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March 16, 2013 •
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Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. Minimalism is any design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create ...
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March 9, 2013 •
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Hello everyone, today in our History of Modern Art series we’ll review the pop art movement! Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of...
March 2, 2013 •
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Hello folks! Welcome to our weekly series on the history of modern art! Today on review is the abstract expressionism movement. Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve...
February 23, 2013 •
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Hello folks, welcome back to our weekly series of History of Modern Art. Today we’ll review the movement of Surrealism. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Surrealist...
February 16, 2013 •
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Hi folks, welcome back to our journey in the history of modern art. Today we’ll be reviewing Art Deco! Art Deco or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s, flourished internationally during the...
February 9, 2013 •
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Hello folks, and welcome back to our history of modern art series! Today we’ll be exploring Bauhaus! Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach...
February 2, 2013 •
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Hello folks, our journey in modern art history resumes, and this time will review the De Stilj (or neoplasticism) movement! De Stijl, Dutch for “The Style”, also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. In a narrower...
January 26, 2013 •
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The Suprematism Movement Suprematism was an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines, and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was founded by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, in 1915. The term suprematism...
January 19, 2013 •
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Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against...
January 12, 2013 •
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Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such...
January 5, 2013 •
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Welcome back to the history of modern art series! Today we’ll review the cubism movement. Cubism is a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired...
December 29, 2012 •
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Hello and welcome to the History of modern art series! Today we’ll take a closer look at the Fauvism movement! Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for “the wild beasts”), a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern...
December 22, 2012 •
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Hello and welcome to the History of modern art series! Today we’ll take a closer look at the Expressionism movement! Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its...
December 15, 2012 •
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We’ll be continuing our exploration in modern art movements with Symbolism. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. Hope you enjoyed the article as much as i did compiling the...
