Pop Art

Pop Art started in America and took the world by storm in the mid 60’s and became a fashionable lifestyle in New York, London and Paris . It was a style of art that that mainly focused on the pop culture using images of pop icons such as Marilyn Monroe , Elvis Presley , Mickey Mouse and popeye and most famously Cambells soup cans. The biggest artists in this style were artists such as Andy Warhol and my favorite Roy Liechtenstein and other artists such as Richard Hamilton who manily worked in pop collage . Pop art was huge in advertising and all round general pop culture .

ANDY WARHOL

RICHARD HAMILTONRoy lichtenstein

With internet at the center of mass media, Pop Art gains a different significance. Today, brand new technol-ogy and social network platforms introduce fresh ideas and possibilities. Much like post 2000 pop music, the “Nu Pop Art” is a light-hearted, sample driven tribute to pop and movie stars and other well-known products and celebrities.Appealing to a broad audience, Mel Marcelo’s signature vector illustrations make him undoubtedly the “Prince of Pop Art”. Using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software as weapon of choice, his vibrant prints redefine Pop Art for our generation. His works range from art portraits of President Obama, Megan Fox, Notorious Big, Leonardo di Caprio, Shaun White; editorial illustrations; party and concert posters; graphics and prints for fashion and lifestyle brands as Oakley, Vans and Paul Frank.With his finger on the pulse of the popular culture of the last 5 decades, Mel Marcelo transforms cultural references into powerful icons that speak to us today. Just as was the case with the work of the first wave of Pop artists, Marcelo’s poignant imagery of everything popular and trendy becomes a strong brand itself.

Mel Marcelo

Shepard Fairey

Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding[1] scene. He first became known for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” (…OBEY…) sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His work became more widely known in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, specifically his Barack Obama “Hope” poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today’s best known and most influential street artists.[2] His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in LondonHe originally started out doing art on his skateboards and t shirts and later developed on to large scale poster using spray paints and stencils, his work is extremely detailed in some posters which show his great skill and eye for design.Fairey became known within the skater community by placing “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” posters around Providence,Rhode Island. It took off within the skater community and the images started appearing in many cities and towns across the U.S.A. He altered the work stylistically into the OBEY Giant poster.

Art DecoArt Deco is an electic artistic and design style which began in Paris in the 1920s and exploded in the 1930s and trough to the World War 11 era . It was a style that expanded beyond the canvas and into architecture ,interior design , fashion and jewelry as well as graphic arts and film . This style represented elegence and glamor. Art Deco style had linear symmetry based on mathematical geometric shapes which was influ-enced from art Nouveau , cubism and futurism among others .Art deco was purley decortive .The biggest artists in this era are Pierre Brissaud, Joseph Csaky, Jean Dupas , Romain de Tirtoff whi is knows as Erte , Tamara de Lempicka, Hildreth Meiere Maurice and Maurice Pillard Verneuil.

Pierre Brissaud (23 December 1885–1964) Joseph Csaky 1888 – Paris May 1, 1971)

Jean Dupas 1882 - 1964

Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990)

Erté

Tamara de Lempicka

Hildreth Meiere Maurice Pillard Verneuil

Font and Patterns

My Photos

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions .Many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artefact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.

Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music in many countries .The word surrealist was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.

During the war, André Breton, who had trained in medicine and psychiatry, served in a neurological hospi-tal where he used Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic methods with soldiers suffering from shell-shock. They early artists experimented with automatic writing—spontaneously writing without censoring their thoughts—and published the writings, as well as accounts of dreams.

Continuing to write, they attracted more artists and writers; they came to believe that automatism was a better tactic for societal change than the Dada attack on prevailing values. The group grew to include Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Pierre Naville, Roger Vi-trac, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Pré-vert, and Yves Tanguy.

surrealism Salvador Dalí

Max Earnest

Man Ray

André Breton

Surreilsm Today

Impressionism Impressionism is a art movment that started in Paris in 1870’s and 1880’s. The characteristics of this style include small thin brush strokes , open compostition and concentrtion of light in changing qualitys with unusual angles . Arists of this era mostly painted outdoors pictures with realistic scenes of modern life and portraits but these were usuealy done in the studio . They captured the effects of sunlight with visual effects instead of detail , they did this with broken brush strokes of mixed and un- mixed colour not blended smoothly or shaded so to have an intense vibrent colours.This style soon spread to Italy and the United States with artists such as the Macchiaioli and Winslow who also explored plein -air paintings .

