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The Era of Innovation - Cubism and Fauvism

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The era of change, during the early 20th century two forms of artistic techniques were born referred to as cubism and fauvism. Fauvism was the first technique born in 1904 by a leader named Matisse of a new group of experimental painters known as the Fauves (wild Beasts). This form of art was known for their application of color to bring the object to reality to evoke strong emotion from the viewer. Cubism is a technique that formed later on around 1908 by two painters named Picasso and Braque. This technique questioned the very nature of reality by forming art outside of reality introducing two and three dimensional elements of space known as collage. Cubism and Fauvism share similarities, but they also are very different forms of art. Cubism was one of the most influential movements born out of the collaboration of the 20th century. Inspired by past impressionists and post-impressionism of French painters in the 19th century a new era of change occurred. Taking the very theory of complementarity art, discoveries in physics, and producing modern art by a new technique where illusions itself lied truth (pg. 1125). Relatively, similar to that of Fauvism, as the second most influential movement inspired by both impressionism and post-impressionism that introduced the notion of speed and motion. These two techniques collided together forming a contrast of similar and dissimilar pieces of art. Cubist and Fauvist painters like Picasso and Matisse illustrate the very concept of both techniques in their details. In Picasso painting Les Demoiselles d' Avignon, the artist presents a group of nude figures, as well as the fauvist style in Matisse painting called Le Bonheur de vivre (The joy of Life). Picasso figures of the five women set in a rendering position, similar to Matisse figures of men and women set in a posed position. Picasso painting forms squared and angular composition in the background, unlike in Matisse painting that shows circul

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