ABOUT THIS MURTYRAMA BLOG

 I have created my new blog MURTYRAMA for creating a gallery of photographs and my writings on photography, including my memoirs of my long journey in photography which began c. 1950 when I started living in Patna when my father came there to serve in the bihar Rashta Bhasha Parishad. This blog will also contain my musings on the art of photography and even painting, with a selection of great specimens from both fields. Here I present first a photo I took in 1952 when I visited an Industrial Training Institute in Digha (Patna) as part of my Departmental excursion (Geography). I sent the photo and it won a second prize of Rs 25 and published in The Illustrated Weekly of India.


 And then there are a few more from the same period, the 50s of the last century, all taken with a Kodak or Gaevert Box camera or a little later by my favourite Agfa Isolette camera which remained with me till 1958 when it was stolen by a neighbour. I shall record more memories by and by, but first these early photos:






All these are (C) Dr BSM Murty and cannot be republished even privately without a due acknowledgement to Dr BSM Murty. For more contact : bsmmurty@gmail.com or Mob. 7752922938 (WApp).


 THROUGH THE LENS

The megapixel has arrived with the mobile.And it has the ‘selfie’ tied in its tail.The social media is now awash with snaps, snaps and snaps – some nice, mostly poor or indifferent. Selfies and family photos, with lots of tourist photos are chock-a-block on the Facebook. Mostly without captions! The onlooker in most cases can’t make out what’s what and where and why. It’s a great festival of narcissism!

For all practical purposes this is a democratization of photography, an escalation from its elitist past as an art. You don’t need the elaborate paraphernalia of a roll film, special lenses, filters, then the hassle and cost of film processing, printing or enlargements. One soft touch is enough. Everything is built-in in the phone-camera itself including automatic focussing, exposure control, and post-click editing. All botheration gone!

But, ah, those good old days of the art of photography! And my memory travels back half a century and more into the 1950s.Those glamorous days of Hasselblad, Leica and Rolliflex, with all their complex attachments including the tripod, down to the little Kodak Baby Brownie, so cute like a tiny lap dog or cat! It was indeed my first camera, the only one I could afford as a schoolboy. It used a 127 size film. I still have some 127 size negatives of family snaps. But some landscape scenes also.

Then, as I entered college and my passion for photography deepened with the dawn of adolescence, I graduated to the Kodak Box 620 and an Agfa Isolette 120. I became a regular visitor to the Trivedi Studio in Patna and became a proper disciple of Jayanti Bhai, the greatest portraitist of his time in Bihar. I would cut classes in Patna College, across the road, and spend hours learning darkroom techniques of film development and enlargement from my master, Subsequently I even built a personal darkroom at home with an improvised enlarger with my Isolette camera attached to a wooden box.

I began experimenting with all aspects of photography both in and out of the darkroom. I also got interested in film-making, though I lacked means to buy a movie camera. (My father was already extremely annoyed with my time and money wastage in photography!) But I became a member of the Photographic Society in Patna College where, its Secretary, my Senior, Bhavesh Jha became my mentor in filmography, though most of it I learnt from books in the focal series. Slowly I buikt up a modest library of books on photography and movie-making.But it’s a long story and can be told only in instalments.

I begin it today with this brief post with some of my photographs of the ’50s. The first one of a gas welder at his work. The photograph won a second prize of Rs 25 and was published in the Illustrated Weekly of India, It was sometime in 1952 when I was in my first year. I was a Geography student and our professor had taken a batch of us to the Patna Industrial Training Institute at Digha. I took this photo and some others shown here with my Agfa Isolette camera. But some of my earlier photos of my school days taken with a Kodak Baby Brownie and Gaevert box cameras will be included in my subsequent posts.

 The other photos shown here are of my college days, mostly taken by my Isolette camera.No.2 is of smoking chimneys in a factory on way to my village.No.3 is of a ploughing farmer taken also near my village. No.4 is of electricians on repair work somewhere in Patna. And finally no.5 is of village boys taken somewhere in Benipur where I would often spend my vacations with my childhood friend Jittin, second son of Benipuriji, who was “chachaji’ to me.

My long passionate love story of photography will unfold  slowly here on this Blog MURTYRAMA  in the coming weeks, and I would seek your indulgence to browse through it and record your valued comments!

