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Pop Art 1950s-1960s
- Usually very bright colors.
- Flat imagery influenced by comic books and newspaper photographs.
- Images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements and fan magazines.
Andy Warhol:
Roy Lichtenstein:
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Abstract Expressionism 1945-1960
- Unconventional application of paint, usually without a recognizable subject that tends toward amorphous shapes in brilliant colors.
- Dripping, smearing, slathering, and flinging lots of paint on to the canvas
- Sometimes gestural "writing" in a loosely calligraphic manner.
Wassily Kandinsky:
Williem de Kooning:
Surrealism 1920s-1940s
- The exploration of the dream and unconsciousness as a valid form of reality, inspired by Sigmund Freud's writings.
- A willingness to depict images of perverse sexuality, scatology, decay and violence.
- The desire to push against the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviors and traditions in order to discover pure thought and the artist's true nature.
Salvador Dali:
Rene Magritte:
Marc Chagall:
Cubism 1907-1914
- Approximation of the Fourth Demension
- Conceptual, instead of perceptual, reality.
- Distortion and deformation of known figures and forms in the natural world.
Pablo Picasso:
Mandola 1911
Georges Braque
Oseculorprodigioso
Paul Cezanne
Impressionism 1870s-1890s
*Use of Pure Color
*Broken Color or Broken Brushstrokes
Claude Monet:
Edgar Degas:
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