Painting began to be freed from the prescribed methods for rendering perspective and anatomy that had held sway for centuries, ever since the renaissance.
包括莫內的「印象派」，馬諦斯的「野獸派」，畢卡索的「立體派」，都是告別傳統的前衛運動，打破了文藝復興之後四、五百年來經由學院派所整理出來的透視、解剖等完整技法，讓繪畫更見自由。