-Questioned the axims of earlier days

-experiments with form

-move away from traditional forms

literally means "means "advance guard"

-refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only three years, 1905–1907, and had three exhibitions.^[1]The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.^[1]

is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form.

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German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905,

-created the style of Expressionism

-wanted to create a "bridge" or link  between their own art and modern revolutionary ideas, between traditions, and also between the avant garde.

group of artists in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Brücke which was founded the previous decade in 1905.

-thought moscow could be the new center of the world, as rome had once been.

-0th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture,

-Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism (using synthetic materials in the art)