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Post-impressionism Pointillism
An attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour.
Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta 3
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) The Chestnut Trees at Osny [note: Impressionist martyr]
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Post-Impressionism is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of artists who were influenced by Impressionism but took their art in different directions.
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Short lived movement but one that marked the advent of Modernism. The style of painting, using non-naturalistic colors, was one of the first avantgarde developments in European art.
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Form of painting in which the use of tiny primarycolor dots is used to generate secondary colors
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Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an elegant decorative art style characterized by intricately detailed patterns of curving lines.
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Symbolism
Late 19th c. movement that influenced many modern trends.
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Group of Seven artists were strongly influenced by Impressionism, PostImpressionism, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau and Symbolism - creating bold, vividly-colored canvases, and instilling elements of the landscape with symbolic meaning.
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Lawren Harris (1885-1970) Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior, 1924
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Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist.
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Surrealism
Fantastic visual imagery from the subconscious mind.
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