Art movement can be defined within these few fundamental points:-
- Style in art with a specific common philosophy or purpose.
- Artists in group conform to the objectives and generate creative ideas
- Happens during restricted period of time. Be it month, years or decades.
- It evolves over time, in consecutive manner, that are experimental or innovative.
- Accomplished by pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm.
- Each movement derives an important development or break-through in modern art.
Impressionism is one of the art movement I would like to learn more about. There are also many art movements from 16th century onwards. Some are uncommon. I shall list below the popular art movements of 19th & 20th century.
- Romanticism, c. 1750s–1890s
- Realism, c. 1850s–1900s
- Modernism, c. 1860s-ongoing
- Symbolism 1860s-1880s
- Impressionism, c. 1860s–1920s
- Pointillism, c. 1880s–1910s
- Post-Impressionism, c. 1880s–1900s
- Expressionism, c. 1890s–1930s
- Neo-Classicism, c. 1900s–ongoing
- Fauvism, c. 1900–1910
- Picasso‘s Blue Period, c. 1901–1904
- Picasso’s Rose Period, c. 1904–1906
- Picasso’s African Period, 1906–1909
- Cubism, c. 1906–1919
- Futurism, c. 1909–1916
- Dada, c. 1916–1922
- Surrealism, c. 1920s–1960s
- Abstract expressionism
- Pop Art
- Body Art
- Classical Realism
- Late modernism
- Minimalism
- Neo-Expressionism
Picasso posing as a ballerina
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- Impressionism, as a painting style, is a school of paintings initially focus on art work done outdoors.
- Impressionist paintings demonstrated that human beings do not see objects, but instead see light itself. Emphasizing on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities.
- A 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.
- The name of the style is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), painted in 1872.
- Impressionist artists: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.
- Impressionism became a precursor of various styles of painting, including Post-Impressionism and Cubism.
- Painting techniques, naming a few, impasto, Wet-on-wet, or alla prima, and effets de soir
- Impasto ~ paint is laid on canvas very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
- Alla prima ~ used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previous layers of wet paint.
- Effets de soir ~ getting the effects of light caused by the sunset, twilight, or darkness of the early evening or matins. Therefore, painting during evening.
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In the flux of my current workload, the priority of art blogging remains unchanged. Constantly having the desire to learn and share my knowledge.
Oil paintings, fine art auction, painting artists, like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. Also Chinese culture and Confucianism. Above all, is social blogging and networking. Leaving no stone unturned.
As weeks passed after my last post, I realized my timetable for my weekly schedule is becoming more tied up.
Organizing activities on the calendar like a pro-planner; there’s not a second to lose!
The sheer amount of hectic lifestyle makes my mind boggles a little.
Weekends are no longer belong to those days for rest and relax. I just feel like time is running out. Always rushing to catch up with the pace of many others. Lagging behind is not the leader of the pack.
Time became more precious when everything seems to have equally importance. In stark contrast, sacrifices of less important tasks are bound to exist in a busy situation like mine.
I’m referring to lesser coffee breaks, shorter lunch hour, reduce outdoor shopping, and Facebook social twice per week. It will be every Wednesday and Sunday morning, if based on US time zone.
The only activities I feel it’s important is reading books of novel, fictional and non-fictional. I keep this task almost daily with 15 to 30 minutes.It does help me to improve my blog writings and knowledge.
Another task is I jog regularly to stay healthy. A must-do activity for me, otherwise, I will be sloppy with no drive for self-motivation to do more work. I may one day blog about jogging relating to art appreciation.
Prioritizing tasks is an inevitable management tool. Everything has to move on. Nothing has to be left behind. Keeping one’s alertness and staying healthy is, thus, vehemently crucial.
As from now, my blog post may get shorter, however, always try my best to maintain the top-notch quality on every posts.
Moreover, wanting to make my blog more sociable. This shall be my aims to keep it go on for new few months.
Please share or comment if you have ideas about painting art blogging.
Whenever I log in to my blog, I always try to create new informative post about oil paintings, else it would be a new post on Chinese culture.
As my blog remains logging in on one of the browser tabs, I switch to other tab to view the notifications from my Facebook.
Then toggle to another neighboring tab with Twitter log in to re-tweet, thanking those who followed me. Plus one browser tab parking next to Twitter on the newly signed up Google Plus account.
I continue to read my emails and news feed on oil paintings and Chinese culture. The emails that never seems to stop receiving.
Wow! I look triply busy than a bumblebee bringing its nectar to the hive.
Fingers typing shortcut keys exercise more actively than my legs can jog round the rubber tracks. Flipping, toggling, typing, eyes gazing from left to right, top to bottom.
Social media is actually more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol.
By the time I reminded myself of blogging, it is already lunch time.
Does that describe you as a new blogger?
Time passed. The result of my blog is nullify by the time spent on social media and emails. I ought to be more organized and be self-discipline.
SO I did for the past 2 weeks. Not blogging, but for my planing and preparation. I put in effort to mind-map and to encapsulate all my content for this blog.
Beside oil paintings and Chinese culture, there are series of activities adding in the pipeline. I even to expand the topics even further about contemporary Chinese artists.
That include Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous dissident artist, Zeng Fanzhi, international artist based in Beijing, and many notable Chinese artists.
Beside Chinese artists, another important attribute of sharing in this blog is art auction held in HongKong by Christie’s and Sotheby’s. I be learning to catch up on those events.
Both auction house have been proactively evolving their presence in Asia, particularly, in fine art paintings from Eastern Asia, China.
The knowledge I’m having is by far too shallow to share with the audience reading my blog. However, it is one of the direction I be looking forward in the coming years.
Fundamentally, knowledge of oil paintings is the crucial element here, as well as topics about Chinese culture which is my forte. Like what I have mentioned on my last post, oil paintings will be a challenge for me to develop my knowledge-based research skill.
There are a couple of items I need to spend time planing on this blog.
Blogging is like a Chinese chef from royal palace, using his creativity concocting the special ingredients of authentic cuisine. Otherwise, beheaded by the palace king if food yucks!. *Joke aside.
Here is another analogy about my intention of posting genuine content in my blog.
In the palance dinner, you are the invited guests and VIPs, while Google, the search engine king, will hunger for newly written and descriptive content.
Does tantalizingly delicious food arouse your appetite? Same goes to written content for Google, ever desire for mouthwatering delicacy content.
I shall list my action-items here to complete before my next post scheduled next week.
- Re-organizing the content, and reshuffling of tags and categories. Some are redundant.
- Sharing a draft of roadmap on upcoming posts for next 6 months.
- Put up the About.me page to briefly describe this blog. Short and succinct.
- Optimize the loading speed of the web pages. Technical for webmaster, who is also me.
One last note, be free to comment if you have opinions or improvements on my blog.