Art Deco was an art movement that lasted from the 1920s until around 1940. It began in France with a group of French decorators, designers, and artists at an event called the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes." ...
Art Movements: Learn about Important Periods in Art History
Posted August 21st, 2007.
Posted August 14th, 2007.
As movements go, Abstract Expressionism is a little tricky to describe because it revolved primarily around the individuality of its leading artists, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, just to pick a few. However, if you break down ...
Posted July 13th, 2007.
The term Impressionism (or Impressionist) is a rather popular word in art circles—sometimes it seems that once a painting is labeled as having an Impressionist style, it has an extra air of appeal about it that it didn’t before. For ...
Posted April 10th, 2007.
Fauvism was a brief art movement made up of several young Parisian painters at the beginning of the 20th century. Led by Henri Matisse, this group of painters often used vivid colors - without much mixing or blending - to ...
Posted March 8th, 2007.
I came across a great discussion between several bloggers last week about the differences between "arts" and “crafts” and how artists view themselves within those categories. The term “arts and crafts” however, comes from the historical period in art history ...
Posted January 24th, 2007.
Minimalism - A canvas painted with two colors of black. Simple shapes. No brushstrokes and no emotion. Can art like this truly have meaning for the average person? I think so. . . but let's take a look at the ...
Posted January 10th, 2007.
So there you are, standing in front of another abstract art piece. Abstract art is so varied and (usually) so strange that people often wonder what it means or why it is the way it is. But believe it or ...
