Avant Garde

art ahead of it's time

fauvism

• color

Henri Matisse

• fauvist color theory

Kandinsky

russian artist that was truly abstract

Franz marc

• made his own color relationships for emotion

• used animals as subjects

German Expressionism

• fauvist inspired group of german artists use color for drama and emotion

Kathe Kollwitz

• female artist most famous for etchings

• empathized with dark topics

Paula Modersohn-becker

• created picasso like self portrait

Egon Schiele

distorted harsh lines of human figure in self portrait