impressionism attempt to catch the overall feeling or impression of light falling on a real life...

Impressionism

Attempt to catch the overall feeling or impression of LIGHT falling on a real life

Pissaro, Monet, Renoir

Postimpressionism(also called expressionism)

Attempt to portray emotion and imagination

Increasingly non-representational over time, instead fascinated with form and

van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse

Cubism

Geometric designs as visual stimuli to recreate reality in the viewer’s mind – often from

different viewpoints simutaneously.

Some paintings come close to being abstract, but they still depict something recognizable (if

just barely)

Picasso

Abstract Painting

Avoid representation altogether

Kandinsky

Dadaism

Delighted in outrageous conduct

Wanted to enshrine the purposelessness of life

Duchamp, Hoch

Surrealism

Seeking a reality beyond the material, sensible world

Combined wild dreams (a Freudian influence) and complex symbols,

recognizable objects divorced from their normal context

Dali, Magritte

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