Austrian Art History and Sitemap

Egon Schiele

Austria is known for its contributions to music, especially during the Classical and Romantic periods.

The major work of outsiders such as Ludwig van Beethoven (from Bonn [Germany]), Johannes Brahms (from Hamburg), and - in part - Richard Strauss (from Munich) is no less associated with Vienna than that of such natives of Austria and the empire as Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf.

German Art History and Sitemap

August Friedrich Siegert (1786-1869)

German Art has a long and distinguished tradition in the visual arts, from the earliest known work of figurative art to its current output of contemporary art.

Germany has only been united into a single state since the 19th century, and defining its borders has been a notoriously difficult and painful process.

For earlier periods German art often effectively includes that produced in German-speaking regions including Austria, Alsace and much of Switzerland, as well as largely German-speaking cities or regions to the east of the modern German borders.

Abstract Artists | Sitemap

Abstract art, also called nonobjective art or nonrepresentational art, painting, sculpture, or graphic art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part.

All art consists largely of elements that can be called abstract - ments of form, color, line, tone, and texture.

Prior to the 20th century these abstract elements were employed by artists to describe, illustrate, or reproduce the world of nature and of human civilization - and exposition dominated over expressive function.

Abstract art has its origins in the 19th century.

The period characterized by so vast a body of elaborately representational art produced for the sake of illustrating anecdote also produced a number of painters who examined the mechanism of light and visual perception.

Robert Delaunay 1885-1941 - Le Premier Disque, 1912-1913

List of Sculptors | Sitemap

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth.

It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process.

Peter Demetz, 1969 ~ Figurative wood sculptor

Art Movements and Styles | Sitemap

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde.

Concept

According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the period of time corresponding to modern art.

The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed approximately halfway through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art.

Postmodernism in visual art begins and functions as a parallel to late modernism and refers to that period after the "modern" period called contemporary art.

18th-19th century Artists | Sitemap

18th-19th century Artists: Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, Poets, Musicants, Writers and the artistic movements definition

18th century Art

Johan Zoffany | The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772-1778

Paris painting | Part.3

Reading / Lettura | Quotes and painting

Alyssa Monks, 1977 | Figurative /Abstract painter

Alyssa Monks is an American painter currently based in Brooklyn.

She specializes in large oil paintings and is recognized both in the United States and Europe for her work featuring figures obscured by water, steam, and vinyl.

Her notable series of work centering around figures in bathrooms, tubs, and showers garnered attention from the worldwide art community and the press.

Alyssa Monks earned her B.A. from Boston College and she studied painting at Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence.

French Art History and Sitemap

French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.

Modern France was the main centre for the European art of the Upper Paleolithic, then left many megalithic monuments, and in the Iron Age many of the most impressive finds of early Celtic art.

The Gallo-Roman period left a distinctive provincial style of sculpture, and the region around the modern Franco-German border led the empire in the mass production of finely decorated Ancient Roman pottery, which was exported to Italy and elsewhere on a large scale.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Jeune fille en rose dans un paysage, 1903