| Characteristics | Art Movement | Founding/Associated Artist |
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| draw upon Western classical art and culture | |
| beauty of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities | |
| style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see | |
| art should capture absolute truths which are only accessed by indirect highly metaphorical subjects | |
| emphasis on the accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities | |
| extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations | |
| Group of Science-based interpretation of lines and colors | |
| style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours | |
| organic, floral and other plant-inspired motifs, highly stylized, flowing curvilinear forms | |
| emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over representational or realistic values | |
| objects are broken up, analyzed, re-assembled in abstracted form | |
| emphasis on youth, speed, power and technology | |
| based on the idea that color and sound are similar phenomena | |
| present the world in an utterly subjective perspective, distorting it for emotional effect, evoking moods or ideas | |
| only primary colours and non-colours, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical line | |
| | Characteristics | Art Movement | Founding/Associated Artist |
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| focused on fundamental geometric forms (the square and circle) | |
| to ridicule what its participants considered the meaninglessness of the modern world | |
| works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur | |
| combination of emotional intensity and self-denial with anti-figurative aesthetic | |
| formats of stripes, targets, simple geometric patterns and references to landscape imagery | |
| landscape and work of art are inextricably linked, an art form created in nature, using natural materials | |
| the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features | |
| abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space | |
| abrupt transitions are found between color areas, color areas are often one unvarying color | |
| portraying recognizable objects in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies | |
| mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with perspective of fine art | |
| based on using photographs to gather information and then creating a painting that appears very realistic | |
| idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns | |
| various flattened forms in Japanese graphic art, animation, pop culture and fine arts | |
| figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art | |
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