Artistic Movements

Art, like history, is divided into 5 stages; prehistory, old age, middle age, modern age, and contemporary. But first of all we need to know what an artistic movement is: they are all those tendencies (referring to art) that follow a common philosophy or style (If you are limited to a group of artists in a specific place and time, you are talking about a artistic school, for example, the Sevillian school of painting.)
When we speak of artistic movements we also speak of '' styles '', the style is that which represents the artist , they are its characteristics, what unifies or distinguishes one artist from another. 'Style' comes from the Latin stilus ('punch'), written in medieval times as a stylus by the influence of the Greek term stylos, ('column'). In the past, it was called a type of punch to write on wax tablets; with time, he went on to designate both the instrument, as well as the work of the writer and his way of writing. The style can be either a set of formal characters, either individual - the way of writing, of composing or of elaborating a work of art on the part of an artist -, or collective - of a group, a time or a geographical place - , as an organic system of forms, in which it would be the conjunction of certain factors that would generate the way of working of the group.
The style studies the artist and his work the way in which it is materialized, his composition, the visual weight, the range of colors used, and even what the artist wanted to communicate in the work. From all these data, and more, the artistic style, whether of the work or of the author, is drawn to conclusion.
Within the styles we can get the phases, since each style is subject to an evolutionary dynamic that is usually cyclical, recurrent, perceptible to a greater or lesser degree in each historical period, this is where the "pre" and the "post" enter. (ex: pre-romanticism, post-impresionism) the "pre", as we already know speaks of what was before or the beginnings of said style, and the "post" is the same style but with advanced features towards the end of that style .
Now that we know this, we can enter the subject of artistic movements, which are the best known?

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• The Renaissance, (my favorite artistic movement) marks the beginning of the Modern Age, a historical period that is usually established between the discovery of America in 1492 and the French Revolution in 1789. The term "Renaissance" comes from Italian Rinascita and was coined by the artist and historian Giorgio Vasari in his Lives (1542-1550), alluding to the rebirth of classical culture after medieval obscurantism. Among its characteristics we can get a strong bond between art and nature, as well as paganism is introduced into Renaissance art as a counterpoint to the hermetic and closed world of the medieval in which God was the end of everything. We also find The "patronage": the upper classes sponsored and commissioned works constantly, since art was seen as an instrument of prestige and refinement, which led to a moment of great brilliance in all artistic disciplines. The main centers of patronage were the Florence of the Medici in the Quattrocento and the Papal Rome in the Cinquecento. It is often said that the renaissance house is Florence, Italy. Among its great artists we find authors such as: Da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari, Miguel Angel, and Masaccio. His main contribution was probably the sfumatofuente

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I invite you to investigate more about the history of art, this is hardly an appetizer of what the art world hides behind a smoke screen.