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.

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas | Art Movements

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas was a Spanish painter, born in 1932 in Cerdanyola del Valles into a family of Catalan nobility and artistic lineage, his grandfather having designed the Monument to Columbus in Barcelona. Self-taught and best known for his depictions of women, particularly the nape of the neck, he also painted portraits, nudes, horses…
David Cheifetz | Art Movements

David Cheifetz is an American realist painter, born in 1981, known for dark, hyper-realistic oil paintings that read like scenes from a dream. Working alla prima, wet paint into wet paint without underpainting or preliminary studies, he builds his dramatic, chiaroscuro-heavy compositions through confident, expressive brushwork. He trained at the Schuler School of Fine Arts…
Johannes Wessmark | Art Movements

Johannes Wessmark is a self-taught Swedish painter, born in Karlstad in 1962, who spent 15 years as an advertising illustrator before becoming a full-time fine artist in 2006. Working in acrylics and oils, he is known as the Thomas Arvid of Sweden for his photorealistic paintings of wine and bottles, alongside calm, water-themed figurative scenes…
Emanuele Dascanio | Art Movements

Emanuele Dascanio is an Italian hyperrealist painter, born in 1983 in Garbagnate Milanese, who left the Academy of Brera after six months and instead trained under mentor Gianluca Corona starting in 2007. Working in oil, charcoal and graphite, he creates still lifes and portraits with obsessive, photographic precision, exploring the boundary between light and darkness.…
Omar Ortiz | Art Movements

Omar Ortiz is a Mexican painter, born in Guadalajara in 1977, who studied graphic design before devoting himself fully to oil painting after taking classes with Carmen Alarcon in 2002. His hyperrealist, largely white-toned paintings focus on the human figure draped in fabric, rendered with a precision so exact it seems to invite touch. Critics…
Robert Krogle | Art Movements

Robert Krogle is an American painter born in Santa Monica, California, who served in Vietnam with the California Army National Guard and earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart before building a 31 year career as a commercial illustrator for clients like Continental Airlines and Mattel. In 1992 he moved to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and…
Diego Koi | Art Movements

DiegoKoi, born Diego Fazio in Lamezia Terme, Italy, in 1989, is a self-taught hyperrealist artist who began as a tattoo artist before turning to pencil drawing. Working only in graphite on paper, he builds his pieces over hundreds of hours, capturing skin, water, and reflections with photographic precision. His close-up portraits of eyes, lips, and…
Angel Planells | Paintings | Art Movements

Angel Planells was a Spanish surrealist painter born in 1901 in Cadaques, the same coastal town that produced Salvador Dali, where he grew up around established local artists. He joined the Catalan surrealist group Logicofobista in 1936 and exhibited his painting Midday Sorrow at the landmark International Surrealist Exhibition in London that year, a work…
Caras Ionut | Art Movements

Caras Ionut is a self-taught Romanian photographer and digital artist based in Iasi, who spent over a decade working at sea before discovering photography and teaching himself Photoshop. He blends ordinary photographs with digital manipulation to build surreal, dreamlike scenes rendered in cool blues and whites, favoring imagery that leans toward the wonder of dreams…
Mohamed Khedr | Art Movements

Mohamed Khedr is an Egyptian painter born in 1970 who graduated from Helwan University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and later earned a diploma in folk art from the Arts Academy in Cairo. His realist and impressionist paintings capture everyday life in Cairo along with Egyptian singers, thinkers, and cultural heroes. He has exhibited across Egypt…
Symbolism Art | Art Movements

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement that turned away from the realistic, everyday scenes of Impressionism in favor of dreamlike, imaginative worlds drawn from myth, religion, and emotion. French critic Jean Moréas coined the term in 1886, and the style soon spread across Europe through painters like Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon in France,…
James Ensor | Art Movements

James Ensor was a Belgian painter born in Ostend in 1860, now seen as a key forerunner of Expressionism and Surrealism. After early realist works, he turned in the mid-1880s toward carnival masks, skeletons, and grotesque crowds, using harsh colors and jagged brushwork to mock the vanity and pettiness he saw in people. His huge…