Impressionism - a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a

concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of
light and color.

Expressionism - a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express
emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

Cubism - an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with
a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes,
and, later, collage.

Dadaism - A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic
and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.

Surrealism - a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the
creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Abstract Realism - is an art movement that is not easily defined because it is a marriage of two
contradictory terms, Abstract art and Realistic art. Abstract art has no reference to real objects. The
abstract artist uses lines, shapes, colours, texture and pattern to create a rhythm.

Pop art - art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic
comment on traditional fine art values.

Op art - a form of abstract art that gives the illusion of movement by the precise use of pattern and
color, or in which conflicting patterns emerge and overlap. Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely are its most
famous exponents.

Performance art - an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance.

Principles of art - Balance, emphasis, movement, proportion, rhythm, unity, and variety; the means an
artist uses to organize elements within a work of art. Rhythm. A principle of design that indicates
movement, created. by the careful placement of repeated elements in a work of art to cause a visual
tempo or beat.

Rhythm - a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Movement an act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed.

Balance - an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.

Emphasis - special importance, value, or prominence given to something.

Harmony - the combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce chords and chord
progressions having a pleasing effect.

Unity - the state of being united or joined as a whole.

Variety - the quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity, sameness, or
monotony.

Proportion - a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.