FAUVISM

Fauvism was a relatively short movement on

French painting at the beginning of the 20th
century which came about tas art shifted
from Post-Impressionism to Cubism.

They revolutionized the concept of color in

modern art. the faves rejected the
impressionist palette of soft, shimmering
tones in favor of the violent colors by the
impressionists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van
Gogh for exprssive emphasis.
They achieved a poetic energy through
vigorous line, simplified yet dramatic surface
pattern, and intense color.

The Open Window, Collioure (oil on canvass, 1905)

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
CUBISM Cubism is one of the most influential art movements
of the 2oth century. Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque were the two most famous Cubists of the 20th
Century. (Fernandez, 2009)

Paul Cezanne- father of Cubism

Georges Seurat- the prime-mover of neoimpressionism

Cubism falls into major two periods.

Analytic Cubism- fragments the physical world inti

intersecting geometric planes and interpenetrating
volumes. with the colors limited only to tones of gray
and brown .

Synthetic Cubism- replaces the former's complexity

and monochrome coloring with brghter hues. it
comnines abstract shapes to represent objects in an
new way.
The Three Musicians (1921)
Pablo Picasso
DADAISM
Dada- often describe as nihilistic--- that is rejecting all moral
values; dadaists considered their movement an affirmation of life
in the face of death.

Dadaists created works using accident, chance and anything that

understood the irrationality of humanity (making poems out of
pieces of newspaper chosen at random, speaking nonsesical
syllables out loud, displaying everyday objects as art).

The movement flourished mainly in the year 1916 to 1922:

• Switzerland
• France
• Germany

Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2

Marcel Duchamp
SURREALISM
Surrealism was a movement of art and
literature that developed principally in the
20th century, stressing the subconsious or
non-rational significance of imagery arrived
at by automatism or the exploitation of
chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions,
etc.

-emphasis was on positive expression

-was a means of reuniting conscious and
uncoscious realms of experience so
completely that the world of dream and
fantasy wuld be joined to the everyday
rational world in “an absolute reality, as
surreality.”
The Lovers
Rene Magritte