The art of the 1920’s falls in the category that we know as postimpressionism. This movement was a culmination of many different schools of art the three main ones being: Art Deco, Expressionism, and Cubism. It is a style of art that allows the artist to use shapes and colors freely, which reflected the emotions of society in the post war era. Art Deco grew out of an effort to simplify the elaborate turn-of-the-century Art …showed first 75 words of 642 total…

…showed last 75 words of 642 total…brighter colors into their painting. Cubism is important in the history of Western art as a revolutionary, passing style that marked the beginning of abstract and nonobjective art. The leaders of the cubist school were the Spaniard Pablo Picasso, who worked in Paris, and the Frenchman Georges Braque; other notable cubist painters were the Frenchmen Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Roger de La Fresnaye and the Spaniard Juan Gris.