"The other day I was once again asked to speak on a current Art Trend. I responded yes, if I could first present Rhythmism. The Curator then asked, "What is Rhythmism?" I said it was cultivated in the B.A.G. Artists Guild in the early 1970s and has been the core of my Artistic practices since that period.

 Then I offered a little schooling that went like this."

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years. 

Art movements were especially important in modern art, when each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde movement. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurative art). By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new style which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy (abstract art).

The five categories of fine art painting, listed in order of their official ranking or importance, are as follows:

1. History Painting Religious, historical or allegorical work, with a moral message.

2. Portrait Art Includes individual, group or self-portraits.

3. Genre Painting Scenes of everyday life.

4. Landscape Painting Paintings whose principal content is a scenic view.

5. Still Life Painting

Types of Art

Art: 

Definition and Meaning The meaning of beauty and art is explored in the branch of philosophy called aesthetics. 

Fine Art Includes: drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.

Visual Art Includes: fine arts, certain contemporary arts (eg. ...

Decorative Art Broadly synonymous with crafts. ...

What are artist styles?

Style is often divided into the general style of a period, country or cultural group, group of artists or art movement, and the individual style of the artist within that group style.

Divisions within both types of styles are often made, such as between "early", "middle" or "late".

According to theories associated with modernism and the concept of postmodernism, art movements are especially important during the period of time corresponding to modern art. The period of time called "modern art" is posited to have changed approximately halfway through the 20th century and art made afterward is generally called contemporary art. Postmodernism in visual art begins and functions as a parallel to late modernist and refers to that period after the "modern" period called contemporary art.

The postmodern period began during late modernism (which is a contemporary continuation of modernism), and according to some theorists postmodernism ended in the 21st century. During the period of time corresponding to "modern art" each consecutive movement was often considered a new avant-garde.

"From various Art Appreciation Sources:" Instead of my more colorful delivery!"

Two of Chicago's vital Black Futurists: Prof. Turtel Onli founder / publisher of Rhythmism: the Future-Primitif approach to the visual arts and Ytasha Womack author / researcher on all things Afrofuture. Caught kicking it at the recent Pocket Con Event at the downtown Chicago Cultural Center.  Onli is a Future-Primitif vintage visual artist whose practice started when he was a teen-wunderkind in the Black Art Movement in the late 1960s. He is still flowing from the Rhythmic Zone.

Ytasha is the author / researcher of the landmark book, "Afrofuturism". Both went world-wide from the South Side .......of Chicago!
 

Ytasha and Turtel can be found at Comic Cons, Musuem Stores, Universities and Galleries Not to mention in major collections too.  The Chicago connection!

Wesley Sun, Joe Currie & Ytasha Womack in Chicago!

"What$ in your collections?"

ONLI STUDIOS LINK!