ART-Learning Journal Unit 7
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Learning Journal Unit 7
Making reference to resources listed in the Reading Assignments throughout
the course, please address the following:
As discussed last week, Impressionism is often referred to as the beginning
of modern art.
How are the modern styles you studied this week descended from
Impressionism?
How might these styles also be seen as reactions against
Impressionism?
As we learned last week, Impressionists defied conventional artistic norms and focused more on their
stylistic interests, such as atmosphere and abstraction. Modernists like the Fauvist and other
Expressionists, according to Drs. Zucker and Harris (n. d.), experimented with vibrant and unnatural hues
to elicit emotions as well as abstracted images to stimulate the imagination. In these ways, the majority
of modern art movements like Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism are inspired by Impressionism. They are
free to express their own rights and imaginations rather than being forced to mimic nature.
The compositions of time and space may be where Impressionism and other later modern painting
movements diverge most. The following modern artists deviated from the Impressionists' point of view,
which required them to capture the exact moment of the natural subject with their own eyes in order to
convey their ideas. Briefly said, they would choose to generate several sketches first before either
deconstructing (Cubism) or fantasizing (Fauvism) to build their own world (Zucker & Harris, n. d.).
Another significant distinction is that while previous painting movements either retained linear
perspective or at least combined it with false perspective, Picasso's Cubism fully abandoned it (Cramer
and Grant, n. d.).
The details of modern art, in my opinion, are another significant area of contrast. Smooth surfaces and
naturalism were greatly emphasized in classical and historical art forms to depict beauty. The beauty of a
scene, especially the effects of light on the environment, was something else the Impressionists tried to
capture. Picasso and other famous modern artists, on the other hand, believed that it was more
important to depict the more unpleasant or alluring aspects of the world than its beauty. Perhaps they
possess a strange sense of beauty.
References:
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso (article) | khan academy
. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19,
2022, from https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/cubism-early-
abstraction/cubism/a/picasso-les-demoiselles-davignon
Khan Academy. (n.d.).
Cubism and early abstraction | Modernisms 1900-1980
. Khan Academy.
Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/cubism-
early-abstraction
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