Style Time Line.

- Art Brut - 

Art Brut as an art for appeared around 1945, created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture. Art Brut is also called “Art of the insane” or “Outsider Art”.

Some noticeable artist are Nek Chand, Henry Darger, Ferdinand Cheval, Madge Gill, Alexandre Lobanov, Martin Ramirez, Achilles Rizzoli 

- Digital Art -

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital

technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process.
Existed since 1970s.


Famous artists: Yvonne Hakkert, Gary Tonge

- Impressionism - 

Impressionism can be defined as a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based painters who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s.

Impressionist Paintings were charcterized by visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (giving the impression of the passage of time), subject matters which werent out of the ordinary and innovative angles.

Famous artist: Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet.

- Graffiti -

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

The earliest forms of Graffiti date back to 30000 BCE.

Famous artists: Banksy, Cool Chaser.

- Typographic Style -

Typographic style is the art and technique of arranging types, type design, and modifying

type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning).

The typographical principle, that is the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters, was first realized in the Phaistos Disc, an enigmatic Minoan print item from Crete, Greece, which dates between 1850 and 1600 BC.

Famous artists: Aerosyn Lex Mestrovich, Craig Ward.

- Lyrical Abstraction -  

Lyrical Abstraction is a French style of abstract painting current in the 1945 -1960. It is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism.Famous artists: Arshile Gorky, Norman Bluhm

- Pluralism -

Pluralism, in painting, implies an eon on art scene, which is not specifically identified by a particular genus. The earlier eras in painting have been characterized by some underlying philosophies, where one artistic mode followed the other, in succession. Existed in the 20th century.

Famous artists: Annette Labedzki, Jonathan LeVine

- Realism -

Realism is a pragmatic approach to art in which subjects are presented in as straightforward a manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following rules of the formalist theories, appeared in the 19th century.

Famous artists: Johannes Vermeer, Hendrick Terbrugghen.

- Ukiyo-e -

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵 literally "pictures of the floating world") is a genre of Japanese woodblocks print (or woodcuts) and painting produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of wood block printing in Japan.

- Underground commix -

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics code authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence. They were most popular in the United States between 1968 and 1975 and in 1973 and 1974 in the United Kingdom.

Famous artists: Robert Dennis Crumb, Richard Alden Griffin.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.ethnicpaintings.com/popular-painting-styles/art-brut.html
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23757&page=12
http://ezinearticles.com/?Western-Painting---Pluralism---The-Multiplied-Art&id=3082948
http://www.braincrumbtrail.com/?p=47