Description: Colour field is a style of abstract painting that started in New York City. Inspired by the European modernism and is related also to the Abstract Expressionism. Colour field is characterised primarily by large portions of flat, solid colour spread across large areas, creating an unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. There usually aren't any outlines or bold strokes. Create an even and universal look of all colours.
Dates: During the 1940s and 1950s.
Artist(s): Edward Avedisian, an American abstract painter from the 1960's. Josef Albers, a German born American artist and educator.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/'Beginning',_magna_on_canvas_painting_by_Kenneth_Noland,_Hirshhorn_Museum_and_Sculpture_Garden,_1958..jpg
Underground Comix
Dates: They were very popular in the United States between 1968 and 1975 and in the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1974.
Artsit(s): Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton are cartoonist and were two of the creators.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Zap_Comix1.jpg/250px-Zap_Comix1.jpg
Conceptual Art
Description: Conceptual art is an art form in which the concept/idea involved in the work aren't of traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Most conceptual art works are usually called installations. Some have argued that conceptual art continued this "dematerialization" of art by removing the need for objects altogether, while others, including many of the artists themselves, saw conceptual art as a radical break with Greenberg's kind of formalist Modernism
Dates: Conceptual art emerged during the 1960s.
Artist(s): Marcel Duchamp, a french artist who famously created the 'Fountain' in 1917 and Joseph Kosuth, an US artist who created 'One and Three Chairs' in 1965.
Conceptual Art
Dates: Conceptual art emerged during the 1960s.
Artist(s): Marcel Duchamp, a french artist who famously created the 'Fountain' in 1917 and Joseph Kosuth, an US artist who created 'One and Three Chairs' in 1965.
http://www.sin-stuff.com/affordable/files/gimgs/1_joseph-kosuth-chair.jpg
Dada
Description: Dada (or Dadaism) is a cultural art movement that began in Switzerland. The movement mainly consisted of visual arts, poetry, art manifestoes, theatre, and graphic design. A lot of the topics focused on anti-war and politics. Dada's sole purpose was to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world and its pop culture. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals, politics, and culture.
Dates: Appeared during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.
Artist(s): Hannah Hoch is a German artist who created post war dada artwork.
http://libcom.org/files/images/library/dada.jpg
International Typographic Style
Description: The International Typographic Style (also known as the Swiss Style) is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s. It emphasises cleanliness, readability and objectivity. The design layout is generally asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-seriftypefaces with flush left, ragged right text. International Typographic Style mainly features typography as a primary design element.
Dates: Started in the 1950's but would only become the proper graphic style in the 1970's.
Artists: Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder were some designers that created type based layouts and slightly redefined the style as well.
http://www.aisleone.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/its.jpg
Fauvism
Description: Fauvism is the style of 'les Fauves'. It was a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century where modern artists works were consistent of strong colours. The style slightly relates back to the Impressionism period.
Dates: Style started between 1900-1910
Artist(s): Henri Matisse and André Derain are famous artist with many successful artworks between them both.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg/220px-Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg
Naive Art
Description: Naive art is a art style that is characterized by a childlike simplicity. Quite colourful and vibrant generally depicting of people or animals.
Dates: Goes through from the 18th Century to the 20th Century.
Artist(s): Many artists throughout centuries were apart of the naive art movement one of the earlier ones were Edward Hicks 1780 -1849 and one of the more recent artists Guido Vedovato 1961- recent. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Juego_de_domino.JPG/220px-Juego_de_domino.JPG
LowBrow
Description: Lowbrow art is an underground visual art movement. It emerged in Los Angleos, California but its popularity quickly spread world wide. Its main mediums were underground comix, punk music, hot rod street culture, paintings, toys, digital art and sculptures. Lowbrow art often has a sense of humour with a bit of sarcasm to it.
Dates: Lowbrow came around in the late 1970's
Artist(s): A lot of artists were cartoonists such as Robert Williams and Gary Panter both Americans.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/253_HappyWorld_original.jpg
En Plein Air
Description: En Plein Air means in French 'in the open air'. It usually references paintings of open outdoor scenarios. The use of natural light is quite important in the En Plein Air movement. A lot of the paints used during this time artist had to grind their own dry pigment powder which gives the paintings a textural and interesting/unique look. A lot of Impressionist painters moved into the En Plein Air movement as a natural progression in art form.
Dates: Mainly in the mid 19th Century- was very poplar in 1870's. Popularity continued through to the 20th and 21st century.
Artist(s): Impressionist artists Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir were advocates on the En Plien Air style and majority of theirs paintings were outdoors. More modern day painters consist of John Constable, Henri Biva and Ralph Wallace Burton.
http://www.nikkibaschdavis.com/photos/land/MontereyWharf400h.jpg
Pop Art
Description: Pop art is an art movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, celebrities, news, brands, newspapers etc. Pop art used aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects aimed to emphasise the banal or kitschy elements of any given modern culture. Artist's would incorporate the use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. Pop Art would often portray society in a ironic point of view.
Dates: Popped up in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.
