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** Visual Art and Music Movements of the 20th Century **

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The rebellious artists and musicians were not confined to refined styles previous to them, they created their own radical movements that have greatly impacted history. Defined mainly as modernism, 20th century art is an outcry from the expressionless limitations. Art Movements of the 20th Century: **

· ** Impressionism ** · ** Post-Impressionism ** · ** Expressionism ** · ** Fauvism ** · ** Rayonism ** · ** Suprematism ** · ** Art Deco ** · ** Harlem Renasissance ** · ** Hyper-Realism ** · ** Contemporary Realism ** · ** Futurism ** · ** Neo-plasticism ** · ** Dadasim ** · ** Organic Surrealism ** · ** Abstract Expressionsim ** ·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ** Pop Art and OP Art **
 * The most important art movements inclue Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Art Deco, and Pop Art: **


 * Impressionism is not just a movement but a expression of interpretation and experiment of reactions. Impressionist artists are known to experiment with the reactions of light on numerous surfaces to invoke different textures and gradients reflections. The end results are not replications of pictures or objects they are interpretations of life in the moment.

Examples Include: Waterlillies, 1906 by Claude Monet **

Post impressionism followed the original impressionism movement but ignoring light perception to focus on color hues, sharp corners to define features and create bold statements. Artists that participated in this movement include Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne. **

Expressionism was created during the early 20th century, expressionism was considered c **** ontorted and exaggerated expression that invoked dramatic and intense emotions. The application of violent depictions brought forth through articulated techniques and applications were a vibrant new expression. The expressionistic movement led strong with painters such as Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. ** **
 * Examples Include: **
 * Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory 1931 **
 * Fauvism is the shocking French movement created during the beginning of the 20th century; artist in this movement valued strong colors and rejected submissive pastels. The pure colors were shown is as a unpleasant and violent attraction to the subjects. The Fauvism movement provoked many artists to break out a new style to attract society to the wild ways of the paintbrush. The artist leading this movement include Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, and Jean Puy. **
 * Examples Include: **
 * Henri Matisse’s Harmony in Red


 * Art Deco is the representations of how the world is becoming modernized. The different mediums used such as wood, precious metal, shell, leather, and clay help add to the style. The style is normally used to make jewelry, textiles, furniture, and architecture. It is highly relatable due to the well establish clientele who normally buy these exotic pieces. Artists include William Van Alen, Rene Laique, and Eileen Gray. **
 * Examples include: **
 * The E1027 table by Eileen Gray  **


 * Pop art was created in England during the late 1950’s they style is dramatic and colorful much like a comic book. The term “Pop” was given life by Lawrence Alloway who used it to describe the new style, this term normally refered to advertising represented the extrodinary pictures. The colors were sharp the pictures were cartoonist and flat given personality to the art.



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 * Twentieth Century Music Progression: **
 * The development of music during the twentieth century was contributed to by the drastic reaction from the earlier Romanticism and the more modern impressionism. The styles stated in the previous sentence can be seen in art as well Romanticism and Impressionism are two prevailing styles. Expressionist music was influenced by the affects of the War and the lifestyles of European composers. Many composers prevailed in created new styles by unfolding profound techniques and creative composition. During the early 20th Century nationalism had influence that could compete with no other, composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams of England, Aaron Copland of the United States and Bela Bartok of Hungary followed the nationalistic style and created patriotic compositions. **
 * Technology has helped enhance the development of music with the creation of the cassette player, and computers to compose or record music. **
 * Important Composers Include: Leos Janacek, Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill, John Cage and many others. **

ß **** -- Richard Strauss a German composer who specialized in Operas and Ballets.

John Cage an influential American Composer --->

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