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5853469022Realism- An 1850's art movement from France - Realists rejected romanticism + neoclassicism (late 1700's to early 1800's)0
5853483581Features of Realism- An objective reality (true to life) - Focused on honesty/accuracy - Subjects in art appear as they do in everyday life - No embellishment1
5853491253Realism Artists- Gustave Courbet - Thomas Eakins - John Singleton Copley2
5853500204Realism Authors- John Steinbeck - Mark Twain - Upton Sinclair3
5853503796Impressionism- 1860's after the Paris World's Fair - Accurately + objectively recording of visual reality in terms of *transient* effects of color + light - Term comes from Monet's "______________ Sunrise"4
5853520372Features of Impressionism- Visible brush strokes - Unusual angles Light + changing light - Considered radical - Very open composition/movement - Unmixed color/Not smoothly blended - How the *eye* views the subject - NOT a re-creation of the subject5
5853536871Impressionism Artists- Claude Monet - Mary Cassatt - Pierre Auguste Renoir6
5853548889Impressionism Authors- William Wordsworth - William Blake - Mary Shelley7
5853552103Abstractionism- Morally loaded themes (rebellion = a disgust w/society) - Emphasis is on individual, spontaneity, mood, feelings, and revolt (w/o being an actual representation)8
5853572163Features of Abstractionism- Uses form/color/line to create composition existing independently of visual references to the world - No concrete objects (at least none that are recognizable)9
5853576277Why Abstractionism?- Artist felt they needed a new kind of art to encompass changes in Science/Technology/Philosophy - Reflects diversity/turmoil of Western society10
5853584853Abstractionism Artists- Wassily Kandinsky - Jackson Pollock - Theo Van Doesburg11
5853593124Abstractionism Authors- Camus - Beckett - Anais Nin12
5853598175Surrealism- Imagination of the unconscious - Positive expression - Unification of the unconscious + conscious - Where dreams + fantasy are joined to the rational everyday world in an absolute reality = surreality - Andre Breton = "Manifesto of Surrealism"13
5853607320Features of Surrealism- Surprising/spontaneous/unexpected/irrational14
5853614962Surrealism Artists- Salvador Dali - Picasso - Joan Miró15
5853619766Surrealism Authors- E.E. Cummings - Flannery O'Connor - Barbra Guest16

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