Urban Art
Urban
Art relates to the city life often done by artists who live in or have a
passion for city life. In that way urban art combines street
art and graffiti. The street art is done on
everyday objects which make it much more interesting then usual. The
band Gorillaz uses an urban art style to promote their band. The band
members are animated in a graffiti style. Banksy is one of the most famous urban artist, he is a English
graffiti most famous for his stencil rats and publicity stunts, Banksy is also
an unknown person which makes his work much more appealing to some people. Urban art is mainly done by graffiti on the streets. Banksy is a key artist his use of stencils make his work very popular.
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural
movement that started in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual
artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously
contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Surrealism inherited an anti – rationalist
sensibility from Dada and was shaped by emerging theories on our perception of
reality.
Andre
Breton founded the movement in Paris in 1924. The aim of Surrealism was to
reveal the unconscious and reconcile it with rational life. Surrealism also
aimed at the social and political revolution.
Rene Magritte was one of the
most well-known and famous surrealist painters of all time. Most of the work created by
Magritte, takes everyday, normal objects, and he would simply rearrange the
figures and locations, forcing the viewer to take a deeper look at what was in
front of them. The Lost Jockey was a
piece that he introduced in 1925. Over the course of his career, he produced a number
of versions on this piece and changed the format to recreate what the viewer
was experiencing.
Modernism Art Movement
Modern Art or Modernism is the loose term given
to the succession of styles and movements in art and architecture, which dominated Western culture from
19th Century up until the 1970's. A radical break with
the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression.
Movements associated
with Modern art include
Impressionism, Cubism, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Futurism, Pop Art and Op Art. It
wasn’t founded by single person it was found by artists/architects did not
found Modernism who started to produce artwork of a new style/theme.
Dada
Movement
The art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative
reaction the horrors of the war. The movement first started in 1916 by poets
and artists such as Tristan Tzara and Hans Arp and ended in 1924. It was
influenced by earlier art movements such as cubism futurism constructivism and
expressionism. It ranged from performing arts, poetry, photography, sculpture,
painting and collage.
Hans
Arp
In the 1920s and 1930s Arp developed a type of biomorphic
sculpture that suggested a parallel between artistic creativity and creation in
nature. The shapes in his work evoke worn pebbles, buds and other natural
forms. He created these sculptures using a quasi-automatic process of sanding
away at a plaster model until he was satisfied with the shape. ‘I work until
enough of my life has flowed into its body’, he said. His efforts to link his
work with nature included placing sculptures in the forest near his home at
Meudon, where they could be discovered by unsuspecting passers-by.
Art Nouveau
· Late 19th and early 20th
centuries (1180 to 1910).
· Art nouveau was aimed at modernising design, seeking
to escape the eclectic historical styles hat had previously been popular.
· Artists drew inspiration from organic and geometric
forms, evolving elegant designs that united flowing, natural forms with more
angular contours.
· First style to stop using historical ideas and being
inspired by present times.
Characteristics
· Curvy lines
· Whiplash lines
· Vertical lines and hight
· Flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods
· The female form – long, flowing hair
· Exotic woods, iridescent glass, silver and semi
precious stones.
