Art Movements
Art movements are the big ideas and shared styles that group artists together across time, even when they never met or worked in the same country. A movement usually grows out of a shared reaction, against tradition, against realism, against the rules of the day, and it gives later viewers a way to make sense of why a piece looks the way it does. This section is home to the movements featured on WooArts, from the soft light of Impressionism to the dream logic of Surrealism. Explore each one to see how an idea about art can spread, change, and shape whole generations of painters and sculptors.
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Surrealism Explained: Dreams, Strange Objects and the Art of the Impossible | Art Movements
What is Surrealism? A clear guide to the movement that turned dreams, chance and the subconscious into serious subjects for fine art.
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Impressionism Explained: How a Rejected Style Taught Us to See Light | Art Movements
What is Impressionism? A clear guide to how a group of rejected Paris painters changed art by chasing light, color and the feeling of a passing moment.
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Liu Bolin | Art Movements
Spot Liu Bolin if you can. Follow the Beijing artist from a demolished studio to photographs where he vanishes into walls, flags and supermarket shelves.
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100 Art Terms Every Art Lover Should Know: Movements, Styles & Ideas | Art Movements
Explore 100 essential art terms, movements, styles and ideas—from Cubism and avant-garde to primitivism, abstraction and chiaroscuro.
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Cubism Explained: History, Artists, Phases & Legacy | Art Movements
What is Cubism? A clear guide to its roots, the Analytic and Synthetic phases, key artists from Picasso to Gris, offshoots like Orphism, and why the movement still matters.
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Françoise Nielly | Art Movements
Françoise Nielly is a French painter known for electric, palette knife portraits built from thick oil and saturated color. Working from black and white photographs, she paints faces with a raw, confrontational energy that has carried her work across Europe, North America, and Asia.
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Pablo Solari | Art Movements
Pablo Solari is an Argentine painter who taught himself by studying classical masters and muralists before developing his own bold, socially rooted style. His large, saturated canvases capture everyday Argentine life, from vineyards to city crowds, often with figures who avoid the viewer’s eye.
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Andrew Salgado | Art Movements
Andrew Salgado is a Canadian painter known for large, emotionally charged portraits built with wild color and texture. Since moving from Regina to London, he has built a career of sold out exhibitions, a documentary, and a major monograph on his work.
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Laurent Parcelier | Art Movements
Laurent Parcelier is a French painter whose sunlit scenes of Provence and the Luberon feel like an endless warm afternoon. He started his career drawing comics before turning fully to painting in 1996, developing a style built from tiny sparks of light and quiet, peaceful spaces.
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Denis Sarazhin | Art Movements
Denis Sarazhin is a Ukrainian painter known for dynamic figures caught in twisting poses, with expressive hands that carry as much emotion as the faces around them. Trained at the Kharkiv Art and Design Academy, he builds his scenes from everyday gestures and small, powerful observations.
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Leon Roulette | Art Movements
Leon Roulette is an American painter working in the Impressionist tradition, chasing the same soft glowing light that drew painters to the style a century ago. He paints everywhere from Alaska to Venice, and once worked as an artist for Disney and Warner Bros.
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Agostino Arrivabene | Art Movements
Agostino Arrivabene is an Italian painter who works like a modern alchemist, grinding his own pigments and blending old master technique with dreamlike, symbolic visions. Trained at Brera and shaped by close study of Leonardo, Dürer, and Bosch, he explores themes of death, light, and rebirth.
