From Byzantine to Brutalism and everything else in between. Articles focus on Art Movements and their lasting impact on contemporary art.
Recently, we visited the Burrell Collection in Scotland. It is a collection of over 9,000 art objects, including tapestries, stained glass, medieval treasures and paintings by Cezanne, Manet and Degas. It was here, at the Burrell Collection museum, that we had the opportunity to see one of the first Edgar Degas ballerina paintings – The […]
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Aboriginal Art history spans at least 60,000 years. Australian Aboriginal art is one of the world’s oldest ongoing artistic traditions. It is brimming with vivid and varied representations of Indigenous spirituality, culture, and kinship with the land. It embodies ancestors’ stories and profound knowledge that have been passed down through the millenia. Aboriginal Art: Its
Cubism is certainly one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century, challenging traditional notions of representation and perspective. Emerging in the early 20th century, it revolutionized the way artists depicted the world around them, laying the groundwork for subsequent avant-garde movements. Cubism emerged in the early 20th century, primarily pioneered by Pablo
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Andy Warhol Artwork shook the establishment to its core with nothing more frightening than Coca-Cola bottles and Cambell’s Soup Tins. With his novel approach to creativity and preoccupation with celebrity culture, Andy Warhol revolutionised the art world. He quickly became a prominent figure of the 20th-century art scene, creating iconic works of art out of
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Pop Art movement—the beginning. The Pop Art movement surfaced during the 1950s in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Dominating the art world, it drew its inspiration from simple, bold images of popular and mass culture. Imagery from sources of advertising, comic books, celebrities, animals, and day-to-day objects are used. Following the more
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Andy Warhol Art is world-famous and instantly recognisable, as is the man himself. Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola, 6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987) was a key figure behind the Pop Art movement. He was the third child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, from a working-class neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, USA. Andy Warhol is considered to be
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Born in 1912, Jackson Pollock was a world-famous American painter who is considered to be the ‘main man’ behind the abstract expressionist movement. Abstract expressionist paintings, like Jackson Pollock art, share several broad characteristics. They show forms not drawn from the real world and can often look chaotic. In particular, abstract expressionism often features gestural brush strokes
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Leonor Fini is widely agreed to be one of the most significant female artists of the twentieth century. Her lengthy career included not only paintings but graphic design, product design, theatre set design and book illustrations. Fini was born in 1907 in Bueno Aires and grew up in Italy, raised by her mother. She was
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Henri Rousseau was born in France in 1844. He achieved modest success at school overall, but fared far better in music and art. He left school and worked for a lawyer for some time, before joining the army in 1863 and serving for four years. When his father died in 1868, he moved to Paris
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The ‘80s: Whether you view this decade’s style as being wonderfully bold or frankly hideous, there’s no denying the fact that it left a lasting imprint on popular culture. Indeed, the 1980’s aesthetic has been revived so often that one could be forgiven for thinking it never really went away in the first place. Instead,
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