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Rococó
This style was born in France. It is a style that seeks to reflect what is pleasant, refined, exotic and sensual. They adorned the fabrics with cherubs. Thus disappears the drama that characterizes baroque painting. He is easy-going and jovial. Appeals to the senses, to feeling and emotion, rather than to reason. -
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Neoclassicism
The movement sought to return to the classical beauty and magnificence of the Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Neoclassical style is based on simplicity and symmetry and takes its inspiration from the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann who believed that art should aim at the ideal forms and beauty of Greek art. -
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Aestheticism
The Aesthetic Movement aimed to create a new kind of art, an art freed from outworn establishment ideas and Victorian notions of morality. This was to be 'Art for Art's sake' – art that didn't tell stories or make moral points, art that dared simply to offer visual delight and hint at sensuous pleasure. -
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Arts and crafts
The Arts and Crafts movement had a huge effect on Victorian society. Its advocates looked to history and to the countryside to counteract the damaging effects of industrial production, developing a quietly revolutionary new take on domestic design. -
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Art nouveau
This style emerged as a dynamic and expressive style in the visual arts, its inspiration from the natural world, its characteristic motifs include delicate tendrils, organic forms, swooping, swirling lines, eccentric geometry and exotic bodies. -
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Futurism
Style centred in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life. -
Dadaism
A form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. Dada was not so much a style of art like Cubism or Fauvism; it was more a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto. -
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Constructivism
Constructivism called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials, and it was hoped that this investigation would eventually yield ideas that could be put to use in mass production, serving the ends of a modern, Communist society. It borrowed ideas from Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, but at its heart was an entirely new approach to making objects, one which sought to abolish the traditional artistic concern with composition, and replace it with 'construction -
Art Deco
Art Deco drew on timeworn traditions while simultaneously celebrating the modern, mechanised world. This extraordinary blend of tradition and progress, combined with a lively eclecticism, is found throughout Art Deco objects. The Art Deco objects span furnishings, ceramics, glassware, metalwork, fabrics, prints and fashion.