Art movements

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Post-painterly abstraction

Post-painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for…

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Aestheticism

Aestheticism is a 19th-century theory that art, whether visual or literary, is self-sufficient and need have no moral or social…

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Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official…

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Social realism

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw…

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Tonalism

Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an…

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Tachisme

Tachisme (alternative spelling: Tachism, derived from the French word tache, stain) is a French style of abstract painting popular in…

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Utrecht Caravaggism

Utrecht Caravaggism refers to those Baroque artists, all distinctly influenced by the art of Caravaggio, who were active mostly in…

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