These stages are categorized into Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Surrealism. ... Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier artists had defined, the impressionists tried to depict what they saw at a given moment, capturing a fresh, original vision that was hard for some to accept as beautiful. ... Impressionist painters used broken brushstrokes of bright, often unmixed colors. ... Where impressionist painters concentrated on the depiction of a subject's immediate appearance, post-impressionists focused on emotional...

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While abroad, Grant Wood was exposed to current trends in European painting butconcentrated on the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles. ... Wood is best known for his later paintings, which depicts the scenes and people of his native Iowa. ... The subject matter are the two old people in the painting. ... When you view this painting it involves undivided and sustained attention. ... The painting has strong artistic form. ...

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Pre-Manet paintings had flat and static qualities. ... His use of new and different techniques and colors that stand out make this picture notable to the development of the artistic style of the impressionist period. This painting, a pillar of change, hangs in the Bayerische National Gallery in Munich. 3 Manet's works inspired the impressionist style, influenced French panting and the general development of modern art. ... His work separated pre-Manet paintings and post-Manet paintings into two worlds. ... After producing 420 oil paintings, not to mention the painting of other sorts, Mane...

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Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense. ... His professional work has turned him from an ex-graffiti artist, to now painting on canvases. Far from what he or anyone would expect, he is making a living from spray painting, to which has been a controversial subject as to whether it is vandalism, or art. ... Is it a painting, in watercolour, or acrylic, with intricate detail? ...

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