Impressionism
The term was first used by the journalist Louis Leroy in an article about the exhibition of a group of young artists, the Salon des Outcasts.
Contemporary Art
The term was first used by the journalist Louis Leroy in an article about the exhibition of a group of young artists, the Salon des Outcasts.
It is a whole complex of changes and processes taking place in culture, fine art, literature, architecture in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth.
The style developed in the first quarter of the twentieth century mainly in Italy. Some ironically call it Cubism with a scandalous flavor.
The term “avant-garde” today is used by art historians as a general trend of new currents that emerged in world art at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Surrealism is a movement in avant-garde art in the first half of the twentieth century, characterized by the fusion of reality with something else, but not oppositional.