Period names as ‘Romanesque’ ‘Gothic’ or ‘Renaissance’ are nothing more than convenient labels. Each period covers a span of time within which art was dominated by a distinctive style. Naturally, these periods did not begin or end suddenly. Old styles gradually faded, new ones came into being slowly; the old and the new overlapped. The development was often so gradual and so continuous that no one notices it at the time; however, looking back, we can clearly distinguish between the different period styles.
TWENTIETH CENTURY WESTERN ART MOVEMENTS The following are the most prominent and most often categorized movements of painting between 1875 and today in America and Europe:
Impressionism Pisarro
Monet
Post Impressionism Seurat
Cezanne --------------------------------}
Gauguin, Van Gogh }
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