Non-representational, non-objective
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Generally, non-representational and non-objective are terms applied to abstract imagery that makes no reference to the world of people, places, physical objects or recognizable environments; art from which all identifiable subject matter has been eliminated.
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Excerpt from Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Mary Ann Allday, Barb
Conceptual art
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
An art form in which the idea or concept and the process by which it is achieved are more important than any touchable product.
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From Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Mary Ann Allday, Barbara Barrett, and Troy Smythe, Contem
Abstract art
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Abstract works of art can be either non-representational, or can be derived from the real world. In the first case, the work of art is completely invented by the artist, and does not directly reproduce anything in the real world.
Color Field (style)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
During the 1950s, painters Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman expanded from Abstract Expressionism's existential themes of self and the universe. Rather than the emotive gestures Jackson Pollock employed, Rothko and Newman experimented with large expanses of color and the margins between them. They continue to be widely recognized as generative color field painters.
Nabis
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1888 a group of art students at the Académie Julian in Paris began to forge their own response to the Impressionist tradition. It was probably the critic Henri Cazalis who suggested the term Nabi, meaning prophet in Hebrew, as the name for his close-knit group of h
Symbolist (style)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Artists have always made use of symbols, but symbolism took on a new meaning at the end of the 19th century.
Pop (style)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the incorporation of images from popular culture and everyday life came to complete fruition in the movement known as pop art.
Neoclassical (style)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The tumultuous political events at the end of the 18th century found their visual counterpoint in the cool precision of the era’s dominant visual style, neoclassicism.
Impressionism
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The impressionist movement was born when a small group of artists, frustrated by their exclusion from the state-sponsored exhibitions of contemporary art, arranged to show their work together privately.
Genre Painting (European)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
From the Renaissance to the beginning of the modern period, European paintings were classified according to genre, or subject matter, and each genre had its rank.