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Art Category Descriptions-Definitions Encyclopedia within PosterArtCollector.com ...
Below, please find defintions for the category terminolgy used within the PosterArtCollector.com web site to assist you in navigating through the 150,000+ posters, art prints and other creative items.
Abstract: The word abstract strictly speaking means to separate or withdraw something from something else. In that sense applies to art in which the artist has started with some visible object and abstracted elements from it to arrive at a more or less simplified or schematised form. Term also applied to art using forms that have no source at all in external reality. These forms are often, but not necessarily, geometric. Some artists of this tendency have preferred terms such as Concrete art or non-objective art, but in practice the word abstract is used across the board and the distinction between the two is anyway not always obvious. A cluster of theoretical ideas lies behind abstract art. The idea of art for art's sake - that art should be purely about the creation of beautiful effects. The idea that art can or should be like music - that just as music is patterns of sound, art's effects should be created by pure patterns of form, colour and line. The idea, derived from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, that the highest form of beauty lies not in the forms of the real world but in geometry. The idea that abstract art, to the extent that it does not represent the material world, can be seen to represent the spiritual. In general abstract art is seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality. Pioneers of abstract painting were Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian from about 1910-20. A pioneer of abstract sculpture was the Russian Constructivist Naum Gabo. Since then abstract art has formed a central stream of modern art. PosterArtCollector is continually expanding our Abstract Art Print and Poster offerings. Stop by PosterArtCollector.com often and acquire very nice Abstract Art Prints and Posters at affordable prices...surround yourself with beautiful art and you'll feel better! Whether it's a Limited Edition Art Print, Serigraph, Lithograph, Giclee, Poster Print or Canvas Transfer, PosterArtCollector has thousands to pick from...stop by our PosterArtCollector.com web store often and get your's today...it's fun!
Advertising: Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, personal selling and sales promotion. PosterArtCollector offers many types of advertising related vintage posters reflecting the many products and promotions that occur in a free market society. Many of these vintage advertising posters date back many decades. These are fun types of work and are great for decorating your home, office or business. The PosterArtCollector selection of advertisng posters in continually being expanded...stop by often to see new editions of vintage advertisng art posters and get yours today!
Folk Art: describes a wide range of subjects and objects that reflect on the craft traditions, history, and traditional social values, of various social groups. Folk artists are generally self-taught. For the most part, "Folk Art" would exclude works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" (or "fine art") to the society's aristocratic elite, but don't let that foll you, there are some very nice pieces of Folk Art avaialbe. PosterArtCollector ofers a variety of Posters and Art Prints in this genre.
Art Deco: Design style of 1920s and 1930s in furniture, pottery, textiles, jewellery, glass etc. It was also a notable style of cinema and hotel architecture. Named after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris in 1925. Can be seen as successor to and a reaction against Art Nouveau. Chief difference from Art Nouveau is influence of Cubism giving Art Deco design generally a more fragmented, geometric character. However, imagery based on plant forms, and sinuous curves remained in some Art Deco design, for example that of Clarice Cliff in Britain. Art Deco was in fact highly varied, showing influences from ancient Egyptian art, Aztec and other ancient Central American art, and the design of modern ships, trains and motor cars. Art Deco also drew on the modern architecture and design of the Bauhaus, and of architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van de Rohe.
Art Nouveau: Complex international style in architecture and design, parallel to Symbolism in fine art. Developed through 1890s and brought to wide audience by 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Characterised by sinuous linearity and flowing organic shapes based on plant forms. In Britain, Mackintosh contained these qualities within severe but eccentric geometry. Style exemplified by Paris Metro station entrances by Guimard, Tiffany glass, Mackintosh chairs and his Glasgow School of Art, and book designs of Beardsley, Charles Ricketts and followers such as Arthur Rackham. Flourished until killed off by First World War.
Arts and Crafts: The Arts and Crafts movement which was a social revolution veiled in a design movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, whose proponents included William Morris and Edwin Lutyens. They believed that medieval craftsmen achieved a joy and fulfillment in the excellence of their work, which they strove to emulate.
These activities are called crafts because originally many of them were professions under the guild system. Adolescents were apprenticed to a master-craftsman, and they refined their skills over a period of years in exchange for low wages. By the time their training was complete, they were well-equipped to set up in trade for themselves, earning their living with the skill that could be traded directly within the community, often for goods and services. The Industrial Revolution and the increasing mechanisation of production processes gradually reduced or eliminated many of the roles professional craftspeople played, and today 'crafts' are most commonly seen as a form of hobby or art.
Asian: Chinese art is art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. Early so-called "stone age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. This early period was followed by a series of art dynasties, most of which lasted several hundred years. The Chinese art in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and that of overseas Chinese can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on Chinese heritage and Chinese culture.
