Gloria Fiero's 'The Modernist Assault'

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Gloria Fiero wrote chapter 32 as “The Modernist Assault” because there was a rise in women expressionism in painting specifically. For example, on page 359 in Humanistic Tradition by Gloria Fiero, there’s painting of unclothed women in a variety of landscape; other paintings are more expressive than others and etc. Specifically, Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon by Pablo Picasso. Furthermore, Pablo Picasso has a variety of expressive women paintings. In contrast, women expressionism was prominent and also abstraction of photography and nonobjective art. Nonobjective was an important part of the art movement because, “had all come into contact with the principal art movements of the early twentieth century: Cubism, Futurism, and Fauvism. In contrast,

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