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Does art really have the power to change the world? Many would argue that it does and that it already has.

Art is influential and has impacted culture, music, and even advertising. Some periods of art are found to be a bit more influential than others. What are the different art styles that had an impact on art throughout history?

Read on to learn about the most influential art styles

1. Ancient Art

Ancient art is considered to be from the height of the Roman and Greek civilizations. Many of these works of art are in the form of sculptures and in architecture. The level of detail that is found in stone from that era is unparalleled.

Has ancient art impacted today’s world? Take a look at your shoes. If you’re wearing Nike shoes, you’re actually wearing a bit of art history and mythology. The name Nike comes from Greek mythology, and the swoosh represents the wing of victory.

Nike was the goddess of victory. The most famous ancient statue of Nike is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which can be found in the Louvre.

2. Abstract Art

Abstract art is the use of color and shapes to blur the lines of reality. Where other influential forms of art focused on realism, abstract art took a completely different direction.

This style is viewed to be more creative and a complete form of individual expression. Whatever is in the artist’s head is what goes on the canvas.

Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky are two of the most well-known abstract painters. Their brilliance could be hard to see because, at first glance, a canvas would just look like paint splatter.

Claes Oldenberg took the abstract form to another level, creating abstract sculptures of everyday items. These works are mostly oversized sculptures made from vinyl.

3. Still Life Movement

Have you ever scrolled on Instagram and came across a mouth-watering image of food? Food photography is all the rage, but you can trace its roots all the way back to the 17th Century Dutch still life masters.

The early still life images were focused on realism, capturing light to create moody images that showcased the wealth of an individual.

In the 20th Century, Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso were among the artists who gave still life imagery an abstract look, using bright colors and odd shapes.

Admiring the Different Art Styles

Throughout human history, art has been a part of our lives. Whether people were drawing pictures of buffalo in a cave or building a monument to the gods, art gives us an opportunity to admire and reflect.

The different art styles have been shaped by the times. In ancient times, it was common to devote stone statues to the gods and goddesses. In the 17th Century, art was used in still life imagery to convey wealth and prosperous times. In other times, art was a form of rebellion, shining a light on inequities.

Art has the power to influence culture and promote change. It always has.

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Art Movement research

Bauhaus 

Bauhaus is where Modernism in architecture grew from, it is a German school of architecture and design, initially established in 1919 by Walter Gropius along with Marcel Breuer and other designers.

Bauhaus translates from German to ‘house of building’ which means “building house”, since then it was understood as meaning “School of building”.

The founder of Bauhaus was an architect but the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during its first years.

One of the main goals of this movement was to create a relationship between manufacturing and creativity as there was a fear that art was losing its purpose in society. They are responsible for the creation of one of the most famous and most used fonts: San Serif and Bauhaus. The artist “Herbert Bayer” felt that typeface was the clearest form of communication and artistic expression.

In 1928, Hannes Meyer took over as Gropius stepped down as director.

Under Meyers control advertising and photography continued but the social function became stressed more as it was designing for mass production. Due to the pressure , Meyer also resigned from the position of director and was replaced by the architect Ludwig Mies der Rohe who increased the emphasis of architecture. After Mies took over in 1930, the Bauhaus was relocated to Berlin and reduced scale.

A fact is that  “ Some of the greatest modern artists and designers of the 20th century studied or taught at the Bauhaus including: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Mies Van Der Rohe, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, and Marianne Brandt.” it says on www.archilover.com 

During the rise of the Nazi power in Germany, Bauhaus were labelled “degenerate” and many of their artworks and designs were destroyed, causing it to dissolve the group in 1933 and shut its doors.

It was revealed at a 2009 exhibition at the Neue Museum in Weimar, that the Nazi later moved on the functionality of the Bauhaus design to build concentration camps such as Buchenwald.

In the 1930s there were many German Jewish  architects who migrated to British Mandate of Palestine. They made around 4,000 Bauhaus or International styles buildings. This collection is names “The White City of Tel Aviv”.

Next year will mark the hundreth year of Bauhaus and the school  will be turning 100 (in 2019).

Germany has plans to celebrate in a 3 year celebratory program that will involve three museums housed in the former school in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, but also at least 10 of the country’s  16 federal states will participate so several exhibitions, events, publications and new museums are expected.

This movement influenced mainly the area of Graphic Design and to make it they needed tools like paint, erasers, airbrushes, and other art supplies were necessary in any studio as was a steady hand and a keen eye for color and shadow.

DADA

Dada is a new artistic and literary movement founded in 1916. It is almost impossible to define as it cannot be reduced to a single form of expression.

Nevertheless, the movement is generally regarded as being anti bourgeois and anarchically. Dada art is a crazy, wild and nonsensical movement.

It was founded in Zurich in 1916 when the First World War raged throughout the majority of Europe. Many artists and intellectuals migrated to Zurich, in a neutral location ‘Switzerland’  where they were able to create exile art.

At that time Zurich, was a place of refuge, and became the main area for the European avant grade.

On February 5th , 1916, Hugo Ball ahd what will be his future wife, Emma Hennings, opened Voltairebartists tavern at Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich’s Niederdorf quarter. After this it became one of the most popular meeting locations for many like minded international artists.

The origin of the name ‘Dada’, is from the french word for “rocking horse” and is said that it was picked at random whilst going through a German-French dictionary.  Another version claims that the name derives from the Russian word “da”, meaning “yes”. Yet another maintains that the Dadaists were inspired by the soap manufacturer, Bergmann & co., which had a rocking horse as its logo.

The founding members came from different countries such as: Germany, Rumania, France, only Sophie Taeuber Arp, the wife of Hans (Jean) Arp, was from Switzerland.

Hugo Ball left the group after just a few months and went into new exile in Tocono, where he completely devoted himself to mystical Catholism.

In 1923, Surrealism was founded, which many Dadaists joined. 

https://www.zuerich.com/en/visit/10-facts-about-dada

Russian constructivism

The Russian Constructivism was the last and most influential movement in 20th century Russia, It borrows ideas from the Cubism, Suprematism and Futurism, the movement served as the conduit for the  hopes and ideas of Russian constructivism, it allows them to portray their vision of a democratic and modernized Russian Revolution.

It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and initially it acted as a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolution's goals.

The Tatlin’s Tower, was a Monument that was modelled but never built. It was meant to stand taller and more functional than the Eiffel Tower, soaring up to 1,300 feet. By 1920′s two more models  were produced and if there weren’t any short of materials, the projects would have been fully realized.

Malevich and Kandinsky believed that art should remain a spiritual activity rather than a meaning of serving utilitarian needs of society; whilst Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchencko devoted to communism by pursuing industrial design, visual communication and applied arts.