The document discusses three avant-garde art movements: Cubism, Expressionism, and Dadaism. Cubism emphasized ideas over reality and depicted figures with geometric shapes. Expressionism focused on depicting emotions like disappointment through deformed body parts and dynamic images. Dadaism was inspired by disillusionment with society after WWI, as Dadaist artists wanted to provoke and rebel through works like Duchamp's Fountain, a signed urinal considered a landmark in 20th century art.

1. ART AND THE AVANT-GARDE

2. ART AND THE AVANT-GARDE

3. CUBISM
• Emphasis of ideas and
concepts, instead of reality.
• Concepts were represented
by collections of shapes and
objects.
• Figures were represented
with simple geometric
shapes, such as
cubes, cylinders or spheres.
Las señoritas de Avignon, by Picasso

4. EXPRESSIONISM
• Emphasis in the depiction of
emotions (such as disappointment, or
suffering during the war).
• Simple but dramatic techniques.
• Powerful colours.
• Dynamic images.
• Emotion showed through deformed
faces, hands or other parts of the
body.
• The shapes of human beings were
reduced to very basic silhouettes.
The scream, by Edward Munch
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5. DADAISM
• Movement inspired by people´s experiences
of the WWI, and especially the disillusioment
with society that artists felt as a result of the
war.
• Dadaist wanted to provoke people by rebelling
against established models of artistic
expressions.
• The scandalous Duchamp´s work was a
porcelain urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt"
and titled Fountain. It´s considered a major
landmark in 20th-century art.
Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp, 1917.