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  2. Style (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    In the visual arts, style is a "... distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories" [1] or "... any distinctive, and therefore recognizable, way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made". [2] Style refers to the visual appearance of a work of art that relates to other ...

  3. Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology.

  4. Baroque - Wikipedia

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    The Baroque ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -⁠ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) or Baroquism [1] is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [2] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past ...

  5. Impressionism - Wikipedia

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    Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

  6. Modern art - Wikipedia

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    Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period ... is one of the most famous works by de Chirico and is an early example of the surrealist style, ...

  7. Cubism - Wikipedia

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    Cubism. Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and sculpture, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

  8. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    A. Aerial perspective by Frans Koppelaar, Landscape near Bologna, 2001; distant objects are lighter, of lower contrast, and bluer than nearer objects. Airbrushing technique. Aerial perspective technique. Acrylic painting techniques. Aging (artwork) technique. Aquatint. Assemblage (art) technique. Animation (digital art)

  9. Expressionism - Wikipedia

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    Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. [1] [2] Expressionist artists have sought ...