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De Stijl This an abstract art movement that began on the year 1917. It was started by a group of artists and architects, they were influenced by some of the Dada ideas (De Stijl. 2017). Piet Mondrain, Composition A, 1920. (Artnet News. 2017) De Stijl artists and the movement itself put forward the idea of the ultimate simplicity and abstraction through which they could express a utopian idea of harmony and order. From the above image by Mondrain we can see that the harmony was established through minimalism and the use of geometric shapes and primary colors (Design Is History. 2017). Kadi Sabi, klr. 2017 Similar to the De Stijl artworks the above artwork is simple, Sabi utilizes rectangular shapes along with primary colours. The difference is that Sabi does his work digitally and also adds more colours to the primary colours, Sabi also utilizes typography; when looking at the type one can see that Sabi uses simplicity by removing the vowels f...

Surrealism Surrealism began as a literature and philosophical movement established by Andre Breton, it later became an art movement (The Message of Surrealist Art. 2009). Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes. 1921 Surrealism intended express the unconscious and subconscious, they c ombined the unconscious and conscious mind to achieve until now what is considered  an impossible artistic creation.  The juxtaposing of unrelated visuals became the way of achieving surrealism art.  Ernst had served in World War I and had been deeply affected by it, one can tell from looking at the above image; t he elephant has been interpreted to represent the fear-inducing British tanks being seen for the first time, the headless woman likely represents Ernst’s sister, whose death traumatized him.  In reality, a tank and Ernst’s dead sister would never appear side by side in his life, but inside Ernst’s mind during the war, these th...

DADA The Dada movement began during the First World War in Zurich, Swtizerland. This movement was influenced by the following movements:  Cubism Futurism Constructivism Expressionism (The Art Story. 2017). Hans Arp, Untitled (Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance), 1917. (The Art Story. 2017) The Dada movement represented the opposite of everything art stood for, it was basically an anti-art movement. Which is quite ironic, Dada was an anti-art movement that was considered an art movement (Art Term, Tate. 2017).  In the above image the artwork came about by chance, as the title suggests "Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance", What Arp did was drop the coloured squares on the large sheet and wherever the coloured squares fell is where he glued them. What is ironic about this is that one may say that the above piece leaks concept, but the "Laws of Chance" itself could be considered as a concept (The Art Story. ...

EXPRESSIONISM Expressionism also known as German-Expressionism began around 1905 in Germany. it lasted for about 28 years and end 1933 (The Art Story 2017). Kathe Kollwitz, death and woman, 1910. Expressionists used exaggerated brush strokes and potent colours, this was an expression of the artist's emotion and also this aimed to evoke emotion from the viewers (The Art Story 2017). On the other hand Kathe's expressionism style was a bit different from the others, she didn't emphasis brush strokes but she hatched, and instead of using potent colours she used shades of darks and greys to express and evoke emotions such as sorrow, woe and depression. One may call her art:  mourning art. She lost her loved ones consecutively, and thats what inspired her art. In the above artwork she illustrates death, the woman is being pulled down, and dark intense shadow may suggest she being pulled through the ground, and this symbolises a funeral since people ...

FUTURISM " Futurism began Its transformation of Italian culture on February 20th, 1909, with the publication of the Futurist Manifesto, authored by writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti " (The Art Story. 2017). Giacomo Bella, Dynamism of dog on a leash, 1912. A pro-industrialisation art movement that celebrated advanced technology and urban modernity ( The Art Story. (2017) . The futurists like all the other modernism art movements was against what was considered the traditional way of doing art. But unlike all the other art movements the futurists didn't want anything to do with the past, this was a bit complex because it meant they would neglect what they said and believed in 5-10 years ago because its in the past. The above painting illustrate their love for speed, the dog and the human legs are shown still but also have sense of movement, this is because of the multiple frames that are shown in one picture they give a sense of movement. ...

CUBISM Cubism began in Paris around 1907. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque are considered the fathers of this movement, other artists of this movement who are not that recognised are: Fernand Leger Piet Mondrian Sir Jacob Epstein Juan Fris.   (Cubism. 2017) .   Pablo Picasso,  Femme au chapeau. 1962. Cubism rejected portraying figures or objects from only one point of view, Cubist artists wanted to capture multiple viewpoints in one picture plan (Cubism. 2017). Cubism as a form of abtsract art, the figures and objects are represented geometrical shapes. "Cubism made it possible for us to be designers today" (Daandrey S. 2017), in other words if it wasn't for cubism we would probably would not have what we know today as: logos, and different kinds of signs. Kadi Sabi, Jean, 2017. In the above image similar to cubism Sabi also represents his figure in an abstract way, He also utilizes geometric shapes, but Sabi's work is ...