And now I give a beautiful gallery of paintings and the top-most painters in Western painting as a corollary of photography

On Painting & Painters        pds:16724

[For more type name of artist in Google & look for The ArtStory entry where you also find beauriful quotes of the artist at the top. Looking at the opening page you will also see information about films on some of them. For paintings of most of these painters see ‘Paintings’ file in PHOTOS NEW MM file on Desktop]

 

Edouard Manet : 1832-1883

 

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"I paint what I see and not what others like to see."

 

Édouard Manet was the most important and influential artist to have heeded poet Charles Baudelaire's call to artists to become painters of modern life. Manet had an upper-class upbringing, but also led a bohemian life, and was driven to scandalize the French Salon public with his disregard for academic conventions and his strikingly modern images of urban life. He has long been associated with the Impressionists; he was certainly an important influence on them and he learned much from them himself. However, in recent years critics have acknowledged that he also learned from the Realism and Naturalism of his French contemporaries, and even from 17th century Spanish painting. This twin interest in Old Masters and contemporary Realism gave him the crucial foundation for his revolutionary approach.

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

Edgar Degas : 1834-1917

 

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Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Wikipedia

Always remembered as an Impressionist, Edgar Degas was a member of the seminal group of Paris artists who began to exhibit together in the 1870s. He shared many of their novel techniques, was intrigued by the challenge of capturing effects of light and attracted to scenes of urban leisure. But Degas's academic training, and his own personal predilection toward Realism, set him apart from his peers, and he rejected the label 'Impressionist' preferring to describe himself as an 'Independent.' His inherited wealth gave him the comfort to find his own way, and later it also enabled him to withdraw from the Paris art world and sell pictures at his discretion. He was intrigued by the human figure, and in his many images of women - dancers, singers, and laundresses - he strove to capture the body in unusual positions. While critics of the Impressionists focused their attacks on their formal innovations, it was Degas's lower-class subjects that brought him the most disapproval.

Paul Cezanne :1839-1906

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Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century. Wikipedia

Paul Cézanne was the preeminent French artist of the Post-Impressionist era, widely appreciated toward the end of his life for insisting that painting stay in touch with its material, virtually sculptural origins. Also known as the "Master of Aix" after his ancestral home in the South of France, Cézanne is credited with paving the way for the emergence of twentieth-century modernism, both visually and conceptually. In retrospect, his work constitutes the most powerful and essential link between the ephemeral aspects of Impressionism and the more materialist, artistic movements of Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and even complete abstraction.

 

 

Claude Monet: 1840-1926

Claude Monet

 

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Wikipedia

Claude Monet was the leader of the French Impressionist movement, literally giving the movement its name. As an inspirational talent and personality, he was crucial in bringing its adherents together. Interested in painting in the open air and capturing natural light, Monet would later bring the technique to one of its most famous pinnacles with his series paintings, in which his observations of the same subject, viewed at various times of the day, were captured in numerous sequences. Masterful as a colorist and as a painter of light and atmosphere, his later work often achieved a remarkable degree of abstraction, and this has recommended him to subsequent generations of abstract painters.

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Pierre Auguste Renoir : 1841-1919

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir [1] ( French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most popular practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the 19th century. Though celebrated as a colorist with a keen eye for capturing the movement of light and shadow, Renoir started to explore Renaissance painting in the middle of his career, which led him to integrate more line and composition into his mature works and create some of his era's most timeless canvases.

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Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903

Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. Wikipedia

Paul Gauguin is one of the most significant French artists to be initially schooled in Impressionism, but who broke away from its fascination with the everyday world to pioneer a new style of painting broadly referred to as Symbolism. As the Impressionist movement was culminating in the late 1880s, Gauguin experimented with new color theories and semi-decorative approaches to painting. He famously worked one summer in an intensely colorful style alongside Vincent Van Gogh in the south of France, before turning his back entirely on Western society. He had already abandoned a former life as a stockbroker by the time he began traveling regularly to the south Pacific in the early 1890s, where he developed a new style that married everyday observation with mystical symbolism, a style strongly influenced by the popular, so-called "primitive" arts of Africa, Asia, and French Polynesia. Gauguin's rejection of his European family, society, and the Paris art world for a life apart, in the land of the "Other," has come to serve as a romantic example of the artist-as-wandering-mystic.

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Vincent Van Gogh : 1853-1890

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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, generally considered to be the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. He sold only one artwork during his life, but in the century after his death he became perhaps the most recognized painter of all time.

