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Metaphysical painting      

Metaphysical Painting is an Italian art movement, born in 1917 with the work of Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico in Ferrara. The word metaphysical, adopted by De Chirico himself, is core to the poetics of the movement. They aimed to depict an alternative reality which engaged most immediately with the unconscious mind. In this style of painting, an illogical reality seemed credible. Using a sort of alternative logic, Carrà and de Chirico juxtaposed various ordinary subject typically including starkly rendered buildings, trains, and mannequins.

Joe Joubert, Laura corbier

Lyrical Abstraction                                          

Lyrical Abstraction (Color and Mood) is related in spirit to Abstract Expressionism. Lyrical Abstraction represents an opening to personal expression, romantic abstraction in a loose gestural style. Existed in the 1940's.

Karin Kuhlmann.Tom McNease

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 challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Andy Warhol, Jim Dine

Optical Art                                                      

Style to make art an optical illusion.

Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping. Op painters and sculptors used geometric designs in order to create feelings of movement of vibration, sometimes vibratant colours and other times simply black and white.

Evolved in the 1960's.

Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely

Digital Art

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art. The techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisements, and by film-makers to produce special effects. Desktop publishing has had a huge impact on the publishing world, although that is more related to graphic design.

Christopher Haines, Adrien Donot

Street Art                                                           

Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art,flash mobbing and street installations. Typically, the term street art or the more specific post-graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.

Whereas traditional graffiti artists have primarily used free-hand spray can paints to produce their works. Street art encompasses many other media and techniques, including: LED art, mosaic tiling, murals, stencil art, sticker art, street installations, wheatpasting, woodblocking, video projection, and yarn bombing.

1970- France

Banksy, Alexandros Vasmoulakis

Realism                                                                

Realism is defined by the accurate, unembellished, and detailed depiction of nature or contemporary life. The movement prefers an observation of physical appearance rather than imagination or idealization. In this sense, Realism can be found in movements of many other centuries.

1850-1880

Henri Fantin, Jean-Louis Forain

Toyism                                                           

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.

Artist - Missy Sassy, Miss Fihi

Shock Art                                                           

A contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to

create a shocking experience. While the art form's proponents argue that it is "embedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today". While shock art attracts curators and makes headlines, Reason magazine's 2007 review of The Art Newspaper suggested that traditional art shows continue to have more popular appeal

Evolved in the 20th century.

Andres Serrano, Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst

Shin Hanga                                                            

Also known as New Printing, was an important 20th century movement in Japanese printmaking. Shin Hanga print artists often revisited the popular subjects of the classical period of Ukiyo-e: beautiful women, famous actors, and stylized landscapes. In contrast with Sosaku Hanga, or Creative Prints, which are self-published, Shin Hanga prints were produced in the traditional method with artists working in tandem with printers and publishers to create collaborative works. Products of a transitional era, Shin Hanga prints often incorporate modern elements and sensibilities into familiar environments, blending nostalgia for the old with a sense of wonder for the new.

Takashi Ito,Benji Asada

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