Art movements

Art movements cheat sheet

These are my most recent "Quicky Art History" time lines which I use to teach surveys of art history. I hope you find them interesting and useful.

Teach art history through children's literature with this huge book list organized according to art movement and free printable art timeline for kids!

Expressionism is characterized by the use of paint to depict and exaggerate emotions and feelings. Here I discuss what you can learn from the movement.

Art Timeline for Kids

ART VOCABULARY Art Elements & Principles (Prezi) The ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES of art/design are the building blocks used to create a work of art. The Elements of art/design can be thought…

Today, I'm going to talk about an art movement, rather than a specific artist, such as last week's Dimitra Milan. This movement, clearly implied through the title of this post, is Surrealism. Now let's address some background of Surrealism before we get into some specific examples. Surrealism was in the Modern Art era, rising after…

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between 1880 and 1910, emerging in Japan in the 1920s. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, roman

When famous Realism artists emerged in France after the French Revolution of 1848, they wanted to portray the common man as he was. They went against the idealized paintings of Neoclassical artists and the often overly dramatized paintings of Romantic artists. These two art movements had been dominant during the first half of the 19th century. It went hand in hand with the political situation at the time. #Artworks #paintings #Realism #Realismpaintings

Dadaism or Dada was a form of artistic anarchy that challenged the social, political and cultural values of the time.