Do we see the world through Monet, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso`s eyes?

The history of art from Paleolithic to the present day points to a certain common point of painting. Regardless of the era, style and direction in art, the artists  focus on the chosen fragment of reality, or choose only the right specific way to explore it. The era in which they live predisposes them to this creative attitude. Often, ho
wever, they set themselves the limits of creative search.

This is particularly evident in the history of art from the late nineteenth century to the times closer to us today. It is during this period that frequent changes in styles and directions are the most radical. Impressionism - a direct, sensory perception of the variability of nature. There is no fixed landscape for this direction, depending on the lighting colors and even shapes of perceived reality change. We do not realize how this new perception of the world has also affected us at present. We live in a pictorial world, today man is able to see more media messages in an hour, more images of the world than previous generations for centuries. Not only impressionism, but also the next directions and new generations of artists, their innovative view of the world around us has forever changed our perception of reality.

 
Paul Gauguin, Siesta, oil on canvas, 1894

Through painting, photography, film and new media we see the world through Monet, Matisse, Gauguin and Picasso`s eyes and many other artists who dared to show the world as they perceived and felt . They dared because they did it against the prevailing canon. The fact that we look at the world through the eyes of artists is not just a nice-sounding sentence, that's the truth. Thanks to them, the perception of ourselves and the world around us has changed. And this is not only due to the objectively changing picture of  reality.

Cézanne Paul, Playing cards, 1890–92 - Musée d´Orsay, Paris

Although it is hard to imagine, but without crossing the borders and canons in art, photographs, films and other visual media messages would look completely different. Maybe it is worth getting to know one of the well-known trends in art and then watching TV, a movie or pictures from an information website imagine what would happen if by some miracle this direction in the history of art did not exist. A difficult undertaking, maybe even impossible, but so interesting that maybe there will be someone who wants to take up such a challenge.


 

 

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