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Impresionismo
Impressionism was not really an avant-garde ism, but rather an antecedent against which the avant-gardists reacted. His main contribution to the avant-garde was the liberation of the expressive power of color.
Its greatest exponent was Claudio Monet (14 November 1840- 5 December 1926). One of his works was Impression, soleil levant -
Fauvismo
It is characterized by a provocative use of color
Its greatest exponent was Alfred Henry Maurer, (21 April 1868 – 4 August 1932).In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and the painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris and stayed there for the next four years. He joined a circle of American and French artists. One of his works was Paisaje Provinza 1912 -
Cubismo
It treats the shapes of nature by means of geometric figures, fragmenting lines and surfaces. The so-called "multiple perspective" is adopted: all the parts of an object are represented in the same plane.
Its greatest exponent was Pablo Picasso , (25 October 1881- 8 April 1973). One of his works was Guernica (1937) and it's about the Spanish civil war. -
Futurismo
According to his manifesto, his postulates were the exaltation of the sensual, the national and the warrior, the adoration of the machine, the portrait of reality in movement, the objective of the literary and the special disposition of the written, in order to give it a plastic expression
One of the greatest exponents is Umberto Boccioni (19 October 1882 - 16 August 1916). One of his works was Dinamismo de un ciclista (1913) -
Expresionismo
It is the distortion of reality to express in a more subjective way the nature and the human being, giving primacy to the expression of feelings rather than to the objective description of reality.
One of the greatest exponents is Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Piper (6 May 1880 - 15 June 1938) In 1903 Kirchner was in Munich to study painting at the School of Fine Arts. One of his works was Fränzi before a carved chair (1910) -
Dadaismo
It was characterized by rebelling against literary conventions, and especially artistic, by making fun of the bourgeois artist and his art.
One of the greatest exponents is Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887- 2 October 1968). One of his works was La Fuente (1917) -
Ultraismo
Contributes to the use of free verse, the banning of the anecdote and the development of the metaphor, which would become the main expressive center.
Its greatest exponent was Rafael Barradas, (4 January 1890- 12 February1929). One of his works was the Portada de Rafael Barradas para la revista Vltra (1 December 1921) -
Surrealismo
It was characterized by trying to create a new individual by resorting to black humor in order to destroy sentimentality.
One of the greatest exponents is Salvador Dali (11 May 1904- 23 January 1989). One of his works was La Persistencia de la memoria (1931) -
Estridentismo
It is the mixture of several movements and was characterized by modernity, cosmopolitanism and urban, as well as by nonconformity.
Its greatest exponent was Germán List Arzubide ( 31 May 1898 - 17 October 1998). One of his works was Emiliano Zapata (1927) -
Arieldentismo
It is a philosophical movement that postulated fundamentally that human beings, individually, create the meaning and essence of their lives. It emerged as a movement in the literature and philosophy of the 20th Century