Artist(s): Most poplar, well known, famous pop artist would be Andy Warhol. Famous for his Campbell's Soup Cans and his Marilyn Monroe.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Hamilton-appealing2.jpg
Rococo
Description: Rococo was a new 18th century artistic movement. It covered painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, fashion, decoration, literature, music and theatre. Rococo went against the earlier movement of Baroque, with its strict symmetry and straight edges, it was more fluid, floral and soft. Ornamentals were greatly exaggerated and enlarged. Colour scheme was usually of soft creamy pastels colours with gold and silver. The design was asymmetrical and curvy with lots of details. Painters would often depict romance and love as they're paintings concept swell as other emotions.
Dates: Predominately was the the 18th Century art movement.
Artist(s): Artist's such as Antoine Watteau, Jean François de Troy and François Boucher lead the way of the Rococo period.
Surrealism
Description: Surrealism was a cultural movement best known for its visual artworks and writings. Surrealist artworks were out there/out of the box/unexpected juxtapose. Some artworks were connected to philosophies and revolution. Said to have developed out of Dada. Quickly spreading around the world during and after World War I changing visual arts, literature, film, music, philosophy and political views.
Dates: Early 1920's
Artist(s): Salvador Dalí was a most popular and peculiar artist, depicting a lot of his paintings on dreams and theories or philosophies he became quite popular for his unique point of view of society and his lavishly large moustache.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg
Toyism
Description: Toyism was a post modernism art movement of 'anything goes'. Toyism originated from the Netherlands in the 1990's were the concentration was on the craft of painting. The toyist style of painting emphasizes narrative depictions featuring figurative rather than abstract objects, almost cartoon like. It uses heavy use of outlining, bold colors and craftsmanship. Toyist artists usually have a consistent icon or motif in all their paintings.
Dates: The 1970s-1990s to recent, toyism is used
Artist(s): Artisit of Toyism all conjugate in a group and go by aliases.
http://0.tqn.com/d/arthistory/1/G/e/R/t14_miss_sassy_soulmates.jpg
Bibliography:
Dada
Dates: Appeared during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.
Artist(s): Hannah Hoch is a German artist who created post war dada artwork.
http://libcom.org/files/images/library/dada.jpg
International Typographic Style
Dates: Started in the 1950's but would only become the proper graphic style in the 1970's.
Artists: Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder were some designers that created type based layouts and slightly redefined the style as well.
http://www.aisleone.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/its.jpg
Fauvism
Dates: Style started between 1900-1910
Artist(s): Henri Matisse and André Derain are famous artist with many successful artworks between them both.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg/220px-Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg
Naive Art
Dates: Goes through from the 18th Century to the 20th Century.
Artist(s): Many artists throughout centuries were apart of the naive art movement one of the earlier ones were Edward Hicks 1780 -1849 and one of the more recent artists Guido Vedovato 1961- recent. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Juego_de_domino.JPG/220px-Juego_de_domino.JPG
LowBrow
Dates: Lowbrow came around in the late 1970's
Artist(s): A lot of artists were cartoonists such as Robert Williams and Gary Panter both Americans.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/253_HappyWorld_original.jpg
En Plein Air
Dates: Mainly in the mid 19th Century- was very poplar in 1870's. Popularity continued through to the 20th and 21st century.
Artist(s): Impressionist artists Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir were advocates on the En Plien Air style and majority of theirs paintings were outdoors. More modern day painters consist of John Constable, Henri Biva and Ralph Wallace Burton.
http://www.nikkibaschdavis.com/photos/land/MontereyWharf400h.jpg
Pop Art
Dates: Popped up in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.
Artist(s): Most poplar, well known, famous pop artist would be Andy Warhol. Famous for his Campbell's Soup Cans and his Marilyn Monroe.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Hamilton-appealing2.jpg
Rococo
Dates: Predominately was the the 18th Century art movement.
Artist(s): Artist's such as Antoine Watteau, Jean François de Troy and François Boucher lead the way of the Rococo period.
Surrealism
Dates: Early 1920's
Artist(s): Salvador Dalí was a most popular and peculiar artist, depicting a lot of his paintings on dreams and theories or philosophies he became quite popular for his unique point of view of society and his lavishly large moustache.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg
Toyism
Dates: The 1970s-1990s to recent, toyism is used
Artist(s): Artisit of Toyism all conjugate in a group and go by aliases.
http://0.tqn.com/d/arthistory/1/G/e/R/t14_miss_sassy_soulmates.jpg
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_comix
http://sirrealcomix.mrainey.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style
http://www.internationalposter.com/style-primer/international-typographic.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowbrow_(art_movement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo#Rococo_painting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
http://www.surrealist.com/
http://www.toyism.com/home/
http://arthistory.about.com/od/arthistory101/a/toyism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyism
http://sirrealcomix.mrainey.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada
http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style
http://www.internationalposter.com/style-primer/international-typographic.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naïve_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowbrow_(art_movement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_plein_air
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo#Rococo_painting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
http://www.surrealist.com/
http://www.toyism.com/home/
http://arthistory.about.com/od/arthistory101/a/toyism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyism
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