Plaything_1947.jpg)
8. ToyismToyism is an art movement that rose to prominence in The Netherlands in the 1990s.Introduced by an artist using the pseudonym Dejo at the Veenmuseum in 1992, the toyist style of painting emphasizes narrative depictions featuring figurative rather than abstract objects focusing on aspects of the human condition.Stylistically, it features the heavy use of outlining, bold colors and craftsmanship.Toyist artists select a pseudonym and an icon which is incorporated into their paintings.
A picture of an example of the style is（http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=zh-CN&u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FToyism）
9. Cold Fleld
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism , while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists.During the late 1950s and 1960s, Color field painters emerged in Great Britain , Canada , Washington, DC and the West Coast of the United States using formats of stripes, targets, simple geometric patterns and references to landscape imagery and to nature.
Mark Rothko born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Russian-American painter,He is classified as an abstract expressionist , although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter". Mark Rothko was one of the painter, that Greenberg referred to as a Color Field painter exemplified by Magenta, Black, Green on Orange, although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any label.
Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.
A picture of an example of the style is Hans Hofmann , The Gate, 1959-1960.Hofmann was renowned not only as an artist but as a teacher of art.Hofmann was one of the first theorists of color field painting and his theories were influential particularly to Clement Greenberg as well as to others during the 1930s and 1940s.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frankenthaler_Helen_Mountains_and_Sea_1952.jpg)
10. Les NabisLes Nabis (pronounced nah bee) were a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s.Initially a group of friends interested in contemporary art and literature, most of them studied at the private art school of Rodolphe Julian ( Académie Julian ) in Paris in the late 1880s.
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements.At the Académie, he met painters and future Nabi members including Paul Sérusier , Pierre Bonnard ; through Bonnard he also met the future Nabis Édouard Vuillard and Ker-Xavier Roussel.In 1890, they formed The Nabis .They chose "Nabi"—Hebrew for "Prophet"—because they understood they would be creating new forms of expression. The group would split apart by the end of the decade, and would influence the later work of both Bonnard and Vuillard, as well as non-Nabi painters like Henri Matisse.
A picture of an example of the style is (http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=zh-CN&u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLes_Nabis)
