When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 20th-century art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_art

    Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism , Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting.

  3. Cubism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

  4. Modernism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism

    This journal was "part of an 'art for art's sake' movement, influenced by European Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, and other modernist styles". [ 219 ] Japanese modernist architect Kenzō Tange (1913–2005) was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designing major ...

  5. List of art movements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_movements

    See Art periods for a chronological list. This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in ...

  6. Fauvism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism

    Fauvism (/ f oʊ v ɪ z əm / FOH-viz-əm) is a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century. It was the style of les Fauves ( French pronunciation: [le fov] , the wild beasts ), a group of modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational ...

  7. Art of Europe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Europe

    The trend away from painting in the late 20th century has been countered by various movements, for example the continuation of Minimal Art, Lyrical Abstraction, Pop Art, Op Art, New Realism, Photorealism, Neo Geo, Neo-expressionism, New European Painting, Stuckism, Excessivism and various other important and influential painterly directions.

  8. Expressionism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism

    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.

  9. 20th-century Western painting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_Western_painting

    Expressionism and Symbolism are broad rubrics encompassing several important and related movements in 20th-century painting that dominated much of the avant-garde art being made in Western, Eastern, and Northern Europe. Expressionist works were painted largely between World War I and World War II, mostly in France, Germany, Norway, Russia ...