ART AND THE AVANT-GARDE

ART AND THE AVANT-GARDE

CUBISM• Emphasis of ideas and

concepts, instead of reality.

• Concepts were represented

by collections of shapes and

objects.

• Figures were represented

with simple geometric

shapes, such as cubes,

cylinders or spheres.Las señoritas de Avignon, by Picasso

EXPRESSIONISM• Emphasis in the depiction of

emotions (such as disappointment, or

suffering during the war).

• Simple but dramatic techniques.

• Powerful colours.

• Dynamic images.

• Emotion showed through deformed

faces, hands or other parts of the

body.

• The shapes of human beings were

reduced to very basic silhouettes.The scream, by Edward Munch

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DADAISM

• Movement inspired by people´s experiences of

the WWI, and especially the disillusioment

with society that artists felt as a result of the

war.

• Dadaist wanted to provoke people by rebelling

against established models of artistic

expressions.

• The scandalous Duchamp´s work was a

porcelain urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt"

and titled Fountain. It´s considered a major

landmark in 20th-century art.

Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp, 1917.