Neo-Impressionism relied on theory of color, pointillism, and the use of dots and strokes. Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro, Paul Signac, and Georges Seurat are a few artist of this movement that come to mind.

Expressionism featured strong color, abstraction, and distortion.  Wassily Kandinsky was credited for painting the first pure abstract painting.  The movement had its highpoint from 1905 to 1920.  Others in the movement, to mention a few, were Franz Mark, Max Beckman, George Gros, and Otto Muller.

Cubism can be traced back to 1901.  The characteristics of the movement were flattened volume, confused perspective, multiple viewpoint, and still life.  The movement was indebted to Cezanne’s use of multiple viewpoint, but was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque (see more about them on blog posted 1/09/2012).  Other artists that worked in Cubism (to name a few) were; Raymond Duchamp-Villon; Juan Gris; and Fernand Legar.