Fauvism

Design | Dave | March 30th, 2011

Van Gogh - Country road in Provence by night

After talking about the beggings of the modern art era, we can see, that the movements started to shift away from realistic, academic art towards something more abstract. And impressionism, while broke the ice, was still a very realistic movement. Fauvism began around 1900, and it turned away from the realistic colours of impressionism and [...]

Impressionism

Design | Dave | March 16th, 2011

Claude Monet - Impression, soleil levant. The painting that gave a name to the movement.

Impressionism began to take shape in the 1860‘s and 80‘s. As we mentioned it in last week’s design history post it was a reaction to realism, or Academic art. Academic art was very refined and restricted. It used fine lines and it was absolutely full of details. The fabric of the cloths, or the walls, [...]