Artists of all times and peoples painted only what they wanted. They depicted the world on canvas as they saw it. To convey their feelings, emotions, colors, shades and the play of shadows to other people is very problematic, so they created new drawing styles and techniques. Of course, you cannot categorize all art into several categories, but it helps to see the big picture and create the right one.
impression. As in the case of clothing, in the visual
arts there is a fashion for certain styles that change from time to time. Let’s see what main categories they are represented today.
Abstractionism
This direction is not recognized by many ordinary people, because in the paintings you can not see the usual shapes and colors for us. But it is precisely on this that artists emphasize. The term itself in translation means removal or distraction from reality. The main goal is to achieve harmony of forms and shades of colors, thereby causing certain contemplations in the contemplator. The founder was Vasily Kandinsky, but perhaps the most famous work of art was the "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich.
Impressionism
The drawing styles of this direction recreate the impressions of what they saw, the form does not matter. Paintings, as a rule, are created with vigorous strokes, and small details are practically absent. A direction began in France at the end of the 19th century. The main thing for the artist was not what he paints, but how it looks on canvas. The problem of this style can be called excessive positivity and the complete absence of social problems, as a result, this led to a split among the impressionists.
Bright representative was Claude Monet ("Impression. The Rising Sun")
Surrealism
A distinctive feature of this style are allusions and incredible combinations of shapes and sizes of objects. The one who brought this ideology to art was Andre Breton, and Salvador Dali was the most prominent follower. If you describe the paintings in a nutshell, they are more likely to be something in between a dream and reality. The drawing styles in this direction were far from rational aesthetics, since the usual details appear before us in an elongated, enlarged or too reduced form, not to mention the fact that their combination itself is absurd.
Realism
The drawing styles we started with are far from reality, but realism is still considered the most common trend.
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art, this ability to display on a piece of paper what we see in the right proportions and in natural colors.
Hyperrealism
But modern drawing styles, hyperrealism, for example, are so believable that they look more like photographs than drawing. It is this moment that makes us stand still at the sight of paintings written by representatives of this direction. In portraits, you can see every hair, the slightest glare in the eyes, and even wrinkles. And from city landscapes goosebumps run. Now you know what drawing styles are, and you can safely go to the exhibition, not being afraid to make yourself an absolute amateur in this matter.