The Compelling Canvases of Cleo and Her Spot in Art History
Trends in art in the past are frequently a sign of whatever was going on in history and socially at the period as well, often giving a documentation of what the public may have been believing, experiencing, or reflecting on, as well as how they were letting those things show at any period in the epoch of human life. Where certain artists match into the epoch depends on many things, including but not limited to the era they lived in, in what manner they selected to express themselves, and what if any ideologies they bought in to.
However, when discussing contemporary art, the processbecomes a bit more complex. In fact, Cote Clementina herself very much did not like the notion of naming something as amorphous art, since she believed art by its very definition was supposed to be about expressing a freedom from such things - a pure, unharnessed outburst of innovate power.
However, her paintings is often considered by experts to be an mixture of impressionist, post-impressionist, and fauvist periods, and even Cote Clementina herself most likely found this portrayal to be at least somewhat truthful, as it was one of the few criticisms about her canvases that she did not dispute. The impressionist period is defined by short, thick brushstrokes that are designed to give an "impression" of the topic as opposed to a representational scene, an emphasis on light and its qualities, and its scarcity of blacks and whites in the common color palettes of the period. All of these elements are important in the works of Cote Clementina (Cleo), as are the applications of unusually vivid, unadulterated colors and expressive line patterns, which are characteristics of the subsequent post-impressionist and fauvist movements.
Cote Clementina (Cleo)'s artwork also shows impressions from the surrealist period which was in style during her lifetime, though her paintings does not necessarily tend to embody the visual traits of surrealism. Surrealism happened from the feeling that the horrorsof World War I were extremely secondary to an excess of lucent thinking, which is why surrealists were so often newly minded radicalputting forth new and untraditional ideas on the use of focal points, composition, and blending of shapes in art. This way of thinking completely fit with the highly independent and creative Cleo and influenced highly to her ardent belief that art should be governed by little rules and regulations, as well as to the choice with which she expressed herself through her paintings.