Art Styles and Movements Renaissance Discover Italian and Northern Renaissance.

The term Renaissance comes from the French word for "rebirth." The Renaissance was the intellectual rebirth of Europe which began in Italy in the fourteenth century. This is when Middle Ages started to change. Science and more modern ideas started to emerge. Baroque Discover Baroque artists and what kind of art they did. Baroque art is extravagant, expansive, ornate, and sometimes garish. The time span of the Baroque art period was from 1600-1750. This was a time of high scientific ideas, emotional art, and artistic discoveries. This type of art was highly decorative. Rococo A very elaborate artistic style which began in France immediately following the Baroque period in the eighteenth century and spread throughout Europe. Rococo artworks are characterized by great charm, subtlety and delicate colors and designs. There is also a style of music that is Rococo. It is characterized by elegance and formality. Post Impressionism A late 19th Century French art movement where the artists not only painted what they saw, but also what they felt. Neo-Classicism Neo-Classicalism began in the middle of the 18th Century and was in decline by the early 19th Century. Neo-classicalism was born out of a rejection of the Rococo and late Baroque styles of art. Neo-classical artists wanted a style that could convey serious moral idas such as justice, honor, and patriotism. They wanted to re-create the simple dignified style of the art of classical Greece and Rome. Romanaticism A European art style of art that was popular during the early nineteenth century. It was characterized by brilliant colors, exotic settings, and a great deal of drama and action. The idea that the artists were trying to portray was man against nature. Fauvism Fauve is a French word that means "Wild Beast." Artists are named Fauve because of their radical use of intense, pure color for emotional and decorative effects. The Fauvists' movement was the first important aesthetic movement of the 20th century. Expressionism A 20th Century aesthitic movement which rejected the reprresentation of natural subjects. Expressionists believed that art should communicate the artist's emotions rather than a realistic image, and they used distortion as an importnat means of emphasis. Surrealism Surrealism is an art movement in which artists combined naturally unrelated events, images, objects, or situations in a dreamlike scene. Pop Art Pop Art was an art movement that was a reflection of the popular culture, the media, and advertising images. These artists painted the things that were popular during the 1960's. Impressionism Discover Impressionism, the kind of art work they did and the different artists. Impressionism is a

style of painting which originated in France in the last half of the nineteenth century. It is characterized by bold, choppy brushstrokes of pure color laid next to each other to represent the effects of light on the subject. Impressionist painters wanted to create an illusion of light in their paintings. They wanted to capture that moment in time. Abstract Expressionism An art movement that began in New York City in 1946. The style is a revolt against all traditional styles and emphasizes spontaneous expression. It was term "action painting" in 1953 by the critic Harold Rosenberg. Often in Abstract Expressionism there is nothing that really looks realistic and uses mostly colors and shapes. Cubism Discover Cubism, what it means and the different artists that painted in that style. An art movement which the subject matter is separated into