Fauvists/expressionists: remove
connection between color &
nature, simplified, emotional
Cubists: challenge dimensions of
space by dividing objects into
numerous planes
Futurists: challenge notion of time
Humanity lost touch with spirituality through attachment and increased value of material things
Art serves as means to rekindle spiritual awakening and return to harmony with universe
Abstractionism does this by reducing paintings to bare essentials/ eliminating association with physical world by using colors, forms, lines, and symbols, thereby gaining spiritual experience
express human’s most intimate emotions