William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce are three examples of famous authors who employed this technique. ... Impressionism played with the use of colors and light, and not always concrete shapes. ... Abstract paintings still made use of real objects, however they played around with the positioning of color, lines, and form. ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...