Art Collecting

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What styles of art do you like or collect?

Realism art.
Photorealism Art.
Painterly Art Style.
Impressionism Painting.
Abstract Art.
Surrealism art.
Pop Art.

Realism Art:

Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

An artistic movement that began in France in the 1840s after the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement.

Photorealism Art

Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media. The artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

Painterly Art Style

The term painterly is used to describe a painting done in a style that celebrates the medium that it was created in, be it oil paint, acrylics, pastels, gouache, watercolor, etc., rather than a style that tries to hide the act of creation or the medium used.
Painterly is a term which describes a set of qualities which are perceived as being distinct to the art of painting. These qualities include the use of color, stroke and texture. ... Artists with apainterly style include Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent and Richard Schmid.

Impressionism Painting

Abstract Art

San Francisco by Artist Ron Turner

Abstract is art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. Wassily Kandinsky. Cossacks 1910–1. Tate. Strictly speaking, the wordabstract means to separate or withdraw something from something else.

Surrealism Art

Surrealism. A movement in art and literature that flourished in the early twentieth century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. Salvador Dali was an influential surrealist painter; Jean Cocteau was a master of surrealist film.

Pop Art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.

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