Anachronisms

The term "anachronism" arose as the combination of the two Greek words: ana — back, against and chronos — time, and it refers to the assignment of an event, character, location to another time period that is different from the current one. In other words, anachronism in painting is a creative technique suggesting the actions or phenomena of the depicted historical moment be attributed to another time period.

An example of a clear anachronism is the ministers' clothes in the painting 'The Tribute Money." Masaccio portrayed Christ and the apostles dressed in traditional clothes typical of the time being described. And the officers are dressed in the clothes that are modern for Masaccio himself — short camisoles and very tight trousers (however, to see them, perhaps you should visit the Brancacci Chapel, as their presence in the photo of the artwork is very implicit).

Modern anachronists (hyper-mannerists) take the ideas of their works from the works of the Renaissance

The Renaissance is the period that began around the 14th century and ended at the late 16th century, traditionally associated primarily with the Italian region. The ideas and images of the Renaissance largely determined the aesthetic ideals of modern man, his sense of harmony, measure and beauty. Read more

, Baroque

The baroque style replaced the Renaissance, and it sought to shock the soul, in contrast to the Renaissance art, which kept the distance between an artwork and the audience. It surely succeeded: the pictorial pearls of those times are the true treasures. Read more

and Mannerism

Mannerism (it. maniera — manner) is a Western European literary and artistic style, that was popular in the 16th — first third of the 17th century. That was the time of the peak in art of posing and the love of artsy poses. Read more

artists, interpreting them in a new way. In their works, art quotes and parodies of the past centuries artists are clearly visible, as they are woven into a postmodern context. The works by hyper-mannerists are characterized by a critical analysis of historical artistic heritage from the standpoint of conceptual art.

The conceptual art quotes used by hyper-mannerists form the artist’s easily recognizable artistic style; for example, the works by Oleksandr Roitburd.
The bright modern representatives of this trend are Carlo Maria Mariani,, Omar Galliani, Luigi Ontani, Stefano di Stasio, Ubaldo Bartolini, Antonio Abbate, Jean Garouille.