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Arts
 Modern art
• It usually refers to works produced during the
approximate period 1870-1970. Typically,
modern artists rejected previous Renaissance-
based traditions, in favor of new forms of
artistic experimentation
 Impressionism
• An art movement and style of painting that
started in France during the 1860s. It
characterizes as light, spontaneous manner
of painting
 3 characteristic of Impressionism
• Using short, quick brushstrokes and pure,
vibrant and light colors
• Capturing the effects of light
• Expressing a vision of fleeting moments in
time
 Édouard Manet
• This artist is credited with giving
Impressionism its name, though inadvertently.
An art critic became fixated on his 1873
painting “Impression: Sunrise”, the style
captures light in a scene, ridiculed (in print)
every artist in the exhibition with the label
“Impressionists”.
 Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• He suggested the details of a scene through
freely brushed touches of color, so that his
figures softly fuse with one another and their
surroundings, most often focused on people in
intimate and candid compositions, females
were his primary subjects.
 Fauvism
• A style that used bold, vibrant colors and
visual distortions. Its name was derived from
les fauves (“wild beasts”)
 Dadaism
• A style characterized by dream fantasies,
memory images, and visual tricks and
surprises.
 Social Realism

• Artists used their works to protest against the

injustices, inequalities, immorality, and
ugliness of the human condition.
 Surrealism
• A style that depicted an illogical, subconscious
dream world beyond the logical, conscious,
physical one.
 Cubism
• Derived its name from the cube, a three-
dimensional geometric figure composed of
measured lines, planes, and angles.
 Neo primitivism
• An art style that incorporated elements from
the native arts of the South Sea Islanders and
the wood carvings of African tribes which
were suddenly popular at that time.
 Abstractionism
• This movement arose from the intellectual
points of view in the 20th century, this was
logical and rational. It involved analyzing,
detaching, selecting, and simplifying.
 Futurism
• The movement began in Italy in the early
1900s. Created art for a fast-paced, machine-
propelled age. They admired the motion,
force, speed, and strength of mechanical
forms.
 Op Art
• A form of “action painting,” with the action
taking place in the viewer’s eye. In op art,
lines, spaces, and colors were precisely
planned and positioned to give the illusion of
movement.