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TYPES OF ART STYLES

What are art styles?

The way an artist creates a piece of work.

An artist’s technique.

Long, brushy strokes with their paint brushes

Or short, pointed dots with their brushes

Rembrandt: Realism

Seurat: Pointilism

REALISM

Art that looks like real life.

Sometimes they look so real, they look like photos!

Leonardo DaVinci: Mona Lisa, Realism

IMPRESSIONISM

Uses blurred colors and imperfect shapes

Fuzzy, hard to see

Claude Monet: Sunrise, Impressionism

EXPRESSIONISM

Is not supposed to look real

Expresses meaning or emotions

ABSTRACT

Art that doesn’t really resemble anything

Can represent a feeling or emotion without even looking like anything

ARTIST’S CHOICES

Why might an artist choose to paint abstractly instead of realistically?

What kinds of choices do artists make when painting?

Imagine yourself as a painter. How would you use paint to represent an idea or emotion?

What kinds of lines would you use?*

LINES CAN MOVE LIKE THE WIND

LINES CAN MOVE LIKE A VIBRATION

LINES CAN REPEAT AND MOVE

LINES CAN HIT A BASEBALL

LINES CAN MAKE BODIES MOVE