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...... To the casual viewer, painting styles and techniques that came about after World War II seemed very much to be based on confusion with bewildering overlaps and intersections of tendencies and influences, yet a closer look revealed a certain order to the madness which fit haphazardly into several artistic styles, such as Expressionism, Cubism and Constructivism. 3
This order of a sort also appeared as a fundamental pairing of the works of earlier painters, the so-called Fathers of Modern Art, being Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne. Also, this new artistic means of expression reflected the dualism in Western art between the
classical forms directed by the intellect and the imagination and the Baroque/Romantic

expressionism based on feelings and sensations
During the first half of the 20th century, Cubism and Expressionism dominated the world of art and are now grouped as post-war trends and styles based on the individual approach of the artist to his medium, either predominantly rationale and formalistic or emotionally expressive. These groups are also descendants of either Cubism or Expressionism and are placed under the general title of Abstract Formalism and Abstract Expressionism......

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