Movement In Arts
Movement In Arts
Movement in Arts Cornelius Kealoha Ashford University Movement in Arts Art movements are collective titles given to art works sharing the same artistic style, ideals, timeframe and technical approach. 1. Renaissance (14th – 16th Century) This was a period of great cultural and social change in Europe. This period was characterized by imagination, creativity and innovation. It was also a time in when the Europe’s’ classical past was being revisited and reinvigorated.
A lot of inspiration from the cultural movements of Renaissance resulted from the attempts of people to imitate and improve the legacies of classical European societies like the Greece and Ancient Greece. The Renaissance as well signified break from the conformist society as well as culture of medieval Europe. It was a time when mew and inventive ideas started to spread and gain great influence. Artwork significant to the movement (Davis 2011). · Masaccio, Trinity in the Church of Santa Maria Novella, 1426, Florence. (Italicize the titles of art works.) · Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Pietà , 1499, St. Peters Cathedral.
2. Baroque ( 1600 – 1750). This was a period of artistic style which employed exaggerated motion as well as clear and easily interpreted details of producing tension, drama, painting, theater, music, exuberance, architecture and grandeur in sculpture. It began in Rome, Italy and spread to the rest of Europe (Williams 2012). Artwork significant to the movement · Peter Paul Rubens, Samson and Delilah, , the great Flemish. · Pozzo, The Apotheosis of St Ignatius, 1694, San IgnazioRome.
3. Romanticism (18th – mid 19th century). Romanticism is an intellectual or attitude orientation which was marked with numerous works of literature, music, paintings, criticism, architecture and historiography in the western civilization. It can be perceived as a rejection of the principles of order, harmony, balance, calm, balance, rationalism and idealization that was typically classicism and neoclassicism. Romanticism majorly focused on individual, irrational, subjective, personal imaginative, spontaneous, transcendental and visionary (Brookner 2000).
Romanticism was characterized by a deep appreciation of the nature’s beauty, exaltation of emotions over sense of intellect and reason, a new perception of the artist as a supreme creator with creative spirits. Artworks significant to the movement · Caspar David Friedrich, Two men Contemplating the Moon, 1830, Alte National galerie, Berlin. · John William waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888, Tate Collection, London. 4. Impressionism (1874) This is an artistic movement in 19th century which swept away the many of the sculpture styles and paintings of the period. It was regarded as not a passing fad but defined the whole modern way of expressing artistry works.
This ultimately eliminated other forms of art like photography and literature. The impressionists included fresh scientific research in the physics of color so as to achieve more exact representation of tone and color. This was meant to put emphases on the perception of artist of the subject matter as well as the subject itself. Artworks significant to impressionism · Claude Monet, Vetheuil in the Fog, 1879, Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris. · Berthe Morisot, In a Park, 1874, Musee du Petit Palais, Paris. 5.
Modernism (). This refers to a period that was characterized by departure from the tradition and the application of innovative forms of expressions which separates numerous styles of art and literature. This period was marked with interests in new types of paints and other materials which can help in expression of ideas and feelings, developing fantasies and abstractions, instead of showing what is real (Williams 2012).The kind of art in this period needed their audience to carefully observe so as to get the facts from the artist, including the intentions, environment, before judging the work. Artwork significant to Modernism · Edouard Manet, Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, 1867, Kunsthalle, Mannheim. · Jean-Paul Laurens, Last Moments of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1882, Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg. References Brookner, Anita. (2000). Romanticism &Its Discontents . New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. William R.
Everdell, (2012). The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-century Thought , University of Chicago Press. Davis, Robert C. (2011). Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age. (Publication info?) (In APA formatting, it is the second and third lines of your references that are indent instead of the first.)