In Vienna in the late 1880s there was a growing dissent amongst artists about blinkered ideas of what constituted art. There was still a peculiarly…

At the tail end of modernism we received minimalism, because near the tail is the region where not only shit happens but also where all…

The first predominantly American art movement to really rub off on Europe was Abstract Expressionism. Its influence lead to strands of pop art, lyrical abstraction…

Although part of the jury is out discussing a misunderstood transliteration of the Italian ba[rocco], Rococo is a quirky French compound word believed to be…

Zero is one of the more influential art movements to emerge after WW2. In its infancy in Germany it took its name from a magazine…

According to some, Pop Art is dead and with anything dead, it is no good digging it up once a day to check if it…

As a genre and movement hyperrealism has an official definition and then there is the reality which inhabits a parallel universe. The crude definition In…

Shock art is much more a type of contemporary art than a movement per se. In recent history it has been tied to the ‘Sensation’…

If it is not Pop Art, then it is surrealist art that is the most pastiched and parodied of all art movements. Public nostalgia over Surrealism…

Dada, a cultural phenomenon from between 1916 to 1922, was essentially dualistic. On the one hand it was characteristic for its Destructivism. On the other…