Art Terms Painting - Hatje Cantz

NEW OBJECTIVITY

With their paintings, they reacted to the traumatic experience of the First World War and a world that had come apart at the seams: the artists of New Objectivity.

PHOTOREALISM

In the late 1960s, several young artists in the U.S. began to capture mostly everyday motifs of their immediate surroundings that expressed the "American way of life" with meticulous attention to detail in large-format paintings. Photographs served them as models.

NEW LEIPZIG SCHOOL

"Leipzig is coming" was the confident slogan in the 2003 catalog for the exhibition sieben mal malerei (seven times painting) - and the seven painting graduates of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts were to be proven right.

SCANDINAVIAN ART AROUND 1900

It was not until the 19th century that an independent art scene developed in the northern European countries. Edvard Munch is Scandinavia's best-known artist. Many of his contemporaries have been rediscovered only in recent years.

EXPRESSIONISM

Expressionism as an art of mental expression: images of reality represented as abstraction with strong colors. However, the Expressionists were not overthrowers of the social system, their revolution was mainly the formal means of art, the free play of colors and shapes.

CUBISM

The art movement that develops at the beginning of the 20th century, especially in France, marks the beginning of abstract and non-objective art: cubism.

STILL LIFES

For centuries they have fascinated painters and viewers alike: carefully arranged still lifes.

ACTION PAINTING

Abstract expressionist painting is associated with one name in particular: Jackson Pollock. With daring techniques such as "action painting," the American continues to influence the art scene to this day.

LANDSCAPE

Reflection of human feelings or spiritual image of nature: these are common aspects of landscape painting of the 18th and 19th centuries. But the special genre of representational painting did not always occupy such a high place.

BAROQUE ART

No epoch in European cultural history is as characterized by contradictions as the age of the Baroque - yet this style of art, which is often dismissed as "pompous," is once again attracting increasing attention.

NUDES IN ART

The nude is one of the oldest and most fascinating motifs in art. After all, the motif of the unclothed body offers virtually inexhaustible possibilities for depicting man's view of himself, his ideals, fears and dreams.

PORTRAIT

The depiction of the human figure is one of the oldest motifs in painting. But it was not until the Renaissance and its new view of man as an autonomous individual that the portrait gained in importance.

THE NEUE WILDE

Painting experienced a brief but fierce renaissance in the early 1980s. Young artists joined forces to paint against the formal asceticism of Minimal and Concept Art.

IMPRESSIONISM

An exhibition in Paris in 1874 gave birth to what was probably the most exciting and up to then the newest style in 19th century art: Impressionism.