Forever pushing the envelope — or its luck, conceptual art will be with us for a very long time and it would be sorely missed…

Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts from a period in European history known as the Renaissance. It emerged as a distinct style…

My house is my castle is an expression so ingrained in contemporary society that you might think everyone once wanted to live in gothic castles….

The Young British Artists, Brit Art and YBA are all name tags used to refer to a crop of 1987-1989 graduates from Goldsmiths, who have…

The name tag Op art fist appeared in Time Magazine on the 23rd of October 1964 referring to the art by Julian Stanczak. Within that…

Ask all your friends what history painting is, and both of them would be 90% wrong. One would suggest it is old stuff. The other…

As a largely French and British obsession, orientalism appears to celebrate a heavy and mysterious cargo of otherness little understood in its own age of…

One of the art movements peculiar for always having influenced artists more so than art historians happens to be Spatialism. With some sweeping generalisations, the…

Any name which includes ‘punk’ suggests countercultural anti-establishment, and in a sort of toothless way, Dieselpunk is certainly not impressing the art world. But that…

In our series of summarised art movements, Lowbrow art is a genre that gained momentum in the 1970s. As a direction in art, it is…