Different art styles and movements through the years

The origin of art history can be traced back to thousands of years when ancient civilizations used available ways and mediums to portray culturally significant subjects. Since those times, a plethora of new art movements has come to be, each having their own distinct styles and characteristics that reflect the socio-economic environment of the period from which they emerged.

Abstract Expressionism 

Abstract Expressionism incorporates a wide assortment of American twentieth-century craftsmanship developments and is typically portrayed by enormous unique painted materials. Otherwise called The New York School, this development in abstract art incorporates sculptures and other mediums. The term action painting is related to abstract expressionism, portraying a direct and exceptionally unique sort of art that includes the unconstrained utilization of lively, sweeping brushstrokes and the impacts of trickling and spilling paint onto the material.

Art Nouveau is an enhancing style that thrived somewhere from 1890 to 1910 all through Europe and the U.S.  Art Nouveau, also called Jugendstil in Germany and Sezessionstil in Austria, is portrayed by crooked, topsy-turvy lines based on natural structures. Although it influenced painting and sculpting, its central appearances or uses were in architecture and the enriching of graphic arts, liberated from the imitative theory that ruled a lot of nineteenth-century art developments and plans. 

Avant-garde originates from the French term meaning “advanced guard’ and alludes to inventive or experimental ideas, works of the artists making them, especially in the domains of culture and governmental issues. This movement was progressive and tried many new ways to enhance artistic creations.

Pop Art is the newest addition of art styles to emerge. It started in the 1950s, with British and American artists who were inspired by ‘popular’ representation and products from then popular, commercial culture, as opposed to the ‘elitist’ arts. Pop art really made an impact in the 1960s by emphasizing mundane elements of everyday life in many forms like mechanically reproduced silkscreens, soft pop art sculptures, etc. Bright contrasting colors mixed with popular figures were presented in a way that was never seen before and marked its impact with artists like Andy Warhol practicing it and incorporating these designs into many fashion and lifestyle brands.