Rococo

Referred as Late Baroque which is an 18th century that gave up their symmetry and become increasingly more orate, florid and playful.Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings.

Fauvism

Fauvism is a style of les fauves (French for wild beast). Its a short lived and loose group of early 20th century modern artist whose work emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.

Photorealism

Photorealism is the genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and then from this information by creating a painting that appears to be very realistic. The term is applied to paintings from the United States Art Movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Less is More

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music. It is rooted in aspects of Modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism.

American Gothic

American Gothic by Grant Wood 1930

I did not know that the man and woman in this painting was father and daughter. Woods inspiration came from a cottage designed in the Gothic Revival. He painted the house along with the kind of people he thought should lived there. 

Famous Painting

Edvard Munch is the artist of this famous expressionist painting. He has painted several different versions of this painting. The Munch Museum holds one of two painted versions and one pastel version. The National Gallery of Norway holds the other painted version and the fourth one, in pastel, is owned by Petter Olsen.

Ellis Wilson

Is a African American artist who painted the famous Haitian Funeral Procession. This painting was used in the famous TV show, The Cosby Show.