Art History

5. is a style of art that explores the everyday imagery that is so much a part of contemporary consumer culture.
7. is a form of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner.
9. is an elegant style of decorative art that is characterized using angular, symmetrical geometric forms.
12. developed in Europe around 1600, as a reaction against the intricate and formulaic Mannerism that dominated the Late Renaissance.
13. grew out of Pointillism and Post-Impressionism but is characterized by a more primitive and less naturalistic form of expression. Paul Gauguin's style and his use of color were especially strong influences.
14. was developed between about 1908 and 1912 in a collaboration between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
15. is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in other directions.

1. was a British form of historical painting inspired by the art and architecture of Classical Greece and Rome.
2. is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary colors are used to generate secondary colors.
3. is a style in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.
4. is a type of art in which the artist expresses himself purely using form and color.
6. is a movement that began in the late 1960s, in which scenes are painted in a style closely resembling photographs.
8. is a light, spontaneous manner of painting that began in France as a reaction against the restrictions and conventions of the dominant Academic art.
10. is an approach to art in which subjects are depicted in as straightforward a manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following the rules of formal artistic theory.
11. is the style of art produced in Northern Europe from the Middle Ages up until the beginning of the Renaissance.
14. is the straightforward realistic approach to representation that continues to be widely practiced in this post-abstract era.