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  2. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not synonymous.

  3. Abstract art - Wikipedia

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    Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.

  4. Realism (art movement) - Wikipedia

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    Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. [1] Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it ...

  5. Art movement - Wikipedia

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    An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

  6. Modern art - Wikipedia

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    Abstract expressionism – Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Lee Krasner, American Abstract Artists – Ilya Bolotowsky, Ibram Lassaw, Ad Reinhardt, Josef Albers, Burgoyne Diller; Art Brut – Adolf Wölfli, August Natterer, Ferdinand Cheval, Madge Gill

  7. Abstract impressionism - Wikipedia

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    Abstract impressionism is an art movement that originated in New York City, in the 1940s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It involves the painting of a subject such as real-life scenes, objects, or people (portraits) in an Impressionist style, but with an emphasis on varying measures of abstraction . [ 2 ]

  8. Abstract expressionism - Wikipedia

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    Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists.

  9. Photorealism - Wikipedia

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    John's Diner with John's Chevelle, 2007 John Baeder, oil on canvas, 30×48 inches. Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.