Impressionism

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Impressionism

• Attempt to catch the overall feeling or
  impression of LIGHT falling on a real life scene
• Pissaro, Monet, Renoir

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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

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Cubism

• Geometric designs as visual stimuli to recreate
  reality in the viewers mind often from
  different viewpoints simutaneously.
• Some paintings come close to being abstract, but
  they still depict something recognizable (if just
  barely)
• Picasso

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Abstract Painting

• Avoid representation altogether
• Kandinsky

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Dadaism

• Delighted in outrageous conduct
• Wanted to enshrine the purposelessness of life
• Duchamp, Hoch

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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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