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    modern ART MOVEMENTS & STYLES of 20th & 19th century: meaning & facts

    definitions, meaning, history facts, characteristics, manifests and art concepts

    Here you find information over a growing number modern art movements and styles in the period 1880 – 2000. You find their descriptions in short text-quotes, taken from art critics on manifests, definitions, meaning, concepts, characteristics, and influence of the modern art movements and styles of 20th century and its artists.
    The modern art movements & styles in their descriptions are frequently linked with the related artists quotes ( editing / Anne Porcelijn: translation).

    MODERN ART MOVEMENTS & STYLES in definitions, meaning & characteristics


    ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

    - Abstract Expressionism, the American modern art movement is described by famous art critics in definitions, meaning, characteristics and art history facts in clarifying quotes, linked with famous artists like William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler and others , etc…)


    COLOR FIELD PAINTING

    - Color Field, the contemporary American artists style is described in definitions, facts, meaning, characteristics, influence and its history in clarifying quotes, linked with famous painters like Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Hans Hofmann, etc…)


    CUBISM

    - the Cubism modern art movement in definitions, facts, meaning, cubist characteristics, influence and its history in clarifying quotes, linked with artists like Picasso – George Braque – Juan Gris – Feininger – Fernand Léger – etc…)


    DADA / DADAISM

    - the Dada modern art movement in definitions, information, facts, meaning, dadaist characteristics, influence and its history in clarifying quotes with painter artists like Kurt Schwitters, Tzara, Hans Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Heartsfield, George Grosz, Picabia, Man Ray etc…)


    EXPRESSIONISM

    - German Expressionism: the mainly German art movement in definitions, information, facts, meaning, characteristics and history of Expressionism in clarifying quotes: die Brücke (The Bridge) & Blaue Reiter; with artists: Heckel, Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Pechstein, Schmidt Rotluff, Emile Nolde, Franz Marc, Kandinsky, Gabriele Munter, Marianne Werefkin Jawlensky a.o.


    FAUVISM

    - French Fauvism, founded by Matisse; the modern French art movement: its meaning, facts, style characteristics and history facts, linked in clarifying quotes, with artists: Henri Matisse, Marquet, de Vaminck, Dufy a.o.


    FUTURISM

    - Futurism Italian modern art movement in facts, meaning, Futurist characteristics and its history, linked with quotes and statements of the Futurist painters and artists like Marinetti, Balla, Carrà, Boccioni, Gino Severini, Russolo, etc…)


    IMPRESSIONISM

    - Impressionism, the french modern art movement in definitions and information by the painters, the impressionist characteristics and its history, linked with clarifying quotes by the painters like Monet, Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, etc…)


    SUPREMATISM

    - Russian Suprematism, the modern art movement and its meaning, facts, characteristics and history facts, linked in clarifying quotes by the founding painter Malevich


    SURREALISM

    - the Surrealism modern art movement and its meaning, Surrealist characteristics and history facts from a.o. the famous Surrealist Manifest, linked with the painters and artists like André Breton, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Masson, Hans Arp, Delvaux and Joan Miró (ed.)


    DE STIJL / NeoPlasticism

    - De Stijl / Neoplasticism, the Dutch abstract modern art movement in definitions, and history facts, meaning, characteristics of The Stijl, linked with painters and artists quotes of Piet Mondrian and the artist Theo van Doesburg, etc…)


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    modern art movements & artist styles before 1940

    - Blue Rider / Blaue Reiter (artists: Franz Marc, Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Jawlensky, Marianne Werkfkin

    - French Purism (painter: Fernand Léger)


    contemporary Art movements & styles in America and Europe, from 1940

    - American Modernism

    - French Ecole de Paris

    - American Hard Edge (artist: Kelly)

    - American Pop Art (artists: Warhol, Liechtenstein)