There are other types of Asian Art such as Japanese Art: Painting is the preferred artistic expression in Japan, practiced by amateur and professional alike. Until modern times, the Japanese wrote with a brush rather than a pen, and their familiarity with brush techniques has made them particularly sensitive to the values and aesthetics of painting. With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major artform and its techniques were fine tuned to produce colorful prints of everything from daily news to schoolbooks. The Japanese, in this period, found sculpture a much less sympathetic medium for artistic expression; most Japanese sculpture is associated with religion, and the medium's use declined with the lessening importance of traditional Buddhism.
Other types of Asian art include Buddist Art, Korean Art, Tibetan Art, Laotian Art, and
Thai Art.
Classical: Pertaining to the arts (painting, sculpture, music, literature, etc.), the word "classical" often refers to the period of art or style known as Classicism, which has a high regard for classical antiquity. This style predominated in the 18th and early 19th centuries between the Baroque and Romantic periods.
Contemporary: usually refers to art of our own day, as distinct from modern art (or Modernism), which refers to a form of art characteristic of the period since c1900. In some contexts it is a synonym for Modernism. In other contexts it means the host of influences, events and questions which are still being actively debated. Many people regard the present as being Postmodern, and part of the Information Age, while others see it as being in the Modern period, with post-modernity being a reaction against the general modern trend.
Cubism: was probably the most important and influential art movement since the Italian Renaissance; it was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century.
In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form � instead of rendering objects from a single fixed angle, the artist depicts the subject from multiple angles simultaneously as an attempt to present the subject in the most complete manner. Often the surfaces of the facets, or planes, intersect at angles that show no recognizable depth. The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one another creating the ambiguous shallow space characteristic of cubism.
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, then residents of the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, began working on the development of Cubism in 1908. They met in 1907, and worked closely together until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
French art critic Louis Vauxcelles first used the term "cubism" "(bizarre cubiques)" in 1908. This was after seeing a picture by Braque and describing it as 'full of little cubes' after which, the term was in wide use but the two creators of cubism refrained from using it for a quite some time.
The cubism movement expanded by the gathering of artists in Montparnasse, and was promoted by art dealer Henry Kahnweiler. It became popular so quickly that by 1910 critics were referring to a "cubist school" of artists influenced by Braque and Picasso. However, many other artists who thought of themselves as cubists went in directions quite different from Braque and Picasso, who themselves went through several distinct phases before 1920. The Puteaux Group, an offshoot of the Cubist movement, to which artists like Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand L�ger belonged, also became famous.
Cubism influenced artists of the first decades of the 20th century and it gave rise to development of new trends in art like futurism, constructivism, vorticism and expressionism.
Dada: Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Z�rich, Switzerland during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by nihilism, deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, chance, randomness, and the rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
According to its proponents, Dada was not art�it was "anti-art". For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning � interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. It is perhaps then ironic that Dada became an influential movement in modern art. Dada became a commentary on order and carnage they believed it reaped. Through this rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.
Decorative: Is just what it says...ornate or flashy, pretty to the eyes. There can be different themes of decorative art according to different periods of time.
Drawing: Posters and Prints that relect drawing instead of painting or tpther means of image creation. There are many various types of drawings. A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually written on paper.
Giclèes: A type of printing used to make art prints digitally. Giclèe printng has been around since the very late 1980s and early 1990's. It is now an accepted method of art printing/publishing. The term Giclèe loosely defined is French for the spraying of ink. We are proud to feature many differnet and diverse Giclèe Prints.
Impressionism: was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). Critic Louis Leroy inadvertently coined the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari.
The influence of Impressionist thought spread beyond the art world, leading to Impressionist music and Impressionist literature.
Characteristics of impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles.
Impressionism also describes art done in this style, but outside of the late 19th century time period.
Movies: Movie Posters are very popular today as they were i the past. they reflect the characters and themes of movies both popular and unpopular.
Music: Music Art is all over the board from a style standpoint. It can be of instruments, the musicians themselves, or anything else that pertains to the subject of music.
Limited Editions: Limited Edition Art Prints mean exactly that. There is a specified number of prints that are part of an edition. An edition might be 100, 200, 100 or even 10. Whatever the artist or publisher assigns. Usually the lower the number the more valuable or collectible the print is. When the overall edition number is lower that usuallty equates to increased value as well as price.
Naïve/Primitive: Na�ve art is created by untrained artists. It is characterized by simplicity and a lack of the elements or qualities found in the art of formally trained artists. (See also, outsider art, with which it bears many similarities.)
The term na�ve art presumes the existence (by contrast) of an academy and of a generally accepted educated manner of art creation, most often painting. In practice, however, there are schools of na�ve artists. Over time it has become an acceptable style.
