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ART NOUVEAU

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ART NOUVEO The Movement’s Origins The term Art Nouveau first appeared in the Belgian art journal  L’Art Moderne  in 1884 to describe the work of Les Vingt, a society of 20 progressive artists that included  James Ensor .  These painters responded to leading theories by French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and British critic John Ruskin, who advocated for the unity of all arts.  In December 1895, the German-born art dealer Siegfried Bing opened a gallery in Paris named “Maison l’Art Nouveau.” ARTIST AUBREY BEARDSLEY Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career was remarkably impact for its brevity.  In the seven years he was able to draw and write before succumbing to tuberculosis, Beardsley developed a reputation as one of the most controversial artists of his time.  The diabolic beauty of his work and its overwhelming presence in English publishing houses meant that Beardsley quickly became the most influential draf...
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POST IMPRESSION

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                                          POST IMPRESSION STARRY FRIGHT Post-Impressionism in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations.  The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others.  All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature in terms of the fugitive effects of colour and light.   The work of these painters formed a basis for several contemporary trends and for earl...
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ROMANTICISM ART

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ROMANTICISM  : ART MOVEMENT Romanticism  was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at itspeak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.  Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.  It was partly a reaction to the  Industrial Revolution ,  the aristocratic social and political norms of the  Age of Enlightenment , and the scientific  rationalization  of nature. All components of  modernity .  It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography,   education,   and the  natural sciences .   It had a significant and complex effect on politics, with romantic thinkers influencing  liberal...
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BARAQUE ART

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DEFINITION OF BARAQUE ART ( C.1600-1800 ) The   Apotheosis of St Ignatius (1694) San Ignazio, Rome, by Pozzo. One of the Baroque's most inspiring religious paintings  ever created. the term Baroque (derived from the Portuguese 'barocco' meaning, 'irregular pearl or stone' ) describes a fairly complex idiom, originating in Rome, which flowered during the period c.1590-1720, and which embraced painting, and sculpture as well as architecture.  After the idealism of the Renaissance (c.1400-1530), and the slightly 'forced' nature of Mannerism (c.1530-1600), Baroque art above all  reflected the religious tensions of the age  - notably the desire of the Catholic Church in Rome (as Annunciation at the Council of Trent, 1545-63) to reassert itself in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.  Thus it is almost synonymous with  Catholic Counter-Reformation Art  of the period. Styles/Types of Baroque Art   Baroq...
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RENAISSANCE ART

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RENAISSANCE ART ORIGINS OF RENAISSANCE ART The origins of Renaissance art can be traced to Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. During this so-called “ proto-Renaissance” period (1280-1400), Italian scholars.  Writers such as Petrarch (1304-1374) and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) looked back to ancient Greece and Rome and sought to revive the languages, values and intellectual traditions of those cultures after the long period of stagnation that had followed the fall of the Roman Empire in the sixth century. 💡 Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate "Renaissance man," practiced all the visual arts and studied a wide range of topics, including anatomy, geology, botany, hydraulics and flight. His formidable reputation is based on relatively few completed paintings, including "Mona Lisa," "The Virgin of the Rocks" and "The Last Supper." The Florentine painter Giotto (1267?-1337), the most famous artist of the proto...
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