Art Ism's Essay
The development of Art has increasingly changed since the 20th century, due to the influences of many great artists, movements and how Reality and Illusion is used within their works. The art movements and the developing revolution also created a great change in the acceptance of what art is. The six major movements which changed the world of art began in the 1850’s when Impressionism was founded. Impressionism was followed by Fauvism in the early 1900’s which influenced the next 4 isms, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism, Reality and Illusion is uniquely shown in each movement and many artworks show this as a theme. Impressionism began in 1850, and was the major movement of the 19th century. Impressionism developed in France during the increased industrialization and considered a reaction to the traditional and strict styles of art. Impressionist painters’ artwork was considered ‘unfinished’ and only an impression of a certain subject, because of the techniques involved. During this time period the invention of the flat brush evolved the style of painting, the impressionist painters used short flat brushstrokes with quick movements. The main purpose of impressionism was to quickly capture light before it changed and worked to ‘capture a fleeting moment’, which created lesser detailed artworks. The founder of impressionism, Claude Monet was mainly influenced by romanticism which was characterised by the artist’s attitudes and feelings towards a certain subject matter and worked to capture a certain event.
Impressionist painters always used the broken colour technique without careful mixing and blending to create only an impression of a scene. Colours used to create these artworks were usually bold spectrum colours which were painted in short quick brushstrokes side by side; this created an illusion of optical mixing. These concepts were first invented by Monet which is shown in his famous painting of ‘Waterlily Pond’ where he painted the same scene
Impressionist painters always used the broken colour technique without careful mixing and blending to create only an impression of a scene. Colours used to create these artworks were usually bold spectrum colours which were painted in short quick brushstrokes side by side; this created an illusion of optical mixing. These concepts were first invented by Monet which is shown in his famous painting of ‘Waterlily Pond’ where he painted the same scene
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