Avant-garde | WOMEN INVISIBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Avant- garde, a term generally applied to innovative approaches to art in the late 19th and the early 20 centuries, means art that explores new forms.

Specially in the beginning of the 20th century, a new artistic enthusiasm free of prejudices broke definitely with the established rules for art.

Women´s push to get rights and independence became stronger, which is reflected in their art as well.

FAUVISM	expressive and arbitrary use of pure colour bold brushwork impactful visual forms	Alice Bailly, Self-portrait,1917 Swiss painter who worked with several avant-garde styles
EXPRESSIONISM	distorted image of reality to express the artist´s feelings or ideas intense non-naturalistic colour free brushwork	Marianne von Werefkin, Rote Stadt, 1909 Russian-German-Swiss expressionist artist and founder of artist groups.
CUBISM	to show different points of view at the same time fragmented appearance emphasizes the two-dimensional flatness of the canvas analytical cubism: auster, muted tones(blacks, greys, ocres) synthetic cubismo: simpler shapes in brighter colours	Maria Blanchard, 1916 Spanish cubist painter, she lived permanently in Paris after WWI
DADA	appeared in Zurich during WWI as a reaction to the horrors of the war satiric and nonsensical art to destroy traditional values in art ready-made objects: every day objects could be presented as art	Elsa von Freytag, God, 1917 German dadaist artist and poet