Magic Realism
A literary and visual art genre; creative fields that exhibit less significant signs of magic realism include film and music.
Magic realism was first used in 1925 by the German art critic Franz Roh to refer to a painterly style also known as Neue Sachlichkeit.
Futurism
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.Filippo Tommaso Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell'Emilia. He was soon joined by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini
Suprematism
Abstract Expressionism
The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism.
Letterism
Purism
Purism was a form of Cubism advocated by the French painter Amédée Ozenfant and the architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. Purism rejected the decorative trend of cubism and advocated a return to clear, ordered forms that were expressive of the modern machine age as documented in their 1918 book After Cubism. Neoism
It refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists, and more generally to a practical underground philosophy. It operates with collectively shared pseudonyms and identities, pranks,paradoxes, plagiarism and fakes, and has created multiple contradicting definitions of itself in order to defy categorization and historization.Neoism also gathered players with backgrounds in graffiti and street performance, language writing (later known as language poetry), experimental film and video, Mail Art, the early Church of the Subgenius and gay and lesbian culture. Graffiti
Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire times, paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials. Sometimes graffiti expresses social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based upon spray paint graffiti styles. To some, it is an art form worthy of display in galleries and exhibitions; to others it is merely vandalism.In 1979, graffiti artist Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were given a gallery opening in Rome by art dealer Claudio Bruni. For many outside of New York, it was their first encounter with the art form.The new stencil graffiti genre were created in 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne.
Toyism
Toyism is an art movement that rose to prominence in The Netherlands in the 1990s. The toyist style of painting emphasizes narrative depictions featuring figurative rather than abstract objects focusing on aspects of the human condition.
Toyism is about the group, and not the individual artists, the individual artist is refffered to a toyist, every Toyist portrays his own unique story and so adds a new dimension to Toyism.
Although Toyism is not readily captured by any one sentence or genre, it can be recognised by its figurative style. The exciting play of smooth lines with sharp boundaries, dots and the power of bright contrasting colours, gives the paintings an extremely vivacious character.
Shock Art
Shock art is a contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today".
Aa group of young British artists, made headlines nationwide for including works that offended many, such as Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary," which featured a black Virgin Mary with elephant feces on one breast and cutouts from pornographic magazines glued in the background, and Damien Hirst's dead animal's preserved in formaldehyde. As Peter Surace, co-owner of the Rare Gallery in New York, explained: "If you concentrate on the shock value of anything too much, you don't get beneath the surface to the more important issues that are trying to be raised Sometimes shock value is what the artist uses to get you to look at the work, but then they also expect you to dig deeper."
Shock Art
Shock art is a contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today".
Aa group of young British artists, made headlines nationwide for including works that offended many, such as Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary," which featured a black Virgin Mary with elephant feces on one breast and cutouts from pornographic magazines glued in the background, and Damien Hirst's dead animal's preserved in formaldehyde. As Peter Surace, co-owner of the Rare Gallery in New York, explained: "If you concentrate on the shock value of anything too much, you don't get beneath the surface to the more important issues that are trying to be raised Sometimes shock value is what the artist uses to get you to look at the work, but then they also expect you to dig deeper."
