Avant-garde movements are characterized by a provocative attitude. Everything published previously is rejected as outdated. They seek the new and the original, challenging already established models and values. Which movements were they? Which artists include ARISTOPETS in their works?
Expressionism (1905-1925)
Expressionism gathers experiences from the artist’s inner world and must harmonize them with the impressions received from the outside world, from nature.
Franz Marc
This artist is fascinated by the animal world, whose creatures are beautiful, pure, and genuine. He distrusts human beings and finds originality and truth only in the animal world.
Cubism (1906)
Cubism is considered one of the most modern painting movements. A series of approaches would emerge from it, and its influence even continues to the present day. The composition of the works is marked by geometrization. For them, color is not important. Its principal representative was Pablo Picasso.
Cat with Bird (1939)
Woman with Dog (1962)
Woman with Dog Under the Tree
Nude Woman with Cat (1964)
Futurism (1909)
It is a movement created by young people who seek to revolutionize artistic and creative conventions in general. It has always gone further from a theoretical point of view, since theorizing is much easier than carrying it out.
Giacommo Balla
This artist works with small commas in vertex-shaped forms that overlap one another, producing a sense of movement. One of his most characteristic works featuring an ARISTOPET is: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912). The dog is moving, and the artist multiplies its legs so that the viewer perceives the sensation of movement.
Realism
After the horrors of the First World War, many artists turn their attention to less radical, less “avant-garde” forms. This is a “return to order,” with the consequent return to “new figurations.”
Marc Chagall
He was a master of color; his tones vibrate with varying intensities, enhancing the content of his paintings. As we see in Paris Through the Window (1913)
Otto Dix
Este artista elige el género del retrato para explicar su idea del mundo. La dureza de sus temas se acentúa por su forma de presentarlos: fría y minuciosa. Hugo Erfurth con un perro Ajax (1926). Este señor simboliza la burguesía dominante con un prototipo, se retrata con su perro como símbolo de fidelidad.
Surrealism (1920)
Surrealism is based on the theory of the irrational linked to the unconscious, which gives rise to art through dreams, magic, mystery, and irrationality. Reason gives rise to science, and irrationality to art.
Joan Miró
During her early period, she produced work that was quite realistic, almost naive, and connected with traditional artistic movements such as Cubism and Fauvism.
The Harlequin's Carnival (1924) A work full of childlike qualities and playfulness that reminds us of the world of imagination. In this work we find two ARISTOCATS playing with a ball of yarn.
Frida Kahlo
Her works have a very personal, almost autobiographical style. They feature a mixture of Expressionist and Surrealist elements and are almost autobiographical. Frida became the most internationally renowned Mexican artist, not only for her works but also for her personal image.
Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace (1940)
Other avant-garde movements where we also find ARISTOPETS in their works are Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Fauvism.