Art History: Famous Movements

European rebirth of classical learning, realism, and humanism.

Dramatic movement, contrast, emotion, and grandeur.

Order, symmetry, and inspiration from ancient Greece and Rome.

Emotion, nature, imagination, and individual experience.

Everyday subjects shown without idealization.

Loose brushwork and changing light in modern life scenes.

Personal expression, structure, and symbolic color after Impressionism.

Objects broken into geometric forms and multiple viewpoints.