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+ Realism 1850’s Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life.

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+ Post Impressionism 1880’s to 1900 A movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others.

+ Impressionism was based on the objective recording of nature in terms of the effects of color and light. The Post-Impressionists rejected this limited aim in favor of more ambitious expression and to the pure, brilliant colors of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with short brushstrokes of broken color. The work of these painters formed a basis for several contemporary trends and for early 20th-century modernism.

+ Degas - Impressionist

+ Arriving in Paris in 1886, the Dutch painter Van Gogh quickly adapted Impressionist techniques and color to express his emotions. He transformed the contrasting short brushstrokes of Impressionism into curving, vibrant lines of color, exaggerated even beyond Impressionist brilliance, that convey his emotionally charged and ecstatic responses to the natural landscape. The best example of this is Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Check it out! v=pCHFAsXYHGA#action=share v=pCHFAsXYHGA#action=share Van Gogh – Post Impressionist

+ Seurat – Post Impressionist

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+ Cubism The Cubist painters rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of perspective, modeling, and foreshortening. They wanted instead to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas. So they reduced and fractured objects into geometric forms, and then realigned these within a shallow, relief like space. They also used multiple or contrasting vantage points. Picasso Braque

+ The Young Ladies of Avignon 1907

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+ Student work

+ Braque

+ Pop Art 1950’s Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it. Andy Warhol Roy Lichetenstein

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+ Romero Britto Brazilian artist today that combines Pop Art with Cubism

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+ Completing you letter Choose one art movement: Realism, Cubism, Pop Art, or Post Impressionism. (you can also choose Romero Britto who combined Cubism and Pop Art) Create artwork in that style. Do not copy the artist’s work but just their style. Be creative and neat. You must paint the front, sides, and back of the letter.