• Greek idealism• Balance• Perfect proportions• Human perfection• Technicality

ClassicalGreek / Roman

• Favored symbolism over realism

• Highly religious• Keen on production rather

than content• Lack of perspective

ByzantineChristian / Late Roman

• Rigorous religious conventions

• Expressive use of line, color and patterns

• Judged by richness of materials and skill

MedievalByzantine / Gothic

• Classical ideals of beauty and form

• Anatomical and scientific accuracy

• Sensual and psychologic response to color and composition

• Appreciation of classical content as theme

Renaissance

Mannerism

• Personal and idealized form of beauty

• Exaggerated physiques

• Contorted figures

Portrait of Laura BattiferriBronzino

Baroque

• Realistic subjects, spectacular action

• Powerful emotions• Asymmetric and

diagonal composition

• Chiaroscuro

David with the head of GoliathCaravaggio

Rococo

• Grandeur• Highly ornate• Pompous• Reaction to

Baroque, lighter, brighter, simpler themes

The progress of loveFragonard

Neoclassic

• Return to classics• Historical accuracy• Heroism, Virtue,

Patriotic themes as allegories to contemporary thought

Napoleon crossing the AlpsJacques Louis David

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 TemeraireJMW Turner

Realism

• Focused on everyday reality

• Objective truth, reflection of social reality

• Visual reality

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1Whistler

Impressionism

• Colourful• Effects of colour and

light in nature• Captures the

atmosphere and weather

• Shadow isn’t dark• Worked outdoors

The White Water LilliesClaude Monet

Postimpressionism

• Emotional• Structural• Symbolic• Spiritual

• Rebelled against limitations in impressionism

Café Terrace at NightVincent Van Gogh

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 HalleKirchner

Abstract Art

• Abstraction, semi or total.

• Deconstructs elements to its basics

• Uses visual elements to signify meaning

• Has several branches to follow:

Violin and PitcherBraque

Cubism

• Ignores tradition of perspective

• Shows several views at once

Ambroise VallardPablo Picasso

Futurism

• Favoured industrialisation, technology, transportation

• Noise, speed, energy of urban lifestyle

• The object moves around, not the artist.

The Rhythm of the ViolinistGiacomo Balla

Suprematism

• Purely geometric• Rejects

representational images

• Pure forms have greater power

SuprematismKazimir Malevich

De Styjl

• Harmony• Universal• Deeply spiritual

Composition with White and YellowPiet Mondrian

Dadaism

• Anti-art• Alive and not

corrupted to tradition• Pastiche• Against order

Tatlin at homeRaoul Hausman

Surrealism

• Positve response to dadaism

• Liberate imagination through subconscious

• Draw the “superior reality” the “su-reality”

• Images of dreams

Time TransfixedRené Magritte

Abstract Expressionism

• Spiritual• Automatism• Known as Action-

Painting

Full Fathom FiveJackson Pollock

Pop Art

• Brash• Colorful• Young• Fun• Hostile to the

establishment• Consumer culture

Cambell’s Soup 1 (Tomato)Andy Warhol

Op Art

• Optical• Abstract• Illusionistic• Illusion of movement

Gestalt 4Victor Vasarely

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