Art Era Movement Lecture

- January 23, 2020

In this lecture, I understand the development of western art, art in different stages also expressed mixed characteristics. The European Renaissance art from the 14th to the 16th century, to adhere to the practical method and reflect the humanistic thought, created a new art most in line with the realistic humanity under the banner of tracing back to the artistic spirit of ancient Greece and Rome.

The Baroque and Rococo styles appeared in the history of western art in the 17th and 18th centuries. Subsequent 19th-century modern paintings have successively appeared in neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism.

Post-Impressionism represented by Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. Impressionism emerged in France in the late 19th century. This school of painting with innovative attitude, it opposed to the then already obsolete classical academic art concept and law, inspired by modern optics and color science, pay attention to the effect of light in painting.

The paintings of the 20th century opened Artistic innovation.Van Gogh, such as Italian Futurism, French Orphism, purism, and British vorticism, influenced later brutalism. Subsequent expressionist groups such as the German Bridge Society and the Green Knights appeared one after another, producing abstract art.

While "contemporary art" started with the end of the cold war and the beginning of globalization and informatization in 1989, contemporary art and post-modern art still have many similar characteristics in terms of artistic media and technical forms. More importantly, they have strengthened their expression in terms of language and social characteristics of the art era.

As human civilization enters the information age, the progress of science and technology not only changes People's Daily life with each passing day but also brings a series of new breakthroughs and creations to the forms of artistic expression. The changing times have made art more diverse.

1400-1550 ➡️

Early and High Renaissance