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The High Renaissance, the epitome of Italian art before the modern era was the exemplified in the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael - among others.
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Naturalism is a movement within painting where the human subject is depicted in natural habitats and social milieus, with an emphasis on visual accuracy.
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The Russian "Itinerants" or "Wanderers" were a group of painters specializing in archetypal Russian views such as pine forests, wheat fields, and water meadows.
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Japanese Art Movements
These are the important Japanese movements, styles, tendencies, groups, and schools that we currently cover. More are on the way!
YOUR SELECTIONS: Started: 1959
Ended: 1978
Fluxus was an international network of "intermedia" artists of the 1960s who worked in fields ranging from music to performance to the visual arts. Taking their name from the Latin "to flow," Fluxus artists adopted an often anarchic and satirical approach to conventional forms of art, and their ideas paved the way for Conceptual art.
Started: 1954
Ended: 1972
The Gutai was a Japanese artistic movement that was founded by Jiro Yoshihara in 1954. The group was preoccupied with beauty that is born from things that are damaged or decayed. Members believed the destructive process revealed the inner life of materials and objects.
Started: 1854
Ended: 1920
Japonism (Japonisme in French) describes the influence of Japanese art, especially woodblock prints, on French artists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many Post-Impressionists were influenced by the flat blocks of color, the emphasis on design, and the everyday subject matter.
Started: 1882
Nihonga artists preserved the heritage of classical Japanese painting while reinvigorating it for modern, global exposure and artistic influence.
Started: 1904
Ended: 1960s
The Japanese Sosaku-hanga movement transformed cheap prints previously made for the masses into original and creative works of high art.
Started: 2000
Superflat is a postmodern art movement founded by Takashi Murakami, that is named for the flattened forms found in prevalent and historic Japanese graphic art, animation, pop culture, and fine arts. Superflat uses the juxtaposition of old and new techniques to explore subjects such as consumerism and sexual fetishism.
Started: 1672
Ended: 1880s
The major Japanese art movement Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) often featured images of beautiful women, landscapes, kabuki theater, and scenes from history. They were very influential and inspirational for the Impressionist and later Western modernists.
Started: 1876
Ended: 1955
Yoga art, or Western-style painting was a major Japanese movement made in accordance with European conventions and ideas from the 1870s to the 1950s.
