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Methods of Presenting The Subjects

1. REALISM
- It is the detailed and accurate representation in the art of the visual
appearance of scenes and objects. And it is a practice in art and literature to
nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization.
(www.britannica.com)

Bonjour, Monsieur Corbet, 1854. A realist painting by Gustave Courbet

2. ABSTRACTION
- Is a painting in which the subject is not realistically presented or even
recognized, but rather is suggested by an emotional flow of paint. And it
also an artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purpose.
(www.en.m.wikipedia.org)

Robert Delaunay, 1912-1913, Le Premier Disque, 134cm, 52.7 inches, Private

collection. A piece of abstract art.
3. SURREALISM
- It created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting
technique that allowed the unconscious to express itself. It resolve the
previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute
reality.
(www.en.m.wikipedia.org)

Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921, Tate London

4. SYMBOLISM
- It was a reaction in favour of spirituality, the imagination and dreams. It was
largely a reaction against naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic styles which
were attempts to represent reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate
the humble and the ordinary over the ideal.
(www.en.m.wikipedia.org)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix c. 1864-1870

5. FAUVISM
- It is characterized as strong colours and fierce brushwork. It can also been
seen as a form of expressionism in its use of brilliant colors and spontaneous
brushwork.
(www.en.m.wikipedia.org)
6. DADAISM
- It is an art that expresses violence, war and nationalism. It is not so much
style of art, it was more a protest movement with an anti-establishment
manifesto.
(www.tate.org.uk.com)

MAN RAY ( 1890-1976), ‘ Cadeau (Gift)’ 1921 (Flat Iron with Brass Tacks)

7. EXPRESSIONISM
- It refers to art in which the image of reality is distorted in order to make it
expressive of the artist’s inner feelings or ideas. It is an artistic style in which
the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective
emotions responses that objects and events arouse within a person.
(www.en.m.wikipedia.org)

The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893) wich inspired 20th century

 Wassily Kandisky, Cossacks 1910
8. IMPRESSIONISM
- It is a work of art that constructed their pictures from freely brushed colours
that took precedence over lines and contours. They portrayed overall visual
effects instead of details, and use short “broken” brushes strokes of mixed
and pure unmixed colors to achieve an effect of intense color vibration.
(www.en.m.wikipedia.org)

Claude Monet, Impression, Soleil Levant (Impression Sunrise), 1872, oil on

canvas, Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris.