Virtual field trip_art_styles

The document discusses the elements of visual art, which are the basic building blocks used to create works of art. It defines key elements such as line, shape, form, value, color, texture, space, and mark. While the elements vary across different art forms, they generally include aspects like lines, shapes, colors, tones, and spatial relationships. The document provides examples to illustrate how these elements are used in visual artworks like paintings, drawings, photographs, and films.

A line is a basic visual element that can be used to communicate different feelings and ideas. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved, converging, or radial. Horizontal lines suggest rest or repose while vertical lines communicate loftiness or spirituality. Diagonal lines imply movement or direction. Curved lines indicate movement as well. Converging lines suggest distance while radial lines are used to depict explosions or violence. Lines are versatile tools that can be used to split spaces, surfaces, sketches, draw attention, create textures, tones, values, and 3D shapes.

This document summarizes several styles of non-representational art including abstract art, cubism, primitivism, fauvism, post-impressionism, surrealism, pointillism, realism, impressionism, pop art, and expressionism. It provides brief descriptions of key characteristics for each style, such as cubism breaking up and reassembling objects, primitivism emphasizing nature and emotion, and surrealism featuring unexpected juxtapositions. The styles represented range from complete abstraction to varying degrees of abstraction from visual references in reality.

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter born in 1872 who evolved from painting realistic landscapes to abstract non-representational art using only primary colors of red, blue, and yellow and basic geometric shapes like squares and rectangles. He began his career painting detailed natural scenes from his native Netherlands but gradually simplified his style, removing unnecessary lines and focusing on the fundamental forms. This evolution reflected his interest in abstraction and emphasis on simplicity, order, and universal truths over realistic depiction.

This document provides an overview of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, noting that Impressionist artists like Claude Monet focused on capturing fleeting moments and the effects of light, air, and water, while painting by heart rather than reason, and that Post-Impressionist artists like Vincent Van Gogh used more expressive and sometimes unreal colors, points, lines and streaks to convey their perspectives.

The document discusses basic visual elements including dots, lines, and shapes. It focuses on dots and lines, describing the two types of each. Dots can be geometric or graphic, and they are the smallest visual element. Lines are tracks made by moving points, and can also be geometric or graphic. The document explores line characteristics like intensity, thickness, and color, and different line types including horizontal, vertical, oblique, and curved lines. Art styles like Pointillism and works by Seurat, Signac, and Lichtenstein are mentioned in relation to using dots.

Surrealism was an artistic movement that began in the early 1920s. It emphasized tapping into the subconscious mind to create dreamlike scenes and juxtapose unrelated objects. The founder was Andre Breton, who defined it as resolving the contradictions between dream and reality. Surrealist artists painted scenes with photographic precision but illogical elements, combining everyday objects in strange ways. The movement inspired other fields like film, literature, fashion and challenged conventional views of reality.

Surrealism was an art movement inspired by dreams, nightmares, and the subconscious mind. Key figures included André Breton, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, and Frida Kahlo. Surrealist works featured elements of surprise, dreamlike imagery, distorted objects, and the juxtaposition of unexpected images to express feelings and reveal uncensored thoughts. Surrealism opened eyes to new artistic possibilities and influenced later movements like Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism.

The document provides information about the surrealist art movement in the early 1900s, which was obsessed with dreams, psychology, sex, and death and sought to reveal hidden desires and fears of society. It discusses several surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Frida Kahlo, and Rene Magritte. Key surrealist techniques discussed include juxtaposition, repetition, metamorphosis, and the use of positive and negative space.