impressionism attempt to catch the overall feeling or impression of light falling on a real life...
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Impressionism
Attempt to catch the overall feeling or impression of LIGHT falling on a real life
scene
Pissaro, Monet, Renoir
Postimpressionism(also called expressionism)
Attempt to portray emotion and imagination
Increasingly non-representational over time, instead fascinated with form and
shape
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
