... an earlier time asking why we were put on this earth and by whom, and so on. It is a very large and wide painting that seems to have a type of narrative to it. Pictured is a Tahitian paradise filled with females of all ages that are enjoying what nature has to offer. They are not wearing the ankle length dresses brought in ... to do with Western traditions or civilized experiences. The African type of art had a very literal representation of nature. As far as figure went, these artists were drawn to that style too. It features mask like faces, short or elongated limbs, wide torsos, and ...

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... the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract Derain being a Fauvist and the more realistic painter Benton representing the American Scene style as a Regionalist. Andre Derain became an accomplice to the well known Henri Matisse who founded the expression of Fauvism in 1905. Fauve, meaning ... piece, the work is "expressive of the artists' feelings rather than of the descriptive landscape," which is consistent with the style of Fauvism. However Benton's piece does not really reflect his emotions or feelings, rather it seems more optically realistic to therefore acc...

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... , Dutch merchants, and the farming community. Some Dutch paintings were of carefully arranged subjects. These were know as "still life" paintings. Another style known as "genre" showed everyday scenes in clean, private households. One famous painter from this time period was Rembrant. Early in his career ... . Many buildings and townhouses were decorated using these styles. Rococo rooms were more decorative and ornamental than the ones decorated in Neoclassical style. Rococo paintings were usually bright with happy, well-dressed people enjoying themselves outdoors. Neoclassical artists pa...

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Art Nouveau (1880's-1914) Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines. Somewhat rooted in the British Arts and Crafts Movement of William Morris, ... , and the American glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany. Art Nouveau remained popular until about the time of World War I, and was ultimately replaced by the Art Deco style. Impressionism - French and American (1860's-early 1900's) A movement in painting that originated in France in the 1860's. Impressionist painters celebrated the overwhelming vision of ... to describe a variety of ...

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... Cézanne amazed Picasso in that the different shapes gave so many possibilities in representing different people and objects. Picasso was becoming very successful using the ideas of Impressionists. His style changed, for the better, when he took a painting holiday at Gosol in the Pyrenees. The pictures he worked on there and after his return to home showed two new important ... in the foreground is presented from several sides at once. Cézanne's influence is seen in the geometrical angles and planes that would lead the critics to call Picasso's new style "Cubist-. This painting marked ...

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... lead to the first independent Impressionist exhibition in April of 1874. The main purpose for the exhibition was not only to promote the new style in art but also to escape the restrain held by the Salon and exhibit their works freely and also to the working classes. They ... and ideas of the viewers, but also still after enormous aesthetic value with the use of intense distortion, exaggeration and fantasy. It is a style which desires to expose subject matter as an expression of the inner state of the artist. Expressionism really took off in 1910 in Germany and ... de Vlaminck, Georges R...

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The idea of simultaneity, geometricity, and passage being integrated into art started just before the 20th century. This style of art was, however, just an idea and didn't become an art form until the early 20th century, in which it came to be known as Cubism. Cubism was the ... than during the entirety of the renaissance era. Artists saw that the western traditions in place had their run but were not fitted for the time anymore and that a new style needed to take its place. This era is characterized as a time of new perspective and generally a different way of seeing things. Cubism perfectl...

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... current architectural criticism, the term formally and effectively describes the rejection of orthodox Modernist purity in favour of an updated Neo-classical ornamentation. Like art Deco, the last major international style, Post modern blends art history and new technology with a decorative tendency to achieve a broad-based commercially acceptable look. Characteristics include: kinetic geometry featuring floaty forms, randomly placed blips and lines ... , multiple fragmented lines and layered imagery, discordant, letter spaced typography and frequent references to art and design history....

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Cezanne - beyond Impressionism. Another artist who drew his inspiration from outdoors was Cezanne, who also had a distinct style of painting. To move away from the style of the broken colour of the impressionists, Cezanne devised a system of modulating the colours from a volume of cool to warm or light to dark. It seems to me that Cezanne ... ...

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... dignity through the balanced arrangement of its" elements and the contours of its" figures. In Modernism the period dating from roughly the 1860's through the 1970's is described as they style and ideology of art produced during that era concerned primarily with essential qualities of color and flatness and as exhibiting over time a reduction of interest in subject matter. Paintings such ... Eduard Manets" Le Dejeuner Sur I"herbe are a clear example of modernism. Cubism is an art form derived from modernism and said to be invented by Pablo Picasso who invented a new style of painting, f...

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... corruption of Louis the XVI's of France. Jacques-Louis David, Angelica Kauffman, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres all were leading neoclassical painters. David gave France a new look. Kauffman brought this style to the English eye. Ingres was one of David's students and his forms were smooth and sculptural with flattened space. Impressionism started as a group of young artists who were against ... the French art establishment known as the Academy. Although many of the artists had different styles they all were against the Academic style and the subject matter. They were more into natur...

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... inspired Matisse to experiment with his work, more then ever. Furthermore, artists such as Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh appear to have had a profound effect on Matisse's style. Later on, the pointillist technique used by Henri Edmond Cross and Paul Signac also proved to have a great influence on his work. The first and most prominent of the design ... principles is pattern. Pattern is evident on the tablecloth and on the back wall, occupying most of the composition. The pattern itself is an oriental-style design with branches weaving in and out amongst decorative flow...

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Fauvism (which is French for "wild beast") is a term that art critics hurled at the painters whose art they neither liked nor understood when they first viewed it in art galleries. It was a short-lived art movement (1905-1908) that was adopted by a group of French painters: Henri Matisse, George Roualt, Claude Derain, Maurice de Vlamink, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Kees van Dongen (a Dutch painter living in Paris). The Fauves' influence was international and is considered as having been crucial to Twentieth Century art. It was characterized by a bold distortio...

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... 1905 and 1906 Salon d'Automne, where their paintings created a sensation, leading one critic to refer to them as "Les Fauves" or "wild beasts." By 1909 Matisse shifted to a more serene style in paintings, executed with broad color planes, simplified structures, and idyllic subjects. Matisse's first sculptures were created during his student years. Not surprisingly, his earliest figures were copies after small ... ...

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