During his 10-year artistic career, Vincent van Gogh created a vivid personal style, noted for its striking colour, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms. His achievement is all the more remarkable for the brevity of his career and considering the poverty and mental illness that dogged him.

Vincent van Gogh’s career as an artist was extremely short, lasting only the 10 years from 1880 to 1890. Before that he had various occupations, including art dealer, language teacher, lay preacher, bookseller, and missionary worker.

 

Gustave Klimt : 1862-1918

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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Wikipedia

Gustav Klimt (born July 14, 1862, Vienna, Austria—died February 6, 1918, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession.

After studying at the Vienna School of Decorative Arts, Klimt in 1883 opened an independent studio specializing in the execution of mural paintings. His early work had a classical style that was typical of late 19th-century academic painting, as can be seen in his murals for the Vienna Burgtheater (1888) and on the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

 

Gustav Klimt: The Kiss

The Kiss, oil on canvas by Gustav Klimt, 1908–09; in the Belvedere Museum, Vienna. 180 × 180 cm.(more)

 

In 1897 Klimt’s mature style emerged, and he founded the Vienna Sezession, a group of painters who revolted against academic art in favour of a highly decorative style similar to Art Nouveau. Soon thereafter he painted three allegorical murals for the ceiling of the University of Vienna auditorium that were violently criticized; the erotic symbolism and pessimism of these works created such a scandal that the murals were rejected. His later murals, the Beethoven Frieze (1902) and the murals (1909–11) in the dining room of the Stoclet House in Brussels, are characterized by precisely linear drawing and the bold and arbitrary use of flat, decorative patterns of colour and gold leaf.

Klimt’s most successful works include The Kiss (1908–09) and a series of portraits of fashionable Viennese matrons, such as Fritza Riedler (1906) and Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907). In these works he treats the human figure without shadow and heightens the lush sensuality of skin by surrounding it with areas of flat, highly ornamental, brilliantly composed areas of decoration.

Klimt, Gustav: Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Adele Bloch-Bauer I, oil, silver, and gold on canvas by Gustav Klimt, 1907; in the Neue Galerie, New York City.(more)

During World War II Adele Bloch-Bauer I and several other Klimt paintings belonging to the Bloch-Bauer family were confiscated by the Nazis and eventually added to the collection of the Österreichische Gallery in Vienna. These works later became the focus of a lengthy legal battle, and in 2006 they were finally returned to the family. Later that year Adele Bloch-Bauer I was sold to the Neue Galerie in New York City for a then-record price of $135 million.

 

“Klimt’s art is renowned for its ornamental opulence and emotive depth. In "Portrait of a Lady," the meticulous detail in the dress and the subtle yet expressive features of the woman’s face reflect Klimt’s fascination with female beauty and complexity. His technique involves layers of pattern and color that create a tactile depth, making his figures almost mythic.”  (See the painting"Portrait of a Lady," in PAINTINGS NAMED File)

 

Henri Matisse : 1869-1964

Henri Matisse

“What interests me most is neither still life or landscape; but the human figure. It is that which best permits me to express my so-to-speak religious awe towards life.

Exactitude is not truth.

 

Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century and as a rival to Pablo Picasso in the importance of his innovations. He emerged as a Post-Impressionist, and first achieved prominence as the leader of the French movement Fauvism. Although interested in Cubism, he rejected it, and instead sought to use color as the foundation for expressive, decorative, and often monumental paintings. As he once controversially wrote, he sought to create an art that would be "a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair." Still life and the nude remained favorite subjects throughout his career; North Africa was also an important inspiration, and, towards the end of his life, he made an important contribution to collage with a series of works using cut-out shapes of color. He is also highly regarded as a sculptor. (see ArtStory link for his quotes)

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Pablo Picasso : 1881-1973

Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

I paint objects as I think them , not as I see them.

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (See 15 quotes @ The ArtStory link)

Pablo Picasso was the most dominant and influential artist of the first half of the 20th century. Associated most of all with pioneering Cubism, alongside Georges Braque, he also invented collage and made major contributions to Symbolism and Surrealism. He saw himself above all as a painter, yet his sculpture was greatly influential, and he also explored areas as diverse as printmaking and ceramics. Finally, he was a famously charismatic personality; his many relationships with women not only filtered into his art but also may have directed its course, and his behavior has come to embody that of the bohemian modern artist in the popular imagination.

