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A quiet revolution was occurring in the rural center of France during the first half of the 1800s.  In contrast to Paris's elaborate salons and ne...

Numerous movements throughout art history questioned accepted wisdom, defied expectations, and reinterpreted beauty.  But before radical experimen...

There was a significant change in the art world at the beginning of the 20th century.  The necessity to depict the real world was no longer felt b...

Britain's audacious and indigenous response to the avant-garde movements that swept through Europe in the early 20th century was vorticism.  Vorti...

Pop Art is more than simply a vibrant aesthetic; it's a cultural movement that completely upended the art world.  Pop Art, which emerged in the mi...

In addition to being an artistic movement, de Stijl (Dutch for "The Style") represented a paradigm shift in how people thought about architecture,...

Conceptual art has its own position in the broad and dynamic realm of contemporary art.  It is intensely cerebral, intriguing, and frequently elus...

Approximately from the early 17th century until the middle of the 18th century, the Baroque period was characterized by a great deal of emotion, g...

What are you expecting to see when you look at a painting?  A moment in time?  A scene that has been caught in the frame?  The early 20th century ...

One of the most effective communication, artistic, and storytelling techniques is symbolism.  It enables artists to convey concepts in layers, aro...

What Makes Minimalism So Popular?  The world we live in is full with excess: never-ending digital noise, messy closets, hectic schedules, and freq...

The idealized beauty of Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as balanced compositions and harmonic pr...