The representation of perspective is unscientific and the general vision seems childlike. Pop Back to top The Pop Art movement began in the USA and the UK in the 1950s. Pop Art takes it's inspiration from the typical images found in the consumer society and popular culture. Comics, advertising, and all the imagery that goes with mass production serve as an inspiration for Pop Art. Pop Art is often characterised by a miniscule attention to detail, sometimes with an almost photographic result.
Primitivism is modern art that seeks to return to the naivety of primitive art.
This is a deliberate attempt to reproduce the innocence of vision and expression found in children's drawing and primitive artworks. Realism Back to top Realism, as the word implies, is an artistic style that attempts to visually recreate the world around us. Surrealism Back to top Surrealism began in France in the 1920s. Surrealism is the artistic expression of the subconscious, the world of our dreams. Surrealist artwork often contains a disconcerting combination of everyday objects with fantasy, resulting in highly realistic yet illogical scenes, typically depicted with photographic attention to detail.