Soft style

soft style see international Gothic surrealism Surrealism attempted to bring messages from the subconscious to the surface with unexpected association of ideas, thus it rejected artistic methods controlled by mind.

In painting and sculpture, the style is sometimes known in German as the "Schöne Stil" or "Weicher Stil" ("Beautiful style" or "Soft style").

soft style
A name given to the style found principally in Germany (where it is called Weiche Stil), at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries.

According to tradition the founder of the Kano school was Kano Masanobu (1434-1530), who began painting in the soft style of his master Shubun, and then developed a more decorative expression in remarkably clear and balanced compositions, ...

An enormous change in art has taken place. We see the so called "Beautiful -" or "Soft Style", a luxurious, refined fashion again, with a slim silhouette.
Uniquely the ideal of a beautiful female body was having a belly and looking pregnant! ...

found in German painting and sculpture is known as the soft style characterized by softly flowing drapery and a sweetness of sentiment which found particular expression in the representation of the Madonna and Child (Schone Madonnen).

See also: Painting, Roman, Renaissance, Sculpture, The style