Macchiaioli

Winslow Homer (1836–1910)

Giuseppe Abbati

Odoardo Borrani

Arts and CraftsArts and Crafts was a design movement that flourished btween 1860 - 1910 and continuing its influences trough to the 1930’s . This movment was led by the artist and writer William Morris during the 1860’s . This style developed from a reaction against the impoverished state of decrotive arts and the conditions in which they were produced . This style had a traditional craftsman form with a medieval and romantic decorations.

William Morris

Charles Voysey

charles Rennie Mackintosh

Art NouveauArt Nouveau was a style of art and architecture espcially decortive art that was most popular during the 1890-1910.The name Art Nouveau is french for new art and is also known modernism in Catalonia . This style on canvas was very two dimensional . It was a reaction to academic art of the 19th centuary and was inspirerd by natural elements .

Aubrey Beardsley

Alphonse Mucha

Will h Bradley

“JUGENDSTIL” or “Style of the Youth”. It came from the Art Nouveau and other related styles which were growing troughout Europe . Its style combined mo-tives of the feminine figure useually with long hair , soft looking dress’s and austere geometric patterns .

JUGENDSTIL

Otto EckmannPeter Behrens

Louis Comfort Tiffany

PlakatstilPlakatstil also know as Sachplakat was a poster style of art in Germany which began in the early 1900s. The traits of this style are quit bold straight font with flat colors with shapes and objects being simplified while keeping the subject of the poster detailed . It had more of a modern look compaired to Art Nouveau . The biggest artists in this era were Ludwig Hohlwin, Edmund Edel , Hans Lindenstadt , Julius Gipkens and Hans Rudi Erdt.

Ludwig Hohlwein

Julius Klinger

Hans Rudi Erdt

Wiener Werk Statte was a production community of visual arts in Vienna Austria which brought together architects , artists and designers.In 1903 the wiener Werkstatte began operations with specially designed facilities for metal work , leatherwork, bookbinding ,woodworkings and a paint shop They designed leather goods , enamel , jewellery, postcards and ceramics which were all stamped with a monogram of a designer and craftsman .

Wiener Werk StatteFuturism started in Italy it was an artistic and social movment which concentrated on concepts of the future including speed , technology , youth and violence and objects such as cars and airplanes and all round industrial citys . This style had an impact on film ,fashion,textiles , literature , music and architecture.

Futurism

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Umberto Boccioni

Dadaism was an art movement in Europe and the US in the early 20th century. It was ccreated due to the horrors of WW1. This movement involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory, theatre, and graphic design, This style was of art was based on anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.

Marcel Duchamp

George Grosz

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural style that began in Russia in 1919. The movement stood for freedom of art for social purpose. Constructivism influenced such styles as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement. Its had hudge influences in architecture, graphic and industrial design, theatre, film, dance, fashion and to some extent music. The constructivist artists tried to create strange works that would make the viewer become active in there social beliefs .

Kazimir Malevich El Lissitzky

Vladimir Tatlin

Naum Gabo

ConstructivismDa Da

A style of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, It was characterized by the reduction and fragmenta-tion of natural forms into abstract, and often geometric structures. The most famous artists of this style would be the legendary pablo picaso

Cubism

Pablo Picaso

Georges Braque Juan Gris

Jacques Villon

BauhausBauhaus style stared as an art school in Germany in 1919 . Its charicteristics were functionalism and simplicity with minimum decoration and a feeling of openness with clean lines. It is also know as the International Style . The period between 1924 and 1928 was the most significant in the development of the Bauhaus.

