Art During the Turn of the Century.

Painting - The Rehearsal by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal by Edgar Degas
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As defined by Larry Treadwell of thecaveonline.com:

Impressionism -

An attempt to portray the fleeting and transitory world of sense impressions based on scientific studies of light; forms are bathed in light and atmosphere; colors are juxtaposed for the eye to fuse from a distance; short, choppy brush strokes to catch the vibrating quality of light. Values: the immediate, accidental, and transitory.

Expressionism -

Indebted to Freud; art tries to penetrate the facade of bourgeois superficiality and probe the psyche, that which lurks beneath an individual's calm and artificial posture. Values: subliminal anxiety; dissonance in color and perspective; pictorial violence-manifest and latent.

Learn More.

Read the Boundless Art History section on Impressionism.

View The Caveonline - Impressionism.

View The Caveonline - Expressionism.

View Webmuseum - Impressionism.

View Webmuseum - Expressionism.

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