Curated category
Modern art
- Abstract artA canvas in 1912 held a painting titled Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs. It measured 210 by 200 centimeters and hung in the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
- Abstract expressionismIn 1946, the art critic Robert Coates applied the term abstract expressionism to American art for the first time. This label emerged during a period when New…
- CubismPablo Picasso unveiled a painting called Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907 that would become the starting point for Cubism.
- Constructivism (art)Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko founded Constructivism in 1915. This movement emerged from the ashes of World War I and Russian Futurism.
- ModernismIn 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection. This book undermined religious certainty and challenged the idea that…
- Art DecoParis, 1910. The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées rose from the ground on avenue Montaigne with a clean rectangular form and no decoration on its façade.
- Pop artEduardo Paolozzi stood before a group of artists in London during 1952 and projected a collage onto the wall. The image showed a revolver firing at a woman's…
- FuturismOn the 5th of February 1909, a young Italian poet named Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published a fiery declaration in the newspaper La gazzetta dell'Emilia.
- Avant-gardeIn 1825, Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues published an essay titled The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist. He used the French military term avant-garde…
- PrimitivismIn the arts of the Western world, Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of the primitive time, place, and…
- Russian avant-gardeThe year 1890 marked the beginning of a massive artistic shift in Russia. Artists began to reject traditional academic styles that had dominated the Russian…