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Chapter 17 Learning Objectives
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Three major directions or movements--expressionism, formalist abstraction, and surrealism--characterize much of twentieth century art.
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Expressionist art, figurative and abstract, is characterized by the expression of personal feeling and psychological state.
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Formalist abstraction, from cubism to de Stijl, emphasizes an art of significant form.
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Surrealism, and its predecessor dada, emphasize the non-rational or irrational in the world and especially in the unconscious self, fantasy, and the dream.





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