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Gothic Art defines much of the late medieval art that grew out of the Byzantine and Romanesque traditions. These were very old and formal artistic tradition with religious.
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The Early Renaissance was the time of artistic development in Italy when art broke away from the rigid Byzantine and Gothic traditions.
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International Gothic is the term used to describe the transition of styles in Northern Europe and Italy during the period between Byzantine Art, Late Gothic Art and Early Renaissance art.
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The Northern Renaissance is the term given to the art of north and west Europe during the Italian Renaissance
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The High Renaissance marks the pinnacle of artistic development in Italian art of the late 14th, 15th and early 16th centuries. The word 'Renaissance' means 'rebirth' - a rebirth of the classical ideals from Ancient Rome and Greece.
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Mannerism is a 20th century term that was used to describe several exaggerated or mannered styles of art that evolved towards the end of the High Renaissance.
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Baroque was a reaction against the artificial stylization of Mannerism. It spread throughout Europe during the 17th century.
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Dutch Art has become popular for its still lifes, portraits, landscapes, interiors and genre painting.
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Dutch Art has become popular for its still lifes, portraits, landscapes, interiors and genre painting.
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Rococo is a term which derives from the French word ‘rocaille’ which also means rock-work, referring to a style of interior decoration that spins with arrangements of curves and scrolls.
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Neoclassicism was a reaction against the pomposity of Rococo. This was the Age of the Enlightenment and political, social and cultural revolution were in the air.
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Romanticism shows the expression of emotion over the control of Classicism.
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Realism was a French style of painting which focused on the everyday reality of a subject, warts and all.
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The Pre-Raphaelites were a brotherhood of young English artists who created artworks that were a blend of Realism and Symbolism.
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Impressionism was the name given to a colorful style of painting in France at the end of the 19th century.
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Post Impressionism was not a particular style of painting.
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Fauvism was a joyful style of painting that used outrageously bold colors.
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German Expressionism is a style of art that is charged with an emotional or spiritual vision of the world.
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Abstract Art is a generic term that describes two different methods of abstraction: 'semi abstraction' and 'pure abstraction'.
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Cubism was invented around 1907 in Paris by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
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Futurism was a revolutionary Italian movement that celebrated modernity.
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Constructivism used the same geometric language as Suprematism but abandoned its mystical vision in favour of their 'Socialism of vision' - a Utopian glimpse of a mechanized modernity according to the ideals of the October Revolution.
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Suprematism was developed in 1915 by the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich.
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Dada was not a style of art like Fauvism or Cubism.
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De Stijl was a Dutch 'style' of pure abstraction developed by Piet Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg and Bart van der Leck.
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Surrealism was the positive response to Dada's negativity.
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Abstract Expressionism was a first American art style to exert an influence on a global scale.
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Pop Art was the anmovement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 60's.
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Minimalism was not only a reaction against the emotionally charged techniques of Abstract Expressionism but also a further refinement of pure abstraction.
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Op Art is short for 'optical art'.
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Op Art is short for 'optical art'.