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Amedeo Modigliani: 1884-1920

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A central participant in the École de Paris, Modigliani modernized two of the enduring themes of art history: the portrait and the nude. Characterized by a sense of melancholy, elongated proportions, and mask-like faces influenced by such sources as Constantin Brancusi and African art, Modigliani's portraits are both specific and highly stylized, each uniquely revealing its sitter's inner life, while at the same time unmistakably "Modiglianized," to use the words of one critic. Modigliani's nudes scandalized audiences with their depiction of features such as pubic hair and their frank, unadorned sexuality. The subject of three biographical movies, Modigliani's legacy is inextricably bound up with his tragic and bohemian life: his fragile health, which plagued him since childhood; his perpetual pennilessness; and - most famously - his over-the-top, self-destructive lifestyle, which included sexual debauchery and overuse of drugs and alcohol.

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Marc Chagall : 1887-1985

Marc Chagall

See his quotes at The ArtStory page

Marc Chagall was a Belarusian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Wikipedia

Marc Chagall's poetic, figurative style made him one of most popular modern artists, while his long life and varied output made him one of the most internationally recognized. While many of his peers pursued ambitious experiments that led often to abstraction, Chagall's distinction lies in his steady faith in the power of figurative art, one that he maintained despite absorbing ideas from Fauvism and Cubism. Born in Russia, Chagall moved to France in 1910 and became a prominent figure within the so-called École de Paris. Later he spent time in the United States and the Middle East, travels which reaffirmed his self-image as an archetypal "wandering Jew."

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Salvadore Dali :1904-1989

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century and the most famous Surrealist. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and, perhaps most famously, filmmaking in his collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock. Dalí was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work. (see quotes@TheArtStory page)

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For more paintings of these masters see the File PAINTINGS (Named) in LT

 

 

Also see Google for Movements in Modern European Painting (Notes below)

The Most Famous Art Movements and Styles

Essential Art Movements and Styles


·        Rococo

·        Street Art

·        Surrealism

·        Suprematism

·        Symbolism

·        Zero Group

 

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism

The designation ‘Abstract Expressionism’ encompasses a wide variety of American 20th-century art movements in abstract art. Also known as The New York School, this movement includes large painted canvases, sculptures and other media as well. The term ‘action painting’ is associated with Abstract Expressionism, describing a highly dynamic and spontaneous application of vigorous brushstrokes and the effects of dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.

Classicism

 Classicism

The principles embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the different types of art from ancient Greece and Rome, concentrating on traditional forms with a focus on elegance and symmetry.

 

 


 

Art Nouveau

 Art Nouveau

A decorative style that flourished between 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the U.S. Art Nouveau, also called Jugendstil (Germany) and Sezessionstil (Austria), is characterized by sinuous, asymmetrical lines based on organic forms. Although it influenced painting and sculpture, its chief manifestations were in architecture and the decorative and graphic arts, aiming to create a new style, free of the imitative historicism that dominated much of 19th-century art movements and design.

 

 

Avant-garde

 Mazoni, Merda d'Artista. Example of avant-garde

In French, avant-garde means “advanced guard” and refers to innovative or experimental concepts, works or the group or people producing them, particularly in the realms of culture, politics, and the arts.


 

Baroque

 Baroque

The term Baroque, derived from the Portuguese ‘barocco’ meaning ‘irregular pearl or stone’,  is a movement in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century. Baroque emphasizes dramatic, exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted, detail, which is a far cry from Surrealism, to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur.


 

Classicism

 Classicism

The principles embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the different types of art from ancient Greece and Rome, concentrating on traditional forms with a focus on elegance and symmetry.

Developed by the Russian avant-garde around 1915, constructivism is a branch of abstract art, rejecting the idea of “art for art’s sake” in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes. The movement’s work was mostly geometric and accurately composed, sometimes through mathematics and measuring tools.


 

Cubism

Cubism

An artistic movement began in 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who developed a visual language whose geometric planes challenged the conventions of representation in different types of art, by reinventing traditional subjects such as nudes, landscapes, and still lifes as increasingly fragmented compositions.

 

Art Deco

 Art Deco

Emerging in France before the First World War, Art Deco exploded in 1925 on the occasion of the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs (Exhibition of Decorative Arts). Blurring the line between different mediums and fields, from architecture and furniture to clothing and jewelry, Art Deco merged modern aesthetic with skillful craftsmanship, advanced technology, and elegant materials.

