Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | April 2022

IMPRESSIONISM AND
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
Impressionism's emphasis on
the spontaneous and naturalistic
representation of light and
color was rejected by the Post-
Impressionists. Rather, they
preferred a focus on symbolic
substance, formal order, and
structure. However, they, like the
Impressionists, emphasized the
picture's artificiality. The Post-
Impressionists also believed
that color, as an emotional and
aesthetic bearer of meaning, could
exist independently of form and
composition. Some of the most
famous works of modern art are
included in both Impressionism
and Post-Impressionism, such
as Monet's Waterlilies, a Series
of Waterscapes, and van Gogh's
Starry Night.
CUBISM
This groundbreaking technique has been dubbed "the first abstract form of
modern art." This movement rejects the assumption that art should mimic
nature and takes influence from the more expressive tendencies of non-
Western art. It is characterized by fragmented subject topics that may be
seen from multiple views (and hence named after the three-dimensional
'cube'). The Cubists popularized collage in art, which is still widely used
today, as well as the boxy, three-dimensional look that is still prevalent in
the current design.
POINTILLISM
Pointillism is a painting technique
pioneered by French artists
Georges Seurat and Paul Signac.
It is also known as ‘stippling art'
or 'dot art.' Their little paint dabs
and strokes grew into discrete
bits of color that, when applied
in mass, produce cohesive,
complex, and dimensional
images, separating them from
their Impressionist peers.
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