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Art styles
We describe in this category 30 different art styles and movements from all countries


Urban or Street Art, a short incomplete history.
Part 1: Highly political graffiti Forty years of protean art made up of polemics, paradoxes, wide gaps, and gray areas. If street art is...
gerard van weyenbergh
Jun 5, 20206 min read


Barbizon, a basic description
A small village on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest in Île-de-France, Barbizon became a den of artists wishing to escape the...
gerard van weyenbergh
May 4, 20202 min read


School of Fontainebleau, a basic description.
Composed of anonymous people influenced by renowned Italian masters, the so-called Fontainebleau school is a precious testimony of...
gerard van weyenbergh
May 3, 20202 min read


Flemish Primitives, a basic description
Flemish primitives terminology, invented in the XIXth century, refers to the Flemish painters of the XVth century active in the southern...
gerard van weyenbergh
May 3, 20202 min read


Blaue Reiter, a basic description.
Formed in Munich in 1911, the Blue Rider ( Blaue Reiter in German) is a group of the expressionist avant-garde. Vassily Kandinsky and...
gerard van weyenbergh
May 2, 20202 min read


Nabis, a basic description
Disciples of Paul Gauguin, in whom they saw a messiah, the Nabis are first of all young Symbolist painters passionate about esotericism...
gerard van weyenbergh
Apr 21, 20202 min read
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