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Surrealism  is a cultural movement  that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks  and writings . Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision , created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious  to express itself. The roots of surrealism lie behind the ethos of romanticism and dada during the 19th century.   Dada was a movement in which artists stated their disgust with the war and with life in general. These artists showed that European culture had lost meaning to them by creating pieces of “anti-art” or “nonart.” Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious  realms of experience so completely that the world of dream  and fantasy  would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.”  These artist tried to access their unconscious mind through automatism.  In ar...

  As i walked through the MET museum i saw many of the different styles taught in class. As i looked at the various paintings i was able to see each of them with a better understanding of the techniques and styles the painters used. There were two paintings in particular that caught my attention one of them being painted by Caravaggio. His paintings combined a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, and they had a formative influence on Baroque painting . This era is fascinating because they did not depict the perfect human but rather conveyed a relate-able figure. T he painting "The musicians" made in 1597 by Caravaggio from Italy, portrayed a mix of the dainty and perfect human face from the renaissance and the emotions and harshness of the baroque era. We can see the play of light and dark in this painting as well as how compacted the figures are creating a unifying look. "Shoes" by Vincent van Go...

Both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism refer to influential artistic movements arising in late 19th-century France. Post-Impressionism movement, focused on the  emotional, structural, symbolic, and spiritual elements  that they felt was lacking from Impressionism. A rtist evoked emotion rather than realism in their work. symbolic motifs, unnatural color, and painterly brushstrokes were all part of the post-impressionist style. Saturated hues, multicolored shadows, and rich ranges of color are evident in most Post-Impressionist painting. Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer on a deeper level. They relied upon the interrelations of color and shape to describe the world around them. The artists who would become known as the Impressionists looked at art a little differently, they wanted to make art as truly realistic as possible, with brighter colors and more ...