Styles

Abstraction came about in the early 20th Century (see related article: Abstraction) and is a term applied to artworks that are not directly related to natural or man-made forms. The abstract artwork ...

Conceptual art, or ‘Conceptualism’, chiefly concerns itself with content over form. For this reason drawing and painting are naturally opposed to conceptualism as they are, by nature, concerned ...

Many an artwork and artist has been separated from their peer group merely on the basis upon which they contextualise their work. In some cases two artists with near identical work will follow ...

Many beginner artists become immediately fixated with developing for themselves a style to work within. Whilst it is important to develop a coherent style it is not essential to develop a ...

Expressionism as a term applies chiefly to painting drawing and printmaking undertaken in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, with an emphasis on expressing emotion. Put simply, there are two ...

A realist work of art is one in which real things, people or events are depicted as if they are real. The aim with realist drawing or painting is to construe as close as possible an accurate ...

Surrealism is a style developed in the early 20th Century and highly influenced by philosophical and psychological currents of the time. The Surrealist Movement was an organised network of artists ...