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Early Twentieth Century

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1 Early Twentieth Century

2 Explosion of new styles grew from impressionists and post impressionists
First looked back to the renaissance Then to pointillist method (Seurat)

3 Seurat – early 20th century painters were inspired by seurat

4 Seurat

5 Fauves Group led by Henri Matisse
Inspired by Gauguin and Van Gogh (color) Used intense and subjective color Lasted about 2 years Freed color from its traditional role of describing natural appearances

6 Gauguin – color inspired Fauves

7 Van Gogh – color inspired Fauves

8 Matisse – renaissance style

9 Matisse during Fauvist period

10 Joy of life – masterpiece of Fauvism
Pure hues Lines that are not descriptive simplified shapes intentionally direct childlike figures

11 JOY OF LIFE. Henri Matisse. 1905 – 1906.

12 Kandinsky German Expressionist
Painting should be “an exact replica of some inner emotion” Evolved towards nonrepresentational work Believed painting was a response to “inner necessity”

13 Kandinsky

14 Cubism Reconstruction of image and ground
Little cubes from different angles of the subject Color is secondary to structure Overturned renaissance approach to human figure

15 Picasso

16 Picasso

17 Braque

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