Examples of art movements

Post-impressionism - dissatisfied with what they felt was the triviality of subject matter and the loss of structure in Impressionist paintings, inclined to emphasize geometric forms, distort form for expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary colour , fauvism - seemingly wild brush work and strident colors, while their subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction. , expressionism - present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas , cubism - different views of the subject pictured at the same time, also called multiple perspective, simultaneity or multiplicity, faceting or simplification of geometric forms, and the association of mechanization and modern life , dada - expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works