Some qualities that are frequently associated with the Baroque are grandeur, richness, drama, movement, tension and appeal to emotions. Thus, the terms Classicism and Neoclassicism are often used interchangeably. An artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism. In the arts, the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life.
Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances.
The impressionist style of painting, developing primarily in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. Century Fauvism French Fauvisme is a style of painting that flourished in France from 1898 to 1908. It used pure, brilliant colour, applied straight from the paint tubes in an aggressive manner to create the sense of an explosion on the canvas. The Fauves painted directly from nature as the Impressionists had before them, but their works were invested with a strong expressive reaction to the subjects they painted. First formally exhibited in Paris in 1905, Fauvist paintings shocked visitors to the annual Salon d'Automne.