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Here artists from the East and the West will come together and define "Art". Artworks from famous Chinese Artists, European and Western Artists, and also local Houston artists will be shown. We hope you enjoy this site and please feel free to contact the local artists regarding their paintings.
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Art of the Month
Art History Movements
The Baroque Era
Baroque Art developed in Europe around 1600, as an reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism that dominated the Late Renaissance. Baroque art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerist art.
This movement was encouraged by the Catholic Church, the most important patron of the arts at that time, being seen as a return to tradition and spirituality.
Romanticism
Romanticism might best be described as anticlassicism. A reaction against Neoclassicism, it is a deeply-felt style which is individualistic, exotic, beautiful and emotionally wrought.
Although Romanticism and Neoclassicism were philosophically opposed, they were the dominant European styles for generations, and many artists were affected to a lesser or greater degree by both. Artists might work in both styles at different times or even combine elements, creating an intellectually Romantic work using a Neoclassical visual style, for example.
Expressionism
Centered in
Germany, C.1905 to
1940's
Expressionism is a
style in which the
intention is not to
reproduce a subject
accurately, but
instead to portray
it in such a way as
to express the inner
state of the artist.
The movement is
especially
associated with
Germany, and was
influenced by such
emotionally-charged
styles as
Symbolism,
Fauvism, and
Cubism.
Contemporary
Realism
America, Emerged in the Late 1960's/Early 1970's
Contemporary Realism
is the
straightforward
realistic approach
to representation
which continues to
be widely practiced
in this
post-abstract era.
It is different from
Photorealism, which
is somewhat
exaggerated and
ironic and
conceptual in its
nature.
Contemporary
Realists form a
disparate group, but
what they share is
that they are
literate in the
concepts of Modern
Art but choose to
work in a more
traditional form.
Many Contemporary
Realists actually
began as abstract
painters, having
come through an
educational system
dominated by an
professors and
theorists dismissive
of representational
painting.