Art Futurism was an Italian avant-garde art and social movement that originated in 1909. It is unique in art history because it didn’t start with paintings; it started with a Manifesto. It was an aggressive, controversial, and highly political movement that worshipped speed, technology, youth, and violence. The Futurists hated the past (especially the Renaissance […]
Art Fauvism is an art movement that exploded onto the French art scene around 1905. It was the first true avant-garde movement of the 20th century. While it was incredibly short-lived (lasting only about three or four years), it was revolutionary because it liberated color from its descriptive role. For the first time, artists argued […]
Art Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century (roughly 1905–1933). Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, radically distorting it for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. If Impressionism was about painting what […]
Art Dada | or Dadaism | was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry, and performance produced by Dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature. It is arguably the most radical movement in art history […]
Art Cubism is arguably the most influential art movement of the 20th century. Emerging in Paris between 1907 and 1914, it completely shattered the rules of Western art that had existed since the Renaissance. Instead of looking at an object from a single, fixed angle (like a camera), Cubists tried to show all viewpoints at […]
Conceptual Art is a movement where the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. In fact, in many cases, there may be no physical object at all—only a set of instructions, a photograph documenting an action, or text on a wall. Emerging in the mid-1960s and 1970s, it […]
The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theater, and music. Spanning roughly from 1600 to 1750, the movement began in Rome and spread across Europe. The term is derived from the Portuguese […]
Art Nouveau (French for “New Art”) was a short-lived but explosive international art movement that flourished between roughly 1890 and 1910. It was a deliberate attempt to abandon the “historical revivals” (like Neoclassicism or Gothic Revival) of the 19th century and create a truly modern style based on nature. The movement was driven by the […]