Constructivism

 Constructivism

Developed by the Russian avant-garde around 1915, constructivism is a branch of abstract art, rejecting the idea of “art for art’s sake” in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes. The movement’s work was mostly geometric and accurately composed, sometimes through mathematics and measuring tools.

 

 

Dada / Dadaism

 Dadaism

An artistic and literary movement in art formed during the First World War as a negative response to the traditional social values and conventional artistic practices of the different types of art at the time. Dada artists represented a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto, sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic by shocking people into self-awareness.

 

Digital Art

Digital Art

Digital Art broadly covers a variety of creative practices that employ different electronic technologies and result in a final product that is also digital. From computer graphics to virtual reality, from artificial Intelligence to NFT technology, the Digital Art spectrum is wide, innovative, and under the spotlight of the contemporary art market.


 

Expressionism

 Expressionism

Expressionism is an international artistic movement in art, architecture, literature, and performance that flourished between 1905 and 1920, especially in Germany and Austria, that sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Conventions of the expressionist style include distortion, exaggeration, fantasy, and vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of color in order to express the artist’s inner feelings or ideas.

Fauvism

Fauvism

Coined by the critic Louis Vauxcelles, Fauvism (French for “wild beasts”) is one of the early 20th-century art movements. Fauvism is associated especially with Henri Matisse and André Derain, whose works are characterized by strong, vibrant colour and bold brushstrokes over realistic or representational qualities.


 

Futurism

Futurism

Fairly unique among different types of art movements, it is an Italian development in abstract art and literature, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, aiming to capture the dynamism, speed and energy of the modern mechanical world.

 


 

Dada / Dadaism

Dadaism

An artistic and literary movement in art formed during the First World War as a negative response to the traditional social values and conventional artistic practices of the different types of art at the time. Dada artists represented a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto, sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic by shocking people into self-awareness


 

Minimalism

Minimalism

Another one of the art movements from the 1960s, and typified by works composed of simple art, such as geometric shapes devoid of representational content. The minimal vocabulary of forms made from humble industrial materials challenged traditional notions of craftsmanship, the illusion of spatial depth in painting, and the idea that a work of abstract art must be one of a kind.

 

Neo-Impressionism

Neo-Impressionism

A term applied to an avant-garde art movement that flourished principally in France from 1886 to 1906. Led by the example of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Neo-Impressionists renounced the spontaneity of Impressionism in favour of a measured and systematic painting technique known as pointillism, grounded in science and the study of optics.

 

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

Almost the opposite of pop art in terms of inspiration, this style is one that arose in the second half of the eighteenth century in Europe, drawing inspiration from the classical art and culture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, which is not uncommon for art movements.

 

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Coined in 1910, the term ‘Post-Impressionism’ describes the reaction against the Impressionists’ naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Artists like Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh developed personal styles unified by their interest in expressing their emotional and psychological responses to the world through bold colours and often symbolic images.

 

Precisionism

Precisionism

Precisionism was the first real indigenous modern art movement in the United States and contributed to the rise of American Modernism. Taking its cues from Cubism and Futurism, Precisionism was driven by a desire to bring structure back to art and celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges and factories.

Rococo

Rococo

Rococo is a movement in art, particularly in architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 1700s.  Rococo art characteristics consist of elaborate ornamentation and a light, sensuous style, including scrollwork, foliage, and animal forms.

 

Surrealism

Surrealism

Founded by the poet André Breton in Paris in 1924, Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement that was active through World War II. The main goal of Surrealism painting and Surrealism artworks was to liberate thought, language, and human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism by championing the irrational, the poetic and the revolutionary.

 

Symbolism

Symbolism

Symbolism emerged in the second half of the 19th century, mainly in Catholic European countries where industrialisation had developed to a great degree. Starting as a literary movement, Symbolism was soon identified with a young generation of painters who wanted art to reflect emotions and ideas rather than to represent the natural world in an objective way, united by a shared pessimism and weariness of the decadence in modern society.

 

There are some more, lesser known, styles (see list above). Also see link below.

https://magazine.artland.com/art-movements-and-styles/

Also see for a full historical perspective

www.thecollector.com › top-30-art-movements  The Top 30 Art Movements In Western History ... - TheCollector

           

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