There are 15 schools of Western art, which one do you like best?
4 min readA group of artists who have similar or similar ideological tendencies, aesthetic views, artistic interests and creative styles. In the history of art, the formation and recognition of a certain school of art not only has certain creative propositions, but also must have certain creative practices; Not only does it always have a certain number of artists, but it is always represented by artists who have achieved remarkable achievements in creation.
In art, realism refers to the accurate depiction and representation of nature or contemporary life. Realism abandons idealized imagination and advocates careful observation of the appearance of things and realistic depiction, which contains many artistic thoughts in different civilizations.
Painters seize a characteristic side to paint, so they have to apply color directly to the canvas with a flying brush. They can only think more about the overall effect of the painting and less about details. Impressionism is a kind of brushwork with extensive brushwork and a lack of decoration.
Brutalist painters are keen on the use of bright and strong colors, often using paint directly squeezed out of the paint tube, with blunt and extensive brushwork, to create strong picture effects, fully showing the pursuit of emotional expression of expressionist tendencies.
In form, it prefers the expressive function of lines, as well as the composition between lines and colors, and between lines, colors and composition, showing strong decorative tendency and aestheticism and abstract characteristics.
Expressionism is that artists focus on the expression of inner emotions through their works, while ignoring the description of the form of the object, so it is often reflected in the distortion and abstraction of reality. This practice is especially used to express the emotion of fear. Therefore, expressionism works with cheerful themes are rare.
Artists describe objects from many angles and place them in the same picture to express the most complete image of objects. Each Angle of the object is staggered and overlapping, resulting in many vertical and parallel line angles. Scattered shadows make the Cubist picture without the illusion of three-dimensional space caused by the perspective of traditional Western painting.
The art trend originated in Italy, emphasizing the expression of technology, industrialization and other elements. A series of traces of flyswatter flapping are frozen on the painting, reflecting the features of futurism to express the movement trajectory.
Abstract painting refers to the painting style of the 20th century that wants to deviate from the imitation of nature. It contains a variety of schools, not the name of a school: it is formed through a long and continuous evolution.
Dada was led by a group of young artists and anti-war activists who expressed their despair over bourgeois values and the First World War through anti-aesthetic works and protests.
The colors of these paintings are mainly composed of red, yellow and blue. The use of the contrast and coordination of the three primary colors not only makes the whole painting warm in cold, but also deduces the strong and lively red and green national color flavor of Russia.
While futurism praises the technological achievements of machine civilization and tries to deny the past, the metaphysical school misses the achievements of classical Italian art and pursues the philosophical meaning of painting.
Psychoanalysis focuses on the analysis of dreams, fantasies and hallucinations, and induces daydreaming as a possible method of artistic creation.
Action painting was born in the United States in the 20th century. It is an important branch of abstract expressionism, also known as “action painting”. The representative painters include Pollock and others.
Pop art is characterized by its direct borrowing of cultural symbols from commercial society, and then sublimation of artistic themes from them. Its appearance not only destroys the distinction between elegance and vulgarity that art always follows, but also changes the direction of artistic creation qualitatively.
Minimalism is a school of abstract art that is simplified to the extreme. It advocates the use of very few colors and images, also called ABC art, direct art, etc.
These 15 art schools are diverse group movements, which develop and change not only because of the aesthetic pursuit of artists within the schools and the development and change of the creation style, but also because of the mutual struggle, competition and interaction with other schools. In the struggles, contests, and functions between schools, some grow strong, while others may fade away and disappear. In general, however, the emergence of a large number of art schools, competing with each other and even fighting with each other, is an important sign of the prosperity of art, and will promote the prosperity of art.