Name That Style: All about Isms in Art

Name That Style introduces readers to fourteen different schools of painting, from Mannerism to Romanticism to Surrealism. Each section includes a reproduction of a painting that embodies that school's most important characteristics, as well as an explanation of which elements in the painting are paradigmatic. Readers learn where and when the school was popular, who painted the most famous examples, and, in some cases, which techniques were used to attain the style's particular effects. Introduction. Full-color reproductions of paintings.