http://www.artrev.com/ Art 101 - The Essential Guide. en-us ARTREV.COM RSS Service 1.1.0.0 1440 http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=66&cmd=showarticle" Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:37:42 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=66&cmd=showarticle" Abstract Expressionism is an art movement in mid-20th-century painting that was primarily concerned with the spontaneous assertion of the individual through the act of painting. The movement contai... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=65&cmd=showarticle" Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:10:44 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=65&cmd=showarticle" Rococo is a style of 18th-century painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation. The rococo period corresponded roughly to the reign (1715-74) of King L... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ROCOCO" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=64&cmd=showarticle" Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:03:04 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=64&cmd=showarticle" Aboriginal Art is the art of the Aboriginal Australians. Traditionally almost entirely religious and ceremonial, it was directed toward portraying stories of the Dreaming, a creation mythology refl... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ABORIGINAL ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=63&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:54:42 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=63&cmd=showarticle" Photography is so much a part of life today that the average person in the United States may encounter more than 1000 camera images a day. Photographs preserve personal memories (family snapshots) ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=62&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:44:09 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=62&cmd=showarticle" The urge to make graphic images can be traced back to prehistoric times. The cave paintings which are among the very earliest surviving traces of the pictorial instincts of mankind define the begin... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ESSAY: THE IMPACT OF PHOTOGRAPHY" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=61&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:08:14 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=61&cmd=showarticle" Paleolithic Art is art produced from about 32,000 to 11,000 years ago, during the Stone Age. It falls into two main categories: portable pieces, such as small figurines or decorated objects, and ca... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "PALEOLITHIC ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=60&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:57:13 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=60&cmd=showarticle" Kinetic Art is a form of art, usually sculpture, in which movement plays a primary role. The source of this movement can be mechanical, the natural motion of surrounding air currents, or an interac... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "KINETIC ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=59&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:44:35 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=59&cmd=showarticle" Op Art is a style of abstract painting that made use of optical illusions and other striking visual effects. Emerging in the United States in the mid-1960s, op art generally took the form of bright... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "OP ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=58&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:34:11 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=58&cmd=showarticle" The Renaissance in Europe (1300 - 1600)
The Renaissance, a period of remarkable achievements in European culture, begins in Italy. Characterized by a renewed interest in c... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "MAJOR ART MOVEMENTS AND EVENTS - TIMELINE" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=57&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:05:23 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=57&cmd=showarticle" Sculpture (Latin sculpere,"to carve"), three-dimensional art concerned with the organization of masses and volumes. The two principal types have traditionally been freestanding sculpture ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "SCULPTURE" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=56&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:49:30 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=56&cmd=showarticle" Futurism, early 20th-century movement in art that pointedly rejected all traditions and attempted instead to glorify contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing its two dominant themes, the machine an... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "FUTURISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=55&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:45:57 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=55&cmd=showarticle" Fauvism is a relatively short-lived movement in French painting (from about 1898 to about 1908) that revolutionized the concept of color in modern art. The fauves rejected the impressionist palette... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "FAUVISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=54&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:36:55 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=54&cmd=showarticle" The two basic categories of prints are those that are made photomechanically, such as newspaper and magazine illustrations or reproductions of original art sold in museum shops and other stores, an... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "PRINTS AND PRINTMAKING" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=53&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:41:49 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=53&cmd=showarticle" Romanticism is a European and American art movement extending from about 1800 to 1850. Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style, technique, or attitude, but romantic painting is general... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ROMANTICISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=52&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:25:47 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=52&cmd=showarticle" Modern Art is a term given to painting, sculpture, and other forms of 20th-century art. Although scholars disagree as to precisely when the modern period began, they mostly use the term modern art ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "MODERN ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=51&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:57:00 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=51&cmd=showarticle" Pop Art is a visual arts movement of the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United States and Britain. The images of pop art (shortened from "popular art") were taken from mass culture. ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "POP ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=50&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:45:05 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=50&cmd=showarticle" Illustration is any pictorial material appearing with or without text. Although illustrations may be maps, charts, diagrams, or decorative elements, they are more usually representations of scenes... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ILLUSTRATION" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=49&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:30:17 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=49&cmd=showarticle" Expressionism, in the visual, literary, and performing arts, is a movement or tendency that strives to express subjective feelings and emotions rather than to depict reality or nature objectively. ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "EXPRESSIONISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=48&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:21:36 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=48&cmd=showarticle" Impressionism is a movement in painting that originated in France in the late 19th century. Impressionist painters were considered radical in their time because they broke many of the rules of pict... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "IMPRESSIONISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=47&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:05:49 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=47&cmd=showarticle" Cubism, movement in modern art, especially in painting, invented by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in 1907 and 1908. Although the look of cubism and the ideas behind ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "CUBISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=46&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:52:37 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=46&cmd=showarticle" Art Nouveau (from French for “new art”), movement in Western art and design, which reached its peak during the 1890s. Hallmarks of the art nouveau style are flat, decorative patterns; intertwined o... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ART NOUVEAU" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=45&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:40:27 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=45&cmd=showarticle" Art Deco, style popular in the 1920s and 1930s, used primarily in the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, and interior decor. Art deco is characterized by sleek, streamlined forms; geometric p... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ART DECO" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=44&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:25:24 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=44&cmd=showarticle" Surrealism, artistic and literary movement that explored and celebrated the realm of dreams and the unconscious mind through the creation of visual art, poetry, and motion pictures. Surrealism was ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "SURREALISM" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=43&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:51:04 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=43&cmd=showarticle" When people ask, "What is Art?" or state that something "is not art," they usually are not seeking a philosophical definition but are instead expressing an opinion that a painti... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ENJOYMENT OF ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=42&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:43:12 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=42&cmd=showarticle" Art history is the study of works of art in their historical context. Styles change through time and artists introduce new materials, techniques, subject matter, and purposes for art. Art historian... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "STUDY OF ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=41&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:02:10 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=41&cmd=showarticle" Through most of its history, art has served a variety of purposes: to honor the dead, to recall the appearance of rulers or relatives, to give visual form to gods, to create sacred places, to displ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "PURPOSES OF ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=40&cmd=showarticle" Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:24:44 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=40&cmd=showarticle" We categorize art for the sake of understanding and interpretation: It is easiest to compare and make connections between works that are similar in fundamental ways. Painting, sculpture, and archit... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "TYPES OF ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=38&cmd=showarticle" Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:46:38 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=38&cmd=showarticle" To talk about art we need to describe it precisely. One way to begin is to think about how the artist has created the forms we see. Color, line, shape, texture, and shading are some of the elements... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "ELEMENTS OF ART" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=20&cmd=showarticle" Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:37:58 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=20&cmd=showarticle" Art, the product of creative human activity in which materials are shaped or selected to convey an idea, emotion, or visually interesting form. The word art can refer to the visual arts, including ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

SEE THE FULL ARTICLE "WHAT IS ART?" ON ARTREV.COM]]> http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=19&cmd=showarticle" Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:17:25 EST http://www.artrev.com/account/learning/art101/index.asp?arid=19&cmd=showarticle" Abstract Expressionism: American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized form and color within a nonrepresentational framework. Jackson Pollock initiated the revolutionary ... (Continued on ArtRev.com Learning Center)

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