A short life hack on how to get started with art.
"Seryoga took me … to the Van Gogh exhibition …"
In order not to fall face down in the dirt and enjoy the works of art, we propose to understand the main directions of painting. So, let's go!
Gothic (Medieval painting)
Distribution: Western, Central, Northern and Eastern Europe from XI-XII to XV-XVI centuries.
The bottom line: changes in church life led to the emergence of a new one in painting. The execution of Christ began to be depicted differently, the artists strove for naturalism, to convey the pain of Jesus and the suffering of the Mother of God. Deep religiosity pierces almost all creativity, the space of the picture is three-dimensional, the depicted people are often drawn elongated (symbolizes the craving for God).
Symbolism and allegories in everything, therefore, many details are schematic and in bright colors.
Portrait painters appear.
Representatives: brothers Libburg, Jan Polak, d'Eik Barthelemy.
Revival
Essence: building a volumetric composition, proportionality, landscape in the background, departure from the traditions of iconography.
A harmonious image of a person, sometimes heroic pathos was traced.
The flowering of portraiture thanks to Titian.
Representatives: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Santi, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Titian.
Baroque
Flourishing: XVII – XVIII centuries, the center of which was Italy.
Essence: the paintings are detailed, pompous, emotional. Serving in an exaggerated manner. The play of light and shadow is used.
Representatives: Rubens, Caravaggio.
Classicism
Essence: the rules are built according to which the pictures are created, rationalism, heroic and mythological plots, femininity and patriotism triumph in everything.
Outstanding representatives: Karl Bryullov, Nicolas Poussin,
Romanticism
Essence: there is a craving for individuality, for folk motives and folklore, nature and fog prevail. Often fantasy comes to the fore.
Representatives: Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, Mikhail Vrubel.
Realism
The essence:
Representatives: Ivan Shishkin, Ilya Repin, Jules Breton, Gustave Courbet.
Impressionism
Essence: strokes, brightness, magic, sincerity of feelings and openness.
Refusal of academic painting.
Social and political issues are not depicted.
So, the highlight of the program
- Manet are people.
- Monet - spots.
- Well, Van Gogh with his sunflowers.
Avant-garde
They spread in the 20th century and include a lot of trends: futurism, fauvism, abstractionism, expressionism, suprematism.
Essence: the search for new forms and possibilities, the authors' lack of understanding of where to go next, the play of lines and light.
Representatives: Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall.
Surrealism
The essence:
Representatives: Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Joan Miró.
