Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but were undoubtedly central to the development of 20th-century avant-garde art. Movements such as Fauvism, Tonalism, and Rayonism left their ...

Throughout history, artistic movements have stood as a cultural symbol of their times. Cubism and the work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque revolutionized everything from art and writing to ...

The mid-20th century was a fertile time for the invention of artistic movements. Minor movements bridged the major movements; Surrealism made the transition to abstract Expressionism through an ...

“For almost every decade of the 20th century, a new art movement or “ism” developed: Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Conceptual art, Minimalism.

This week in art news: a portrait recently reattributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo went on view at the Frick, an audit attributed Documenta's budget deficit to its Athens expansion, and a ...

BERKSHIRES AND ART. AN INSEPARABLE RHYTHM. THEY DON’T SIMPLY COEXIST. THEY FLOW THROUGH ONE ANOTHER LIKE WIND, THROUGH TREES.

We have not had a major artistic movement, in literature or art, for something like 30 years, not since the various offspring of postmodernism blew themselves out in the early 1980s.

Stylistically, rap has exploded, and the pieces fall everywhere from the mind-bogglingly complex to the unbelievably simple, from the brazenly dissident to the unapologetically mainstream. Rappers ...

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