Modern and Post Modern Art

Modern art: Began with impressionism Monet; Impression sunrise: Induced the name of the movement from a review that criticised the style. Impressionists sought to achieve a reflection of modern industrialisation and invention of photography Post- Impressionism: Where artists formed their own styles in movements ex: neo-impressionism, expressionism (Van Gogh), Fauvism, Cubism (Picasso), Futurism, Surrealism Post Modern Art: Began in modern art with an anti-art movement which rejected main assumptions of traditional art; art that had to be original and that art needs to be a message or interpretation. A movement in post-modern art is Neo-Dada