The Young British Artists Movement – About
The Young British Artists are a loosely-affiliated group who met in London, in the late 1980s and participated in two…
Might As Well Celebrate Loneliness With 3 American Realists – George Segal, Andrew Wyeth, And Edward Hopper
The realist art movement in America during the 20th century was an attempt to bring the real world back into…
Real Not Real Enough For Ya? The Realists Vs. The Super Realists
By the 1950s, the centrer of the art scene was now well-embedded in the USA. Artists set about making their…
We The Degenerates – The Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.” Kirchner…
Comparing Abstract Expressionism And Pop Art
Two of the biggest art movements that have dominated the twentieth century are Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. While stylistically…
What Destiny Holds For Painter Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler, one of the leading figures in modern European paintings, developed outside the mainstream of the so-called avant-garde, and…
Famous Ossuaries From Around The World – Take The Tour!
Ossuaries are containers of bones, ranging from buildings to boxes. They have a very long history, with some common threads…
Dadaism – The Negation Of Art At Its Finest
As a reaction to World War I, a little something called Dada – the artistic and literary global movement –…
Every Day Is Halloween – The Symbolic Meaning Of Skulls In Art
If you’ve ever walked through a museum, through the galleries of European paintings, you might have noticed something a little…
The Portraits Of Arcimboldo – Strange Amusements Of The Hapsburg Court
When you think of the art of the late 16th and 17th centuries, you likely picture the early stages of…