From Dreamtime to Masterpieces, let’s embark on a journey through Australian & Aboriginal Artistry.
Baroque is a term used to describe the many different art forms created in Europe and Latin America. The style began to emerge in Italy in the 1500’s, but it wasn’t until the 1600’s that the baroque movement swept through the rest of Europe. In the 1700’s, baroque art began to appear in colonial Latin…
Figurative art is the term given to all art that is representational of figures, animals, and other natural or man-made objects. It is an art style which is strongly connected to the rules of perspective, proportion, anatomy and volume. Life drawing with a nude model is regarded an important foundation to figurative art. In many…
Modernism refers to the style and ideology of art produced between the 1860s and the 1970s. As traditional art forms had become outdated due to industrialisation, the modernism art movement emerged in Western Europe out of a need to reject tradition and embrace the political, social, and economic change of the industrial age. Modernism &…
Academic art flourished in Europe from the 17th to the 19th century and is closely associated with Neoclassical art. The art movement is characterised by a highly sophisticated style, frequent use of mythological and historical subject matter, and a general moralistic tone. Academie des beaux-arts Though Academic Art is said to be the style of…
While symbols have long been used in the visual arts to intensify meaning, transmit messages and bring subjectivity to a work, Symbolism flourished as an art movement between 1885 and 1910. Emerging in France, Symbolist art rejected both Realism and Impressionism and served to extend the private movement of Decadence and Romantic tradition of mysticism…
Surrealism is a twentieth century avant-garde art movement that developed out of the nihilistic ideas of the Dadaists. Led by the French writer Andre Breton, who wrote The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, the Surrealists were inspired by the thoughts and visions of the subconscious mind. According to Breton, Surrealism reunited the realms of dream and…
Minimalism began in the United States in the 1960’s, but the movement influenced modern art around the world. Minimalism mostly refers to painting, sculpture, and installation work. However, minimalism can refer to any art form that uses the barest essentials. The movement has also been referred to as minimal art, ABC art, reductivism, and rejective…
Abstract Expressionism began in the mid-1940’s in New York City and flourished through the 1950’s. The movement was regarded by many as the golden age of American art. At that time, New York replaced Paris as the crux of the contemporary art movement. Even today, abstract expressionism continues to influence artists around the world, including…
Exhibited in painting, literature, film, architecture and music Expressionism is the term used to describe any art form that distorts reality to produce a highly emotional effect. A subjective art form, Expressionism is characterised by symbolic colours, distorted forms, a two-dimensional careless manner, and larger-than-life imagery. Acting as the opposite of Impressionism, this art movement…