The characteristics of na�ve art are an awkward relationship to the formal qualities of painting; for example, difficulties with drawing and perspective that result in a charmingly awkward and often refreshing vision; strong use of pattern, unrefined colour, and simplicity rather than subtlety are all supposed markers of naive art. It has become such a popular and recognisable style that many examples could be called pseudo-na�ve.
Primitive art is another term often applied to the art of those without formal training. This is distinguished from the self-conscious movement primitivism. Another term related to, but not completely synonymous with, na�ve art, is folk art.
Neoclassicism: (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the arts. These movements were in effect at various times between the 18th and the 20th centuries.
What any "neo"-classicism depends on most fundamentally is a consensus about a body of work that has achieved canonic status (These are the "classics." Ideally� and neoclassicism is essentially an art of an ideal� an artist, well-schooled and comfortably familiar with the canon, does not repeat it in lifeless reproductions, but synthesizes the tradition anew in each work. This sets a high standard, clearly; but though a neoclassical artist who fails to achieve it may create works that are inane, vacuous or even mediocre, gaffes of taste and failures of craftsmanship are not commonly neoclassical failings. Novelty, improvisation, self-expression, and blinding inspiration are not neoclassical virtues; neoclassicism exhibits perfect control of an idiom. It does not recreate art forms from the ground up with each new project, as modernism demanded. "Make it new" was the modernist credo of the poet Ezra Pound.
Photography: is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. It involves recording light patterns, as reflected from objects, onto a sensitive medium through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical or digital devices commonly known as cameras.
During the twentieth century, both fine art photography and documentary photography became accepted by the English-speaking art world and the gallery system. In the United States, a small handful of curators spent their lives advocating to put photography in such a system, with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, and Hugh Edwards the most prominent among them.
Yet the aesthetics of photography is a matter that continues to be discussed regularly, especially in artistic circles. Many artists argued that photography was the mechanical reproduction of an image. If photography is authentically art, then photography in the context of art would need redefinition, such as determining what component of a photograph makes it beautiful to the viewer.
Pop Art: was a visual artistic movement that emerged in the late 1950s in England and the United States. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from mass culture, such as advertising and comic books, Pop Art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so. However, much pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult to comprehend.
The term was coined in 1958 by British critic Laurence Alloway (in response to works by Richard Hamilton, among others) and a "pop" movement was widely recognized by the mid-1960s. In the meantime, the movement was sometimes called Neo-Dada, a name which reveals some of the thinking behind this type of art, and the strong influence of dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp on such seminal pop figures as Hamilton, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol.
Realism: In the visual arts and literature, Realism started as a cultural movement in France as a reaction to the idealism of Romanticism in the middle of the 19th century in a cultural climate of demands for social and politcal reform and democracy. Realism dominated the arts in France, England and the United States from around 1840 to 1880.
Gustave Courbet. Burial at Ornans. 1849-1850. Musee d'Orsay, Paris.The realists sought to render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and events; all in an "accurate" (or realistic) manner. Realism began as a reaction to romanticism, which treated subjects idealistically. Realists tended to discard theatrical drama and classical forms of art to depict commonplace or 'realistic' themes.
The main groups associated with realism are the Realists who depended on scientific facts, and with nature and life around them rather than creating idealistic works of art (romanticism), a group of French landscape artists who emphasized art constructed from nature known as the Barbizon School, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which praised art before Raphael, who lived in a time where art was quite idealized.
Trompe l'oeil, a technique which creates the illusion that the objects depicted actually exist, is an extreme example of artistic realism.
Renaissance: The Renaissance was a social, cultural and economic revolution which began a period of scientific revolution, religious reform, artistic and architectural development, and philosophical openness, and marks the beginning of modern European history. It occurred at the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Modern Age. The Renaissance is usually considered to have originated in the late 13th century in Lombardy in northern Italy and extends to the mid 15th century in northern Europe. What was reborn was, in essence the ideal of Classical Ancient Greece and more importantly, Rome.
Rococo: The Rococo style of art emerged in France in the early 18th century as a continuation of the Baroque style, but in contrast to the heavier themes and darker colors of the Baroque, the Rococo was characterized by an opulence, grace, playfulness, and lightness. Rococo motifs focused on the carefree aristocratic life and on lighthearted romance rather than heroic battles or religious figures; they also revolve heavily around nature and exterior settings. In the mid-late 18th century, rococo was surpassed by the Neoclassic style.
The word Rococo was apparently a combination of the French rocaille, or shell, and the Italian barocco, or Baroque style. Due to Rococo love of shell-like curves and focus on decorative arts, some critics used the term to derogatively imply that the style was frivolous or merely fashion. Since the mid 19th century, though, the term has been accepted by art historians. While there is still some debate about the art historical significance of the style, rococo is now widely recognized as a major period in the development of European art.