Bart Van der Leck

Bart Van der Leck

New Typeography

Jan TschicholdJan Tschichold started this movement and became a lead roll in Modern design . Jan Tschichold hated all typefaces but sans-serif , He also prefared non-centered design (e.g., on title pages), and paved the way for many other Moderni design rules. He pushed the use of standardised paper sizes for all printed material, and made some of the first clear explanations of the effective use of different sizes and weights of type in order to quickly and easily convey information. He went trough fasis of styles loving some and then hateing them.

De Stijl“The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the NetherlandsProponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and hori-zontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white”

Gerrit Rietveld

Vilmos HuszarGeorges Vantongerloo

jacobus oud

Bart van Der Leck

“The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that em-phasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity.[1] Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Ak-zidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or draw-ings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element in addition to its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named”

International Typographic Psychedelia Psychelic art is a style which is inspirerd by triipping on magic mooshrooms , acid , iawaska ,dmt , and amongst other things . Psychedlic means mind manifistation . It is the flicker of visual dimeshions that the artists try to capture on the canvas . This style usually had spiro-graph shapes and kaleidoscopically alumius patterns with worming string thory holes floating trough them . It also has a peace, freedom and spiritual side to it. This style stared in the 60’s when pop smoking hippies ran rampant trough the streets protesting vietnam flashing there boobs and trowing up peace signs .

Pablo Amaringo

Amanda Sage

Amanda Sage

Alex Grey PUNKPunk art is a style which you mostley see on rock albums , poster , flyers etc . It is characterized by noisy violence with a ripped collage kind of feel like black letters cut out and suck over a yellow background . It has sharp points alost everywhere with a messy loud feel to it . The main aestetic is to creat a shock facter, get in ur face I dont give a dam about the law style. This style became popular in the late 70 and but really took the world by storm in the early 80’s.

Fauvism“Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for “the wild beasts”), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the move-ment as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.[1][2] The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.”

This style was characterized by thick strokes of color with the main piece having a simple abstract form . It is classified as an extream style of Van Gogh’s post impression-ism combined with the pointillsm of Seurat amongst others of that time . This style had bright pure color , sometime the artists would even squeese paint straight onto the canvas .

Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat Matisse-Luxe

Rousseau-Hungry-Lion Derain CharingCrossBridge.

Landscape in Provence André Derain Dongen-Hat La Petite Lima

PrimitivismPrimitivism is a type of art that was takes style from non western people, it introduced the west to a new style that had not been seen before in the west . European artists defined atributes of primitive expression which lacked liner perspective , simple outlines , presence of symbolic signs such as the hiroglyphs and disstortion of the figure with energetic motion with ornamental patterns . This style can be found in Africa , Oceana and the Indians of America .

Paul Gauguin- Manao tupapau The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch

Henri Rousseau - Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

ExpressionismExpressionism was a modernist movement. It originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical styles is subjec-tive perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effectto change peoples mood .Expressionist artists strived to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.

The Scream

El Greco View of Toledo

Egon Schiele

Cawen Alvar Sokea Soittoniekka

Paul Gosselin ,Self portrait

Abstract expressionism is a movment that started in America in the mid 20 century . It was Americas first movement to gaine international fame which put New York at the center of the Western art world . It had a large range of styles and techniques which were would be the predecessor of surrealism using spontaneous , automatic or sub concious styles. One of these styels was dripping paint onto a canvas which would be laid on the floor. Its style was rebellious with a feel of nihilisticnis .

Abstract expressionism

Kooning womanStill 1957

Gorky-The-Liver

“Conceptualism is a philosophical theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind.[1] Intermediate between Nominalism and Realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of universals from a perspective that denies their presence in particulars outside of the mind’s perception of them. “

Conceptualism

Minimalism describes a style in diffrent forms of art and design, The design is set out to expose the blank space eliminating all non-essential forms . Minimalism is any de-sign or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect.

Minimalism

SensationalismSensationalism is a style which brings pain to view the subject like dead bodies ,feesys chopped up animals etc it is also knows as attenchion seek-ing controversal and loud .