Western Civilization II / Unit 12 WC2 1117 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Arts at the Fin de Siècle
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The idea
Post-Impressionists pushed past light into feeling: Seurat's dots, Cézanne's simple shapes, Van Gogh's swirls, Gauguin's color. Art Nouveau's natural lines spread through design from the eighteen nineties. Matisse's Fauves loosed raw color, and Picasso and Braque broke objects into cubes after nineteen hundred.
In practice
Color, then form, taken apart before the war.
Where people slip
Witness-built on the LibreTexts art history; music is not covered.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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