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Fauvism

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Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art April 30, 2018 Fauvism          Fauvism is a style of painting which emphasized on strong color usage and variation of color in painting. The style started in 1904 and kept going strongly until 1910, this movement lasted only a few years but it had a strong effect on people throughout this time. Its main founders wer e Andre Derain and Henri Matisse.

Goya

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Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art  April 30, 2018 Goya         Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He was an artist throughout the Romantic period, which was a period in which people returned to the thoughts of paganism and being narcissistic, in a nutshell.  Most of his work were portraits of families or portraits of people alone. He was one of the great contemporary portraitists. He became a court painter in 1786 this is where his portraits for families came since he started painting aristocratic families.

Arts and Crafts movement

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Matthew A. Sanchez Kristen Jones Fine Art March 4, 2018  Arts & Crafts Movement          The Arts & Crafts Movement started in Europe and North America from 1880 and 1920. It also started to emerge in Japan in the 1920s. It usually took form in Medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It was usually used in craftsmanship, it was usually used in anti-industrial propaganda. It was pretty strong in Europe until the 1930s when Modernism started to take its place. This term was first used by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson in an exhibition in 1887. The movement was inspired by Augustus Pugin, A writer John Ruskin, and William Morris a designer.