Styles of Art

Artists used many styles in their paintings and drawings. Here are some of themore common styles of art. Learn about each style and how to identify it. Next

time you look at a painting, try to figure out what style it is!

THE STYLES

Abstract

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ABOUT THE STYLES

Abstract artists felt that paintingsdid not have to show only things thatwere recognizable. In their paintingsthey did not try to show people,animals, or places exactly as theyappeared in the real world. Theymainly used color and shape in theirpaintings to show emotions. SomeAbstract art is also called Non-objective art. In non-objective art,you do not see specific objects. It isnot painted to look like somethingspecific.

THE ARTISTS

Sonia Delaunay

Jackson Pollock

Cubism

Expressionism

Cubism is modern art made upmostly of paintings. The paintingsare not supposed to look real Theartist uses geometric shapes to showwhat he is trying to paint. Earlycubists used mainly grays, browns,greens, and yellows. After 1914,Cubists started to use brighter colors.Cubism was the beginning of theAbstract and Non-objective artstyles.

Pablo Picasso

Marc Chagall

Georges Braque

In Expressionist Art, the artist tries toexpress certain feelings about something. The artists that painted in thisstyle were more concerned withhaving their paintings express afeeling than in making the paintinglook exactly like what they were

Marc Chagall

WassilyKandinsky

Ludwig Kirchner

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rauvism

Impressionism

Fauuism was an art style that lastedonly four years, beginning in 19O5.The leader of this movement wasHenri Matisse. The word Fauvism isfrench for "wild beasts". It got thisname because the paintings hadbright and unusual colors. Thesubjects in the paintings were shownin a simple way, and the colors andpatterns were bright and wild.

Henri Matisse

impressionism was developed inFrance during the late 19th and early2Oth centuries. These pieces of artwere painted as if someone just tooka quick look at the subject of thepainting. The paintings were usuallyin bold colors and did not have a lotof detail. The paintings in this stylewere usually outdoor scenes likelandscapes. The pictures werepainted to look like they wereshimmering.

Claude Monet

Mary Cassatt

Pierre AugusteRenoir

Camille Pissaro

Pointillism In Pointillism, the artist uses smalldots or strokes of paint to make upthe pictures. From far away, thesedots blend together to form thepicture and give the impression ofdifferent colors as they blendtogether.

Paul $eurat

Paul Signac

Pop Art Pop art can be any every day itemthat is drawn in a brash and colorfulway. Pop Art is short for Popular Art.It is inspired by comic strips,advertising, and popularentertainment.

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Claes Oldenberg

David Hockney

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Postimpressionism Postimpressionism began in the 19thcentury. It was mainly still lifes andlandscapes. The postimpressionistsliked to use lots of colors andshadows.

Vincent Van Gogh

Henri deToulouse-Lautrec

Paul Gauguin

Paul Cezanne

Primitivism

Realism

Surrealism

Primitive Art looks like art that isdone by a child. Usually the picture ispainted very simply, and the subjectsare "flat", or two-dimensional.

Paul Klee

Henri Matisse

Realism is a type of art that showsthings exactly as they appear in life.It began in the 18th century, but thegreatest Realist era was in the mid-19th century. Most Realists were fromFrance, but there were some famousAmerican painters who were Realistsalso.

Henri deToulouse-Lautrec

Leonardo DaVinci

Gustave Courbet

Honore Daumier

Thomas Eakins

John SingletonCopley

Surrealists paintings were generallybased on dreams. Their paintingswere filled with familiar objectswhich were painted to look strangeor mysterious. They hoped their oddpaintings would make people look atthings in a different way and changethe way they felt about things. Theythought that their paintings mightstir up feelings in the back of peoplesminds.

Salvador Dali

Henri Rousseau

Max Ernst

Rene Magritte

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