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Art movements and techniąues

Impressionism

Paris-based movement of the 1870s and 1880s, aimed to paint what artists actually saw.

Cubism

Avant-garde art movement in early 1900s using abstract cubelike forms.

Art Deco

Art Design movement uses geometrie shapes—a popular form in the 1920s to early 1940s.

Surrealism

Cultural movement that spread in the 1930s, known for “liquid” images and distorted distances.

Pop Art

Bright Pop Art images mimie advertising and popular culture in the 1950s and 1960s.

How to: paint like Jackson Pollock

v i ■ Drip runny paint from a brush onto a canvas. Jackson Pollock preferred gloss enamel paint.

Pierce a hole in a paint can. Swirl the dripping can over the canvas a few times.

Experiment

with other paint-dripping techniques until your artwork is complete.

Tell me morę: murals

Van Gogh

01: Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who ]lved from 1853-1890.

02: His best-known works are paintings of sunflowers.

03: The masterpieces were painted in Paris and Arles, France.

04: Van Gogh died poor, but today his paintings are worth millions.

/Mural artists think big They paint on large surfaces, especially blank walls.

/One of the most famous mural artists is Diego Rivera, who founded an art movement in the 1930s called Mexican Muralism.

/Ancient Egyptians and Greeks, 2nd century Indian Buddhists, and Medieval and Renaissance artists all painted art on walls.

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