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Abstract  Expressionism A 1940s New York city based movement made up of  artists expressing themselves with their brushes  with splashes of paint on canvases,  that put New York on a globally  recognised scale in the  art arena . Strongly defined by earlier art movements combined into one major one, as the name suggests this movement was a mixture of "expressionism" and "abstraction". Expressionism being a movement that spanned from 1905    til about  1933, hailing art legends that produced artworks like " The Scream classed with famous names with the likes of Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily  Kandinsky , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to name a few. - Expressionism believing in portraying the artist's emotions and experiences and represented through the artwork was also divided by sectors much like abstract expressionism. (theartstory.org, 2017) - Abstraction was a term defined as a random depiction that does not r...
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P O P A R T The movement that believed in everyday people  across all cultures. 1958 - 1972 Incepting from abstract expressionist's art which was highly dependant on the artist's subjective feeling and sensations, Pop art drew its inspiration from simple objects that ranged from the decoration of soup cans, plates,comic strips and even beverage can containers to name a few. According to ( artmovements/co.uk )  Applied on boring and uninteresting things, it gave life to dull objects. Inspiring people to take notice and appreciate objects they wouldn't have normally paid attention to, packaging design boomed in the process. The celebration of mass media and its impact for communication was an important trait pop artists took seriously. Besides abstract expressionism as an influence, Dada was also a feature and its philosophies seeped into the POP ART principle. Pop art in itself aimed to spread and understood everywhere. Wanting to represent itself as a y...
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Constructivism The movement all about your own understanding 1915-1940 An abstract art movement based in Russia and founded by: Vladimir Tatlin Alexander Rodchenko Further artists involved in this avante garde movement included the following Alexandra Exter, Wassily Kadinsky ,  Alexander Rodchenko,  Robert Adams  ,El Lissitzky Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.  What made an Constructivist Artwork ? Having slight resemblances to the futurist fundamentals and treatment of artwork as well as the viewpoint on life constructivists artists believed ion conveying the importance of organisation in the mechanical, physical or man-made materials they used as well as the artwork having to work together not in just parts but instead as a whole object or a complete unit. Vladimir, who believed that art should be constructed rather that just thought of, really made making art made the idea of rejecting (autonomous art) which was seen as when the artist does not care or represent...
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All you need to know about The Style (De Stijl)

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The Style (De St ij l) An abstraction movement that spanned from 1917 up to the late 1930's as a reaction to the over decoration and complicated structure resembled by the Art Deco movement, but allowing hints of inspired works from Dada , Suprematism and shape treatment from the Cubist 's movement De Stijl was there to revamp and get back to the basics of art and breaking it down to its simplest and fundamental forms.(designhistory.com) A Dutch based movement led by artists by the name of  Theo Van Doesburg Piet Mondrian Gerrit Reitveld This collaboration of writers, architects, painters and art critics aimed to deconstruct art and represent it with the most basic principles and values that were harmony and order.( designhistory.com) reports. Piet Mondrian, Composition A (1920), source: cloudfront.net Like many movements that came before "The Style" it published its own public declaration that was written by Van Doesburg as a cont...
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