Pictures
Painting – Impressionism.
Impressionism was originally named in an ironic form by the art critic and journalist Louis Leroy and comes from the title of Claude Monet's painting Impresja, Sunrise. It was a reaction to the first exhibition of a group of Parisian artists studying at Atelier Gleyere and …
Painting – Realism and Naturalism.
Realism – sharp style in European painting of the second half of the 19th century; started in France, it was quickly picked up across the continent. Realistic paintings are mainly genre scenes from the life of simple people, painted with simplified means …
Painting – Pre-Raphaelite.
Pre-Raphaelite (The. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) – an art society founded in London in 1848 year by students of The Royal Academy of Art: Johna Everetta Millais, William Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his brother William Michael, which they joined …
Painting – Romanticism.
Revolutionary events in the world changed art in all its manifestations. The time of Romanticism has come (1800-1840). In painting, it was expressed in sweeping brushstrokes, turbulent and dramatic theme and accentuating the artist's personality. Large expressive canvases were often created …
Painting – Classicism.
Classicism (from Latin. classicist – perfect, first-rate, exemplary, learned) , as a style referring to the achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans, reigned in the Age of Enlightenment. The fullest flowering of classicism took place at the end of the 18th century and in the first quarter of the century …