Romanticism: was a secular and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. It stressed strong emotion (which now might include trepidation, awe, and horror as aesthetic experiences), the individual imagination as a critical authority (which permitted freedom within or from classical notions of form in art), and overturning of previous social conventions, particularly the position of the aristocracy. There was a strong element of historical and natural inevitability in its ideas, stressing the awe of "nature" in art and language and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature. An influence upon the Romantic movement by the ideologies and events of the French Revolution is thought to have characterized the movement. Romanticism is also noted for its elevation of the achievements of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society altogether. It followed the Enlightenment period and was in part inspired by a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms from the previous period, as well as a reaction against the rationalism of nature by the Enlightenment.
In a general sense, Romanticism refers to several distinct groups of artists, poets, writers, musicians, political, philosophical and social thinkers and trends of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe. But a precise characterization and a specific description of Romanticism have been objects of intellectual history and literary history for all of the twentieth century without any great measure of consensus emerging. Arthur Lovejoy attempted to demonstrate the difficulty of this problem in his seminal article "On The Discrimination of Romanticisms" in his Essays in the History of Ideas (1948); some scholars see romanticism as completely continuous with the present, some see it as the inaugural moment of modernity, some see it as the beginning of a tradition of resistance to the Enlightenment, and still others date it firmly in the direct aftermath of the French Revolution.
Serigraphs: A Serigraph is a type of art print. The process used to print Serigraphs is Silk Screen. There are many beautifully created Serigraphs and many are printed on vry high quality art papers. Serigraphs hold solid colors very well due to the nature of screen printing. The process has been around for decades.
Southwestern: Southwestern Art is a style of art prevelant in the desert Southwest of the United States, particularly centered in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Arizona. It usually reflects the geographic shapes and colors of the desert southwest or the mountain areas. The colors can often be very bright and brilliant. It draws from the Native American heritage and past. Reflecting not only the people, but the animals that inhabit the southwest. The art itself can be very stylistic.
Surrealism: is more often considered a movement in visual arts than the original cultural and philosophical movement. As with some other movements that had both philosophical and artistic dimensions, such as romanticism and minimalism, the relationship between the two usages is complex and a matter of some debate outside the movement. Many Surrealist artists regarded their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, and Breton was explicit in his belief that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement. In addition, many surrealists and surrealist documents have declared that surrealism is not an artistic movement for a number of additional reasons, among which is the conception of the "artistic" manifestations of surrealism as just one form of manifestation among many, various conceptions of visual work being created which somehow "goes beyond" traditional conceptions of art or aesthetics, or even the complete cessation of creative visual production. In addition, the art object/product - while an important part of the Surrealist process - is viewed as merely a "souvenir" of a vastly more critical journey, interesting only in so far as it is revelatory of that adventure.
Since so many of the artists involved in Surrealism came from the Dada movement, the demarcation between Surrealist and Dadaist art, as with the demarcation between Surrealism and Dada in general, is a line drawn differently by different scholars.
The roots of Surrealism in the visual arts run to both Dada and Cubism, as well as the abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky and Expressionism, as well as Post-Impressionism. However, it was not the particulars of technique which marked the Surrealist movement in the visual arts, but an the creation of objects from the imagination, from automatism, or from a number of Surrealist techniques.
Masson's automatic drawings of 1923, are often used as a convenient point of difference, since these reflect the influence of the idea of the unconscious mind.
Victorian: The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. It is often defined as the years from 1837 to 1901, when Queen Victoria (often refered to as the greatest and most beloved of all the British monarchs) reigned, though many historians believe that the passage of the Reform Act 1832 marks the true inception of a new cultural era. The Victorian era was preceded by the Regency era and came before the Edwardian period. Victoria also had one of the longest, if not the longest, reigns in British history.
Viennese and Expressionism: is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, architecture and music. Additionally, the term often implies emotional angst - the number of cheerful expressionist works is relatively small.
In this general sense, painters such as Matthias Gr�newald and El Greco can be called expressionist, though in practice, the term is applied mainly to 20th century works.
More generally it refers to art that is expressive of intense emotion. It is arguable that all artists are expressive but there is a long line of art production in which heavy emphasis is placed on communication through emotion. Such art often occurs during time of social upheaval, and through the tradition of graphic art there is a powerful and moving record of turmoil in Europe from the 15th century on
Giclèes: A type of printing used to make art prints digitally. Giclèe printng has been around since the very late 1980s and early 1990's. It is now an accepted method of art printing/publishing. The term Giclèe loosely defined is French for the spraying of ink. We are proud to feature many differnet and diverse Giclèe Prints.
Serigraphs: A Serigraph is a type of art print. The process used to print Serigraphs is Silk Screen. There are many beautifully created Serigraphs and many are printed on vry high quality art papers. Serigraphs hold solid colors very well due to the nature of screen printing. The process has been around for decades.
