Modern Art Streams In Painting

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The Surrealist, the Impressionist, the Abstract, and the Modernist Art

[pic] Vladimir Kush – Eye of the Needle (Surrealist)
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Claude Monet - Venice Twilight (Impressionist)
[pic]Theo Dapore – Abstract Landscape 345 (Abstract)
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Osnat Tzadok - Tranquility by the Sea (Modernist)

Introduction

In this essay, I’m going to talk about the main streams of modern art and their movements in painting, which are: the surrealist, the impressionist, the abstract and the modern art. Further, I will discuss one by one about the techniques used in a particular art, their ancestry, their intention and so forth.

The Surrealist art and its movements was first influenced by Freud and Freudianism and was dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of control, reason, and convention. This movement was created in the beginning of the twentieth century in Paris by Andre Breton, with his “Manifeste du Surrealisme.” However, many scholars have argued that its ancestry is traced to the French poets, like: Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and it is even traced back to the famous Italian painter, Giorgio de Chirico, who has also written a novel Hebdomeros. Many of Surrealist Art members, however, belonged to the communist and Dada movement. The Dada movement was an artistic “revolution” that was also created in the beginning of the twentieth century. This movement changed the face of contemporary art, introducing a wide and different range of new styles, techniques, and aesthetics. It is important to point out that the Dada movement originally emerged as a massive anti-war movement. For it was also in many ways an anti-art movement, defined by aspects of surrealism and irrationality. In painting, the Surrealist movement artists became famous in the 1920’s and 1930’s and was internationally
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