in The Art Room: Art Styles

An art style ( also known as as art movement ) is a drift or style in art with a specific shared philosophy or objective. It is followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement more or less strictly so restricted.

They were especially imperative in modern art, where each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde ( french term used to refer to people or works that are new or fresh, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics )

As scores of art movements use the -ism suffix, they are sometimes referred to as isms. The list of art styles are aplenty, and I chose these three art styles to cover on.

Naive Art

I'm sure everyone were once a artist before, when they were young. Taking that brush in your hand and just painting random, innocent strokes and scribbles. It looked like nothing, but that kind of style is a kind of art too.

Ivan Rabuzin: Dawn, 1963

Fresh, childlike style of painting, employing bright colours and strong, rhythmic designs. It is usually the work of self-taught artists with no formal training, and is less technical in approach.

The characteristics of naïve 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 naïve art. It has become such a popular and recognisable style that many examples could be called pseudo-naïve.

Franjo Filipovic: Winter

Outstanding naive artist include Henry Darger (1892-1973) and Camille Bombois (1883-1970).

Pejzaž: Landscape,1939

The term is also used todescribe the work of qualified artists who utilize naive techniques and effects. One such example is L S Lowry (1887-1976). Over time it has become an acceptable style.

Naive artists are also known as primitives, although primitive painting should not be confused with primitive art or Primitivism (the artworks of indigenous African, Oceanic, and American cultures, or Western folk art).

Pointillism

Another style of painting is Pointillism, the method of in which small distinct points of primary colours create the notion of a wide variety of secondary and intermediate colors. It is an outcome of Impressionism, and is usually categorized as a form of Post-Impressionism.

This technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the colour spots into a fuller range of tones and is related closely to Divisionism, a more technical variant of the method.

The term "Pointillism" was first coined with respect to the work of Georges Seurat, and he is the artist most closely associated with the movement. It is a style with few serious practitioners and is particularly seen in the works of Lemmen, Signac, and Cross. Pointillism is considered to have been an influence on Fauvism.

The practice of Pointillism is in sharp contrast to the more common method of blending pigments on a palette or using the many commercially available premixed colors. The latter is analogous to the CMYK or four-colour printing process used by personal color printers and large presses; Pointillism is not analogous to the colors and process used by computer monitors and television sets to produce colors; the latter uses green and no yellow at all to produce colors from green through orange as well as gray, brown and black.

There is also an advanced level of Pointillism called Hyper Pointillism ( excessive pointillism ). There is currently only one known artist in the world who practices this - Niall Young.

Some of his works,

Niall Young: Reflections - Elvaston Castle

Niall Young: Derby Arboretum - In the Snow

It looks just like two normal paintings, but indeed, those two were created by dots!

Last buy not least, we have...

Street Art

Any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" is known as street art though the term usually refers to art of an illegitimate nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives.

The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, and street installations are all categorized as Street Art. Naturally, Street Art is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.

Techniques

Whereas traditional graffiti artists have primarily used free-hand aerosol paints to produce their works, "street art" includes many other media such as wheatpasting, stickers, stencil graffiti, mosaic tiling, video projection and street installations.

For these reasons street art is sometimes considered "post-graffiti" and sometimes even "neo-graffiti". Street art can be found around the world and street artists often travel to other countries foreign to them so they can spread their designs.

Street Artists
Street artists such as Banksy, Swoon, Judith Supine, Neckface and Os Gemeos have warrented global attention for their work and in turn migrated the showing of their works to the museum or gallery setting as well as the street. It is also not uncommon for street artists to achieve commercial success doing graphics for other companies or starting their own merchandising lines.

Key Locations
Melbourne (Australia) is home to some of the world's best street art. There are a number of important sites across the Central Business District (CBD). One of the most colourful being Hosier Lane near Federation Square.

Below are some street art:

Charcoal wall drawing by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

It's wonderful how the artist can maintain his skill and style in such large-scale drawings. Not only that, the final work really looks real and living, almost breathing.

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