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Tag Archives: Isms
Medium Specificity – what is that?
During our last tutorial, whilst talking about ‘isms’, the concept of ‘medium specificity’ came up and I didn’t understand what it was all about so I decided to investigate once I was sat at home and had time to google … Continue reading
My fellow students’ isms (in brief) – Part One
Romanticism Romanticism was anti-industry and anti-materialistic movement of the end of the 18th century. Emotions were key to the Romantics. They were against all former styles of academic art. They were very fond of the word ‘sublime’ which makes me … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Kiefer, Brazille, Friedrich, Impressionism, Isms, Klimt, Monet, Neo-Expressionism, Renoir, Romanticism, Secessionism, Sisley
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Bonus ism – Vorticism
Definition – Vorticism Vorticism was a radical art and poetry movement based in the U.K. that illuminated the art world briefly during years before and during World War I. It was an offshoot of Cubism. Even though it was based … Continue reading
Ism number eight – Suprematism
Definition – Suprematism Suprematism was an art movement which focused on geometric shapes, for example circles, squares, lines, and rectangles. They were painted in a limited range of colours. The movement was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, in 1915. … Continue reading
Ism number seven – Neo-Conceptualism
Definition – Neo-Conceptualism Neo-Conceptualism was a label applied to the art of the 1980s and 1990s that continued Conceptualism’s questioning of the art object and the art institution, but with a close eye on the commodification of art and its … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceptualism, Emin, Hirst, Isms, Kabakov, Neo-Conceptualism, Sherman, Starling
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Ism number five – Social Realism
Definition – Social Realism Social Realism was also known as Socio-Realism. It was an artistic movement, which expressed in realistic terms social issues, racial injustice, and economic hardship. It aimed for the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as … Continue reading
Ism number one – Conceptualism
Definition – Conceptualism In broad terms Conceptualism is the art of concepts or abstract ideas which take precedence over traditional aesthetic or material concerns. Conceptualism began in the first half of the twentieth century. It began not as an art movement but … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceptualism, Duchamp, Emin, Hirst, Isms, Kosuth, Rauschenberg
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