as in Monets Rouen Cathedral, Morning Sun (1893). Fifth is a lack of emotions, Cezanne would accomplish this in his Rocks in the Woods (1894-98). Finally, the visible and prominent brushstrokes so that the viewer may see where the artists brush dragged along the canvas as in Boulevard des Capucines (1873) by Monet. As the Impressionists innovations grew out of the paintings of Courbet, Corot and Constable, so did the movements that succeeded the Impressionist era. After the impressive art work left to us by the Impressionist, their greatest legacy to art history was what developed after it. Beginning with the Impressionists revolution, the avant-garde was born in their spirit. Following the 1870s and the dwindling Impressionist collaboration, avant-garde artists launched a multitude of movements that would eventually overlap and intertwine including the Post-Impressionists (1880), Fauvism (1905), Symbolism (1905), Expressionism (1905), Cubism (1907), Suprematism (1915) and Surrealism (1920). As each movement emerged into the light, theories and aesthetic positions were developed to justify the artistic evolution and antagonism towards the preceding avant-garde movement. Impressionism was characterized by strong individualism of the members, as the group fragmented into their own artistic views, artistic reaction to Impressionism created many trends that were both a reaction to and consequence of the Impressionist work. As impressionism evolved it eventually subdivided into a number of streams throughout Europe and America. In Germany in 1911 Expressionism, evolving from Van Goghs work, was developing as the Fauve movement took hold in France and Norway. Cezannes patchwork quilt technique would eventually inspire Picasso to develop the cubist style that became the first forage into abstract art. # Working as a close group of artists trying to move the art of painting in a new direction, the impact of the Im...
