1212 ART MOVEMENTS with COLOUR AND LIGHT -by Gautam Shah
Some of the Art movements based on Colour and Light techniques during late 19th to early 20th C are very briefly discussed here.
Impressionism: The painters recorded nature in terms of the fleeting effects of the colour and light. The light was interpreted through various colours and the emotions one wanted to express.
Neo-Impressionism (1980-90): The French painters of late 19th C the theoretical (sensorial) and realist interpretations of the impressionists. The Neo-Impressionists (like Georges Seurat, Paul Signac), rather relied on ‘scientific optical principles of light and colour that became fashionable’ in the period.
Divisionism and Pointillism (1880-90s): These derived fro Seurat’s painting created by placement of dots of contrasting colours, to be perceived as a single tone. No lines were employed.
Orphism (1910-13) Orphism (also called Simultaneism, orphic cubism) gave priority to the light and brilliant colours. Orphism introduced non-objective painting with dynamic expanses of rhythmic form and chromatic scales.
Rayonism (1912-14) was a style of Russian abstract art of 1910–1914. It was based on the effect of dark colours on the semi-light tones for landscape or cityscapes.
Cloisonnism (1888-94) A style name coined from metalwork technique of ‘cloisonné’. It was a post-Impressionist painting manner, where areas of colour are separated by dark lines’.
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