FOUR PAINTING STYLES

IN ART

Four Painting Styles in Art

REALISM
EXPRESSIONISM
ABSTRACT
SURREALISM

Idealism- 1400s1700s

Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
c. 1484-86

Only Gods and Goddesses were

depicted nude. Artists were
inspired by their them, depicting
their stories of mythology as a way
to pay tribute to their lasting
immortality.

Immortal

Idealism- 1400s1700s
Flawless

Religious icons were

depicted as holy and
flawless. Even though they
may have been poor, their
robes have no tear, no hair
out of place, or skin with a
wrinkle or facial
imperfection.

Raffaello Sanzio aka RAPHAEL

Idealism- 1400s1700s
Beauty and
Perfection

Royalty and high society were

depicted as strong leaders or of
having great power. Some are made
to look very tall with flowing robes of
the most exquisite fabric. Everything
seems to flow or pose perfectly as if
this is how they are on a normal
basis.

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Louis XIV of France in his
Coronation Robes
1701-02

THE DAWN OF REALISM

REALISM1600s- early 1900s

Mortality

Realists began to depict

the way things are or the
truth. Here in the insane
woman, suffering and
madness amounts to
nature, for nature in the
end is formless and
destructiveleads to
death.

Theodore Gericault
Insane Woman
1822-1823

REALISM1600s- early 1900s

Imperfection
Pitcher left open,
lemon partly
peeled, table cloth
with creases and
wrinkled on only
the right side of
the table with
plates at its
edgeimperfect.

Willem Claesz
Heda
"Banquet Piece
with Mince Pie
1600s

REALISM1600s- early 1900s

Daily Life
Realists also
depict the
everyday life of
everyday people.
No longer are
artists painting
only the rich or
mythological
subjects, they may
also be recording
the daily struggles,
hardships of hard
working people.

Jean Francois
Millet
The Gleaners
1857

EXPRESSIO
NISM

EXPRESSIO
NISM
Symbolic

"My whole life has been spent walking by

the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping
from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to
leave my narrow path and join the swirling
mainstream of life, but I always find myself
drawn inexorably back towards the
chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until
the day I finally fall into the abyss. For as
long as I can remember I have suffered
from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have
tried to express in my art. Without anxiety
and illness I should have been like a ship
without a rudder. -Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch
The Scream
1893

EXPRESSIO
NISM
Painterly

Van Gogh depicts

the night sky as
whirling and
exploding stars in
a painterly fashion
where heavily
seen brushstrokes
mark the
movement of the
sky and the town
below.

Vincent Van
Gogh
A Starry, Starry
Night
1889

EXPRESSIO
NISM
Color

Vibrant colors not

only dominate the
Expressionist style
but also creates the
mood for the
viewer.

Abstract
1900-1940s

abstract
Flat and Simple
This painting portrays continuous
movement through a chain of
overlapping cubistic figures.
Abstraction offers the viewer a
delineated image showing only the
most important aspect of it (lines,
shapes, color, movement, etc.) not in
full detail.

Marcell Duchamp

Nude Descending a
Staircase
1913-1920 France

abstract
Non-representational
Cubism, a type of non-representational art
(or abstract) is essentially the fragmenting
of three-dimensional forms into flat areas
of pattern and color, overlapping and
intertwining so that shapes and parts of the
human anatomy are seen from the front
and back at the same time.

Pablo Picasso
Three Musicians
1921, Spain

abstract
Scientific

Mondrian, a Dutch artist, wanted

the infinite, and shape is finite. A
straight line is infinitely extendable,
and the open-ended space between
two parallel straight lines is infinitely
extendable.

Piet Mondrian
Composition with Large
Blue Plane, Red, Black,
Yellow, and Gray
1921

Surrealism- beyond real

Surrealism
Transformation
and Ambiguity
The idea of transforming from one
form to another is a common
characteristic of Surrealism.
Another surreal device is
ambiguity; unclear, undetermined.

Salvador Dali
Study for Woman, Lion,
Horse
1929-31

Surrealism
Levitation
Levitation, or
appearance of
floating, creates a
fantasy, dreamlike,
and surreal
landscape.

Rene Magritte
Golconde,
1953

Surrealism
Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is the putting together

of two forms that do not normally go
together such as Magrittes
locomotive coming out of a
chimney. I decided to paint the image of
a locomotive . . . In order for its mystery to
be evoked, another immediately familiar
image without mystery the image of a
dining room fireplace was joined. Magritte

Rene Magritte
Time Transfixed, 1938

OTHER STYLES IN ART

CLASSICISM
ROMANTICISM
NEOCLASSICISM
BAROQUE
PHOTOREALISM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
ART NOUVEAU
IMPRESSIONISM
FAUVISM
CUBISM
CLOISSONISM
NEOIMPRESSIONISM
OP ART
PRIMIITIVE
POINTILLISM
DADAISM
CONSTRUCTIVISM
DECONSTRUCTIVISM
ORIENTALISM

POSTMODERNISM
MODERNISM
NAVE ART
ROMANTIC REALISM
SOCIAL REALISM
FUTURISM
SUPREMATISM
POP ART
IDOLATRY
PRE-CLASSICAL
BARBARIAN
MADHUBANI
RAJPUT
MUGHAL
TANJORE
BENGAL
GRAFFITTI
HARD EDGE
MANNERISM
MINIMALISM

FOUR STYLES
OF PAINTING ACTIVITY
1.

CHOOSE A SPECIAL OBJECT & PAINT IT IN

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE STYLES.
IN SQUARE ONE

IN SQUARE TWO

REALISM

EXPRESSIONISM

IN SQUARE THREE IN SQUARE FOUR

ABSTRACT

SURREALISM

FOUR STYLES
OF PAINTING ACTIVITY
*FOR EXAMPLE