Impressionism's Influence: Modern Art Styles and Evolution

This report examines the relationship between Impressionism and modern art, specifically focusing on Fauvism. It begins by defining Impressionism and its characteristics, such as the use of small brush strokes and the focus on light and color. The report then discusses how modern art styles, like Fauvism, evolved from Impressionism, highlighting the shift from realistic depictions to the use of bold colors and expressive techniques. It also explores how modern art, particularly Fauvism, reacted against Impressionism by prioritizing vibrant colors and simplified forms. The report contrasts the two art movements, emphasizing the evolution from Impressionism's focus on nature and light to modern art's emphasis on emotion and abstraction. Finally, it references key sources to support its analysis of Impressionism and its influence on the development of modern art.

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Impressionism is often referred to as the beginning of modern art
How are the modern styles you studied this week descended from Impressionism?
Impressionism is considered to be the beginning of the contemporary art. It begun in the
19th century art movement whose speciality was small thin brush strokes and lay focus on the
open composition, depiction of the changing lights and many other features as well. Before this,
the Art was limited to the traditional aspect of the nature (Olson, 2018). The Impressionist made
use of bold colours on the two dimensional surfaces which is a form of modern art as well. After
this, a group of painters arrived enriched in the concept of modern art, who supported fauvism.
They emerged in the twentieth century who preferred the usage of the colors over the values of
the painting which were retained by the Impressionists.
How might these styles also be seen as reactions against Impressionism?
The modern art style makes use of the bold colours over the value or the realism in the
painting. The maintaining no longer needed the depiction of the emotions, but they were
enriched with colours. The impressionism demonstrates the ways in which the nature can be
represented in the realistic manner, however, the modern art completely demolished necessity of
using this process in the painting. The basic aim of the modern artist were to develop paintings
which will be extremely catchy for the eyes. They used more contrasting color to give the
painting the most vibrant looks along with well-defined outlines. The faint strokes of the brush
with the light usage of the color were simply covered with the emergence of the bright and
exaggerating painting of the modern twentieth century art. The entire concept of the
impressionism from which the fauvism is actually descending, changed as the modern art

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focused mostly over the portraying the upper classes of the society in luxury from the
impressionist providing positive landscapes in their art (Pollard, 2018).

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References:
Olson, D. W. (2018). Monet in Le Havre: Origins of Impressionism. In Further Adventures of
the Celestial Sleuth (pp. 97-123). Springer, Cham.
Pollard, A. (2018, September). Paleo Fauvism by Alexander James Pollard. In Paleo-Fauvism.