Art and Design

Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms. Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art

Aestheticism (or the Aesthetic Movement) was a European art movement that was part of the anti-19th century reaction and had post-Romantic origins, and as such anticipates modernism. It was a feature of th e late 19th century from about 1868 to about 1900. Artists associated with the Aesthetic style include James McNeill Whistler, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Aubrey Beardsley

Arte Povera was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. The term was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. Lucio Fontana had ties to Arte Povera

Art Nouveau was most popular from 1890 to1910. The style was influenced strongly by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, when Mucha produced a lithographed poster, which appeared in 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, featuring Sarah Bernhardt

Ashcan School was a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods. Members included John Sloan

Ashington Group was a small society of artists from Ashington, Northumberland, which met regularly between 1934 and 1984. Despite being composed largely of miners with no formal artistic training, the Group and its work became celebrated in the British art world of the 1930s and 1940s

Barbizon school (c. 1830–1870) of painters is named after the village of Barbizon near Fontainebleau Forest. The leaders of the Barbizon school were Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-François Millet and Charles-François Daubigny

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc. The movement lasted from 1911 to 1914, and was fundamental to Expressionism

Bolognese School flourished in Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries. Its most important representatives include the Carracci family, including Ludovico, and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino and Annibale

Borough Group was founded by Cliff Holden in 1946 with the purpose of developing the ideas of fellow artist David Bomberg, who taught at the then Borough Polytechnic during the 1940s and 1950s

Die Brucke (The Bridge) was a German Expressionist art movement founded by four students of architecture in 1905 in Dresden. The name comes from a passage in Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathrustra. The founders were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmitt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl. Later members were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller. In 1911 the artists moved to Berlin

Byzantine art is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire from about the 5th century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Many religious pictures with gold

Cabal of Naples was a notorious triumvirate of painters in the city of Naples that operated during the early Baroque period from the late…