Topics: Arts : Periods and Movements
For genres, eras, styles, periods, or movements that cover multiple different types of art, including music, literature, drama, poetry, architecture, and visual arts.
Art Nouveau
A movement away from imitation of the past starting c.1890, and characterized by undulation, natural or abstract forms.
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Baroque
Art and ArchitectureStyle developed in Europe, England, and Latin America during the 17th and 18th cent.
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Classical
In the strictest sense, this is a term used to characterize the art, literature, and aesthetics created by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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Contemporary
Contemporary generally refers to 20th century. There are many sub - genres of Contemporary.
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Dadaism
International nihilistic movement among European artists and writers, 1916-22. It originated in Zürich with the French poet Tristan Tzara and stressed absurdity and the role of the unpredictable in artistic creation.
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Futurism
Italian school of painting, sculpture, and literature that flourished from 1909, when Filippo Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I.
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Impressionism
Paintinglate-19th-cent, French school. It was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity.
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Islamic
The arts related to the religion of Islam. In the 8th and 9th centuries a specifically Islamic style developed, which spread across the Middle East, India, North Africa and Spain with the Muslim conquests.
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Neo-Classicism
Art and ArchitectureArt produced in Europe and North America from about 1750 through the early 1800s, marked by the emulation of Greco-Roman forms.
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Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed at the end of 1848 in London. The prime movers were three young artists - John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rosetti.
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Realism
an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life.
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Renaissance
Series of literary and cultural movements in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. These movements began in Italy and eventually expanded into Germany, France, England, and other parts of Europe.
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Rococo
style of 18th-century painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation. The rococo period corresponded roughly to the reign (1715-74) of King Louis XV of France.
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Romanticism
Term applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent., in revolt against Classicism and against philosophical rationalism, with its emphasis on reason.
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Surrealism
Influenced by Freudianism, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention.
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