Conceptual Art 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 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…
Arts and Crafts movement 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…. Topics: British Art, Ruskin
Young British Artists (YBA) in Retrospect 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… Topics: British Art, highlighted
Op art and the characteristics of the art movement 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… Topics: International art, op art, optical
History painting —the eternally misapprehended genre 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… Topics: Academy art, art history, European art, rennaisance
Orientalism 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… Topics: Academy art, British Art, French art, Orientalism
Spatialism 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… Topics: Arte Povera, Spatialism, zero art movement
Dieselpunk 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… Topics: Diesel punk, Lowbrow, Upcycling
Lowbrow art 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… Topics: Lowbrow, pop art
