... , Dutch merchants, and the farming community. Some Dutch paintings were of carefully arranged subjects. These were know as "still life" paintings. Another style known as "genre" showed everyday scenes in clean, private households. One famous painter from this time period was Rembrant. Early in his career ... . Many buildings and townhouses were decorated using these styles. Rococo rooms were more decorative and ornamental than the ones decorated in Neoclassical style. Rococo paintings were usually bright with happy, well-dressed people enjoying themselves outdoors. Neoclassical artists pa...

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... Cézanne amazed Picasso in that the different shapes gave so many possibilities in representing different people and objects. Picasso was becoming very successful using the ideas of Impressionists. His style changed, for the better, when he took a painting holiday at Gosol in the Pyrenees. The pictures he worked on there and after his return to home showed two new important ... in the foreground is presented from several sides at once. Cézanne's influence is seen in the geometrical angles and planes that would lead the critics to call Picasso's new style "Cubist-. This painting marked ...

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... current architectural criticism, the term formally and effectively describes the rejection of orthodox Modernist purity in favour of an updated Neo-classical ornamentation. Like art Deco, the last major international style, Post modern blends art history and new technology with a decorative tendency to achieve a broad-based commercially acceptable look. Characteristics include: kinetic geometry featuring floaty forms, randomly placed blips and lines ... , multiple fragmented lines and layered imagery, discordant, letter spaced typography and frequent references to art and design history....

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Cezanne - beyond Impressionism. Another artist who drew his inspiration from outdoors was Cezanne, who also had a distinct style of painting. To move away from the style of the broken colour of the impressionists, Cezanne devised a system of modulating the colours from a volume of cool to warm or light to dark. It seems to me that Cezanne ... ...

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... corruption of Louis the XVI's of France. Jacques-Louis David, Angelica Kauffman, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres all were leading neoclassical painters. David gave France a new look. Kauffman brought this style to the English eye. Ingres was one of David's students and his forms were smooth and sculptural with flattened space. Impressionism started as a group of young artists who were against ... the French art establishment known as the Academy. Although many of the artists had different styles they all were against the Academic style and the subject matter. They were more into natur...

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... inspired Matisse to experiment with his work, more then ever. Furthermore, artists such as Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh appear to have had a profound effect on Matisse's style. Later on, the pointillist technique used by Henri Edmond Cross and Paul Signac also proved to have a great influence on his work. The first and most prominent of the design ... principles is pattern. Pattern is evident on the tablecloth and on the back wall, occupying most of the composition. The pattern itself is an oriental-style design with branches weaving in and out amongst decorative flow...

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... to do with Western traditions or civilized experiences. The African type of art had a very literal representation of nature. As far as figure went, these artists were drawn to that style too. It features mask like faces, short or elongated limbs, wide torsos, and sexual parts. I feel that it is quite ironic that the Europeans came in and westernized the African ... ...

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... that could be built up by the use of pure unbroken colour. They tried to create those 'emotional shocks', those flashes of intuition like the images seen by a poet while writing a poem. The Fauves rejected the traditional uses of colour and sought instead new functions. They already believed that the artists presentation of his emotions or subjective reaction to the subject ... ...

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