The document discusses several art movements including Realism, Abstraction, Impressionism, Post- Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Expressionism, and Pop Art. Realism portrays objects as they appear in nature while Abstraction moves away from realistic depictions. Impressionism began in France in the mid-19th century and focused on surface color. Post-Impressionism saw the picture plane as flat rather than creating an illusion of depth. Symbolism incorporated symbolic and spiritual ideas. Fauvism emphasized bright arbitrary color. Cubism dealt with pictorial space rather than illusionistic space. Dadaism and Surrealism grew

1. RELAY, Nempha D. Hum1 Arts Appreciation June 19,2023
ART MOVEMENTS
Realism- when the objects are portrayed in the way they normally appear in nature such artwork is said to be
realistic. Realism doesn’t mean exactly alike because no art is even a duplicate of nature.
Abstraction- To abstract means “to move away or separate”. Abstract art move away from showing things as
they really are. The painter or artist paints the picture not as it really looked. The picture in not just like life. It is
not “realistic.
Impressionism- A painting movement of varying styles which began in the mid- nineteenth century in France
including such artists as Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Morisot, Cezanne 9 in his early years).

2. Post- Impressionism- It is seeing the picture surface more as a flat plane than an illusion of depth. This led
toward the twentieth century notion of painting essentially colors and forms on a flat surface, rather than the
imitation of objective reality.
Symbolism- is an art style developed in the late 19th century and is characterized by the incorporation of
symbols and ideas, usually spiritual or mystical in nature, which represent the inner life of people.
Fauvism- the main emphasis in Fauvism was on color-bright, free use of arbitrary (independent of objective
reality) color. The shapes were also not confined to objective reality, and showed strong exuberance of spirit.

3. Cubism- dealt mainly with space- the disintegration of traditional illusionist space in art, and the beginning of
pictorial space, which again was based on the notion that a painting is not an illusion of three dimensions, but
has its own two-dimensional reality which over rides the depiction of depth.
Dadaism – the Dadaist movement extended to both visual art and literature. It was an anti-movement born in
the second decade of the 20th century, and affected by the disillusionment after World War I.
Surrealism- a movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II.
Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of
anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but
Page 29 of 49Surrealism’s emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression.

4. Expressionism- artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective
emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through
distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application
of formal elements.
Pop-Art- art in which commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) were
used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated into the work.
References; https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/cordillera-career-development-college/humanities-and-
social-sciences-strand/hum1-module-final-humanities-and-social-sciences-strand-module/54851618