HA2 Task 2 - Artistic Styles

HA2 – Task 2 – Artistic Styles

PHOTOREALISM

“Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic mediums, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be used to broadly describe artworks in many different mediums, it is also used to refer specifically to a group of paintings and painters of the United States art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorealism

http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/409821791

CEL SHADING

“Cel shading (often misspelled as 'cell shading') or toon shading is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make 3-D computer graphics appear to be flat by using less shading colour instead of a shade gradient or Tints and shades. Cel-shading is often used to mimic the style of a comic book or cartoon. It is somewhat recent, appearing from around the beginning of the twenty-first century. The name comes from cels (short for celluloid), the clear sheets of acetate which are painted on for use in traditional 2D animation”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shading

 

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/06/the-new-borderlands-look-that-almost-wasnt/

ABSTRACTION

“Abstract art uses a visual language of form, colour and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_art

 

http://claytonkashuba.com/

EXAGGERATION

“Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle's discussion of the amazon: 'the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished qualities which he possesses either not at all or to a lesser degree than he pretends...exaggerating”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaggeration

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/patrick-strogulski