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• The Impressionist movement was launched in Paris in 1874 by a group of artists including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro.
• The term "Cubism" was coined by French art critic Louis Vauxcelles after observing geometric forms in landscapes painted by Georges Braque in 1908.
• Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered Cubism in Paris between 1907 and 1914, abandoning traditional perspective to represent subjects from multiple viewpoints.
• The Dada movement was founded in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings as a protest against World War I.
• André Breton published the first "Manifesto of Surrealism" in 1924, defining the movement as pure psychic automatism.
• Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York City in the 1940s and is considered the first American art movement to achieve international influence.
• Critic Harold Rosenberg described the Abstract Expressionist approach by defining the canvas as an "arena in which to act" rather than a space to reproduce objects.
• Pop Art emerged in the mid-1950s in both Great Britain and the United States as a reaction against traditional fine art by incorporating imagery from mass culture.
• The Italian Renaissance is widely accepted to have begun in Florence around 1400, marking a transition from the medieval period to the Early Modern age.
• Renaissance artists utilized techniques such as linear perspective and chiaroscuro to create the appearance of depth and three-dimensionality in their works.