Art History Styles

This style includes quick and loose brushstrokes, a focus on light and color, and is often painted outdoors

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Renaissance

• Fauvism

This art style focuses more on emotions and ideas rather than showing a realistic representation

• Expressionism

• Impressionism

• Romanticism

• Realism

This style is characterized by exaggerated movement and clear, realistic detail to produce drama. It also usually has dramatic lighting.

• Impressionism

• Expressionism

• Baroque

• Rococo

This art style is most known for its exploration of bold, unnatural color and painterly qualities

• Cubism

• Pop Art

• Impressionism

• Fauvism

This art style is best known for its unusual, unnerving, and illogical artworks that activate the subconscious mind through its imagery

• Surrealism

• Pop Art

• Fauvism

• Impressionism

This art style challenged the traditions of fine art by including imagery of popular culture and mass-produced objects

• Expressionism

• Surrealism

• Fauvism

• Pop Art

A Neo-Impressionist style of painting using dots of color for optical blending

• Post-Impressionism

• Pointillism

• Ben-day dots

• Dot Matrix

This art style brought different viewpoints and angles together at the same time, resulting in images that appeared fragmented and abstract

• Cubism

• Surrealism

• Fauvism

• Expressionism

This art style featured soft colors and curved lines, and focused on lighthearted subject matter.

• Baroque

• Rococo

• Expressionism

• Pop Art

This style of art was a revival of classic Greek and Roman art forms, including realistic figures, perspective, and foreshortening

• Renaissance

• Rococo

• Romanticism

• Realism