New Ways of Seeing

Expressionism
This was a modernist art movement that originated in Germany during the 20th century. The idea behind expressionism art was to show feelings and emotions through art rather than realism/reality, this was done to hopefully evokes moods and ideas from other artists around the world. This was an Avante-Gaurd style of art and it eventually extended into performing arts, film and photography.

'The Scream' created by Edvard Munch in 1893 is a very famous painting using the expressionist style.


Abstraction
Abstraction art is a style which means the departure of reality in a piece of art, and more into an imagery version art. A piece of art created in this style would have kept characteristics of the reality, but the aspects of the subject would have been disregarded and replace by colour and shapes, the idea of this kind of art is to show different kind of visual experiences (maybe the imagination of the artists). Some abstract art is totally has kept none of the subjects structure and meaning, basically becoming all shapes and colour.

Wassily Kandinksy, Oh White 2, 1923.



Cubism
Cubism was an Avante-Guard movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the idea behind this concept was to look at something in real life and pick it apart, then put it back together in different ways expressing characteristics about the subject that was being turned into an art piece. Usually taking on cube like depths in the art, this gave it a strange sense of perspective which revolutionised Europe's art production. This movement began around 1911.


Dada
Dada was a cultural movement that happened during world war 1, it was an anti-war campaign which wanted to have it's ideas heard through creating art. It was in direct action to world war 1 claiming that bourgeois nationalists and colonists led the people into war, by taking up other beliefs rather than conforming into the interest of society and art. The Dadaists say that this lack of knowledge lead the people into war.

Dada inspired the creation of a new 'movement', Surrealism.