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Greek idealism Balance Perfect proportions Human perfection Technicality

Classical Greek / Roman. Greek idealism Balance Perfect proportions Human perfection Technicality. Byzantine Christian / Late Roman. Favored symbolism over realism Highly religious Keen on production rather than content Lack of perspective. Medieval Byzantine / Gothic.

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Greek idealism Balance Perfect proportions Human perfection Technicality

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  1. Classical Greek / Roman • Greek idealism • Balance • Perfect proportions • Human perfection • Technicality

  2. Byzantine Christian / Late Roman • Favored symbolism over realism • Highly religious • Keen on production rather than content • Lack of perspective

  3. Medieval Byzantine / Gothic • Rigorous religious conventions • Expressive use of line, color and patterns • Judged by richness of materials and skill

  4. Renaissance • Classical ideals of beauty and form • Anatomical and scientific accuracy • Sensual and psychologic response to color and composition • Appreciation of classical content as theme

  5. Mannerism • Personal and idealized form of beauty • Exaggerated physiques • Contorted figures Portrait of Laura BattiferriBronzino

  6. Baroque • Realistic subjects, spectacular action • Powerful emotions • Asymmetric and diagonal composition • Chiaroscuro David with the head of GoliathCaravaggio

  7. Rococo • Grandeur • Highly ornate • Pompous • Reaction to Baroque, lighter, brighter, simpler themes The progress of loveFragonard

  8. Neoclassic • Return to classics • Historical accuracy • Heroism, Virtue, Patriotic themesas allegories to contemporary thought Napoleon crossing the AlpsJacques Louis David

  9. Romanticism • Expression of emotion through motion and color • Emotive sensual themes • Imagination and individuality • Beauty and power of nature instead of classical mythology The Fighting Temeraire JMW Turner

  10. Realism • Focused on everyday reality • Objective truth, reflection of social reality • Visual reality Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 Whistler

  11. Impressionism • Colourful • Effects of colour and light in nature • Captures the atmosphere and weather • Shadow isn’t dark • Worked outdoors The White Water Lillies Claude Monet

  12. Postimpressionism • Emotional • Structural • Symbolic • Spiritual • Rebelled against limitations in impressionism Café Terrace at Night Vincent Van Gogh

  13. Expressionism • Highly emotional • Highly spiritual • Distorted shapes • Exaggerated colors • Colors as a depiction of feelings • Deepening roots towards a self-consciousness The Red Tower at Halle Kirchner

  14. Abstract Art • Abstraction, semi or total. • Deconstructs elements to its basics • Uses visual elements to signify meaning • Has several branches to follow: Violin and Pitcher Braque

  15. Cubism • Ignores tradition of perspective • Shows several views at once AmbroiseVallard Pablo Picasso

  16. Futurism • Favouredindustrialisation, technology, transportation • Noise, speed, energy of urban lifestyle • The object moves around, not the artist. The Rhythm of the Violinist GiacomoBalla

  17. Suprematism • Purely geometric • Rejects representational images • Pure forms have greater power Suprematism Kazimir Malevich

  18. De Styjl • Harmony • Universal • Deeply spiritual Composition with White and Yellow Piet Mondrian

  19. Dadaism • Anti-art • Alive and not corrupted to tradition • Pastiche • Against order Tatlin at home Raoul Hausman

  20. Surrealism • Positve response to dadaism • Liberate imagination through subconscious • Draw the “superior reality” the “su-reality” • Images of dreams Time Transfixed René Magritte

  21. Abstract Expressionism • Spiritual • Automatism • Known as Action-Painting Full Fathom Five Jackson Pollock

  22. Pop Art • Brash • Colorful • Young • Fun • Hostile to the establishment • Consumer culture Cambell’s Soup 1 (Tomato) Andy Warhol

  23. Op Art • Optical • Abstract • Illusionistic • Illusion of movement Gestalt 4 Victor Vasarely

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