MODERN ART MOVEMENTS

Painstaking craftsmanship is prized after decades of the spontaneous, accidental, and improvisational.

Emphasized spontaneous personal expression in large painting that are abstract or nonrepresentational.

Emotional art, most often boldly executed and making free use of distortion and symbolic or invented color.

Often depicted daily life and used divided brush strokes to capture the temporary effects of light and color.

A nonrepresentational style of sculpting and painting, often consisting of simple geometric shapes or forms.

Based on the presentation of multiple views and geometric reconstruction of subjects in flattened space.

Based on the visual cliches, subject matter, and impersonal style of popular mass media imagery.

Broke away from being the window to the world and instead became a window into the artist's mind and soul.

Based upon revealing the unconscious mind in irrational dream-like imagery.

Ridiculed contemporary culture and conventional art. Shared an anti-militaristic and anti-aesthetic attitude.