Abdullah Sam Fauvism. Bourgeois art stream ; It received the name “fauves” after an exhibition held in 1904 and whose participants, including Henri Matisse , Raoul Dufy , André Derain , Albert Marquet , Georges Rouault , Maurice Vlaminck , Georges Braque and Van Dongen, were united by their negative attitude not only against …
Modernism. A term that is applied in reference to different movements, especially the current of artistic renewal that developed between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in Europe and Latin America . This …
Historicism. Intellectual tendency to reduce human reality to its historicity or historical condition. History The interest during the XIX century in the architectural styles of other times has very different roots: we can …
The symbolism is artistic and literary movement, which appears in France during the second half of the nineteenth century as a reaction to the naturalism , since its characteristics are rather given by fantasy. The restlessness …
Postimpressionism. It is a term that encompasses the different pictorial styles that succeeded Impressionism in France between approximately 1880 and 1905 . It was coined by British critic Roger Fry in 1910 , on the occasion of the London exhibition of paintings …
Neoimpressionism. An artistic movement that emerged in France at the end of the 19th century , grouping together a set of pictorial trends that delve into some features of Impressionism . The Neo-Impressionists used two basic procedures as …
Impressionism. It is an artistic trend in which painters portray objects according to the impression that light produces on sight and not according to the supposed objective reality. It was the most important movement …