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Women creating

We´ll go to find out the evolution of art, mainly painting and sculpture, about 1870 to the First World War (1914-1918) through the work of some representative women of the main movements and styles in this period.

IMPRESSIONISM

POSTIMPRESSIONISM ART NOUVEAU FAUVISM EXPRESSIONISM CUBISM DADA
impressionist painting postimpressionist painting Art Nouveau chapel fauvist painting expressionist painting Cubist painting dadaism

In the past, artistic styles have covered long periods of time (for instance the Baroque through the 17th and 18th centuries ), but since the late 19th century different styles and movements changed rapidily and no longer did  artists  accept the rules of the "art authority" as they lived art as a personal self-expression.

Artists had previously worked at the service of patrons from the Church, the aristocracy or the State, but in this period, they became more independent.

The developement of the middle-class urban life had a great impact on art that became part of the dominant market economy.