Name: Abstract art
Description: Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world
Date existed: 1911
Artists:El Lissitzky Frank Stella
Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_012.jpg
Name: Abstract Expressionism
Description:Abstract Expressionism is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism. Additionally, it has an image of being rebellious, anarchic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, nihilistic.
Date existed:World War 2
Artists:W.Kandinsky P.Mondrian
Link:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Kooning_woman_v.jpg
Name:Arts and Crafts Movement
Description:The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
Date existed:1908
Artists:William Glackens Robert Henri
Name:Classic Realism
Description:Places a high value upon skill and beauty, combining elements of 19th-century neoclassicism and realism.
Date existed:in late-20th-century
Name:Computer Art
Description: Is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork
Date existed:1969
Artists:Katherine Nash Richard Williams
Name:Cubism
Description:Cubism is a 20th century avant-garde art movement,objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.
Date existed:1906
Artists: Pablo Picasso Georges Braque
Name:Dada
Description:Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.
Date existed:1916
Artists: Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings,
Name: Digital art
Description:Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process.
Date existed:3D
Artists:Lillian Schwartz Pascal Dombis
Name:Folk art
Description:Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic
Date existed:Unknown
Artists:José Guadalupe Posada Darrel Mortimer
Name:Realism
Description: Realist or Realistic are terms that describe any manifestation of this philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers, whether in philosophy itself or in the applied arts and sciences. In this broad sense it is frequently contrasted with Idealism.
Date existed:20th-century
Artists:Devajyoti Ray Pierre Restany
