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Graffiti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted.

To some, graffiti art is merely vandalism. But to many of our young generation, considered this as an art form that’s worth displaying in galleries and museums.

Graffiti started all over the world basically back when the cave men from them writings on the wall to the Egyptian time called hieroglyphics then in the urban times we just took from that and made it our sort of version we hate then more people took from that shaping it in different ways and different colors from names to art. 

Dating all the way back to 1 BC. 

Banksy

Ghostpatrol and Miso

Cubism

Popular cubism subjects are people or landscapes. They were represented as combinations of basic geometric shapes - sometimes showing multiple viewpoints of a particular image. 

This approach was related more to the way we see images in our 'minds-eye' rather than in real life, that is if we close our eyes and try to see an image, perhaps of a friend or a family member, it is often hard to visualise the 'whole' image - we usually see parts or fractured pieces. Cubist pictures are therefore often described as looking like pieces of fractured glass. 

Cubism was the first 'abstract' art style which began in the early 1900s when artists such as Georges Braque (French) and Pablo Picasso (Spanish) began painting in such a way that was far removed from traditional art styles.

Paul Cézanne 

picasso 

Toyism

Toyism is an art movement that rose to prominence in The Netherlands in the 1990s. Introduced by an artist using the pseudonym Dejo at the Veenmuseum in 1992, the toyist style of painting emphasizes narrative depictions featuring figurative rather than abstract objects focusing on aspects of the human condition. Stylistically, it features the heavy use of outlining, bold colors and craftsmanship. Toyist artists select a pseudonym and an icon which is incorporated into their paintings.

Miss Sassy

Mr. Dejo's

Art Deco

Art Deco ‎ is an eclectic artistic and design style that blossomed in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and jewelry, as well as the visual arts such as painting, graphic arts and film.

Art Deco's bold, linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the soft pastels and flowing asymmetrical organic forms

Hector Guimard 

Raoul Lachenal

Op Art

Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions.

"Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in only black and white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping

The term first appeared in print in Time magazine in October 1964, though works which might now be described as "op art" had been produced for several years previously. For instance, Victor Vasarely's painting, Zebras (1938), is made up entirely of curvilinear black and white stripes that are not contained by contour lines. Consequently, the stripes appear to both meld into and burst forth from the surrounding background of the composition.

Bridget Riley

Victor Vasarely

Naive art

Naive art is characterized by a refreshing innocence and the charming use of bright colors, child-like perspective and idiosyncratic scale. It portrays simple, easily-understandable and often idealized scenes of everyday life.

Brazil, the naive movement appeared at the end of the 1940s with the first exhibitions of Silvia de Leon Chalreo (1905-1987).

henri rousseau

Grandma Moses

International Typographic Style

Also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element in addition to its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named.

Hofmann 

Mueller-Brockmann 

Pop Art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States

Pop art is a style of art which explores everyday imagery common to contemporary consumer culture. Source of subject matter commonly includes advertisements, product packaging, celebrities, and comic strips. 

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Pixel Art

Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old (or relatively limited) computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art.

The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982. The concept, however, goes back about 10 years before that, for example in Richard Shoup's SuperPaint system in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.

Jason Huang

Gary J Lucken

eBoy

Shock art

Shock art is contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. While the art form's proponents argue that it is "embedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today".

Evolved in the 20th century.

Damien Hirst 

Andres Serrano

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