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Synonyms and antonyms of Styles and methods in art in American Thesaurus
Styles and methods in art
abstract expressionism (noun)
a style in abstract art in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things rather than showing objects as they really appear
art deco (noun)
a style of art, decoration, and architecture with simple strong lines that was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe and the U.S.
art nouveau (noun)
a style of art, decoration, and architecture that uses curved patterns of leaves, flowers, and other natural objects, and was popular at the end of the 19th century in Europe and the U.S.
Arts and Crafts (adjective)
made in a style that returned to using patterns, materials, and methods that existed before industrial production, following ideas developed in England in the late 19th century
the avant-garde (noun)
art the art that is produced by avant-garde artists
camp (noun)
a style of art or entertainment that deliberately does not follow traditional ideas about what is considered good in order to produce a humorous effect
chiaroscuro (noun)
the way that light and dark areas create a pattern, especially in drawings and paintings
classicism (noun)
a style of art or literature based on ancient Greek and Roman styles that is beautiful in a simple controlled way
constructivism (noun)
art an artistic movement in which mechanical objects are combined into abstract forms
expressionism (noun)
a style in art, literature, and music in which the artist emphasizes emotions and reactions to things instead of objects as they really appear
futurism (noun)
a movement in art and literature in the early 20th century that used technology as its subject
genre (noun)
a particular style used in movies, writing, or art, which can be recognized by certain features
Gothic (adjective)
literature Gothic novels and movies have frightening and mysterious subjects
Gothic (noun)
idiom (noun)
a particular style in language, art, or music
Impressionism (noun)
art a style of painting in which artists use light and color to give the general feeling of a scene, rather than exact detail. Impressionism began in France in the middle of the 19th century.
lyricism (noun)
the expression of feeling in art
magical realism (noun)
magic realism (noun)
a type of literature or cinema in which very strange things happen in ordinary situations, as they do in dreams
medium (noun)
a particular type of art used as a way of expressing ideas or feelings
mode (noun)
formal a particular fashion or style of art, literature, clothes, etc.
motif (noun)
an idea, subject, or pattern that is frequently repeated in a piece of literature, art, etc.
naturalism (noun)
a style of art and literature that shows people as they are in real life
personification (noun)
the practice of showing a particular quality in the form of a person, or an instance of this
photorealism (noun)
a style of painting or drawing in which images look so real that they are hard to distinguish from photographs
postmodernism (noun)
ideas, attitudes, or styles of art, literature, or thinking that have developed after modernism, often as a reaction against it
psychedelia (noun)
music, art, or writing that is based on the experiences that people have when they are taking psychedelic drugs
romanticism (noun)
artliterature a style of literature, art, and music common at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries that emphasized the importance of personal feelings and of nature
still life (noun)
a type of art that represents objects instead of people, animals, or the countryside
surrealism (noun)
a 20th-century style of art and literature that tried to represent dreams and unconscious experience using unusual combinations of images