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Styles and Movements

This page is simply a list of popular style definitions for your information.

At the K'ai Men Gallery we stock many different styles and media's in order to appeal to as many people as possible.

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Abstract.
This term is applicable to work that does not seek to represent the world around us. Generally applicable to any art that does not represent recognisable objects. Any kind of stylised or non-naturalistic form can be called abstract.
Examples: Wassily Kandinsky "Swinging" and Piet Mondrian "Composition with Blue and Yellow".
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Abstract Expressionism.
Starting from a violent, Romantic, Surrealism or Expressionism - these artists came close to eliminating subject and motif, making the paint, the painting process and frequently the large scale of the canvas convey the message. This expressive method of painting is often considered as important as the paining itself. It was generally believed that the spontaneity of the artist approach to their work would release the creativity of their unconscious minds. Examples: Hans Hofmann "Apparition" or "Dairy Tale", and Jackson Pollock "Wooden Horse"
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Conceptual Art.
This term is applicable to work where it is the notion that is the "concept" behind the work rather than the technical skill of the artists in making it , that is important. The idea's or concepts" may be communicated using a variety of different media, including text, maps, diagrams, film, video or photographs as well as paintings. The resulting works can be displayed in a gallery or designed for a specific site, in some cases the landscape itself becomes an integral part of the artists work, as in Land art.
Examples:

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Cubism.
This term is applicable to work that represents objects not naturalistically in the round but as the sum of their planar facets. Cubism uses marks, blocks or patterns to build up self-sufficient composition. Although it may appear abstract and geometrical, Cubist art does in fact depict real objects. The objects are "flattened" onto the canvas so that the different sides of each shape can be shown simultaneously.
Examples: Georges Braque "Composition with the Ace of Clubs" and Pablo Picasso "Weeping Woman".
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Expressionism.
This term is applicable to works that emphasise significance and feeling at the expense of naturalistic form or perspectival space. Expressionist artists seeks to express their innermost feelings rather than representing the external world.
Examples: Oskar Kokoschka "London: Large Thames View", Franz Marc "Little Yellow Horses" and Emill Nolde "Sea and Light Clouds".
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Futurism.
Futurists are usually fascinated by modern machinery, transport and communications. Angular forms and powerful lines aer used to convey a sense of dynamism.
Examples: Metzinger "At The Cycle Race Track".
This term is also used to represent works that attempt to capture movement and speed, for example by depicting several images of the same object in slightly differing positions all together, giving the impression of a flurry of movement.
Examples: Carra "funeral of the Anarchist Galli".
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Impressionism.
This term is used to describe works that seek to depict the "impression" that natural light left on the eye. Impressionist painters are fascinated by the relationship between light and colour, usually painting in pure pigment using free brushstrokes.
Examples: Pierre Bonnard "Nude against Daylight" and Claude Monet "Waterlilies".
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Kinetic Art.
A term used to describe art incorporating real or apparent movement. The term may also be applied to works of art that use light effects to give the viewer the illusion of movement.
Examples: "Alexander Calders wind driven mobiles" or "Jean TinguelyÕs motor-operated sculptures".
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Minimalism.
This term is used to summarise the whole aesthetic of absence, requiring clean lines, seamless finish and reduction to the essential or basic element. "Less is more".
Examples:Donald Judd, Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman.
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Surrealism.
The aim of surrealism was to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality. Artists painted unnerving and illogical scenes, sometimes with photographic precision, even creating strange creatures from collections of every day objects. Their pictures while figurative, represent an alien world, whose images range from the dream-like serenity to nightmarish fantasy.
Examples: Victor Brauner "Frica as Fear", Salvador Dali, Max Ernst "Elephant of Celebes", Rene Magritte, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro "Summer" and Yves Tanguy "The Ribbon of Extremes",
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