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 [...]
Symbolism began in the middle of the 19th century, and it started in France, Russia and Belgium. Mostly it is considered as a literary art, and it blossomed in poetry – such known names are for example Baudelaire (and the Les Fleurs du mal), Verlaine or Rimbaud. But beside the poetry symbolism influenced art also. [...]
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, [...]
This wide movement started in the middle of the 19th century, and it was an answer to the strict rules of realism. It wasn’t only peculiar to art, but we will concentrate on this aspect. Modernism, or positivism also reacted on the exaggerated subjectivism of romanticism. In this instead of keeping the rules and the tradition [...]
