Vienna Secession 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… Topics: Gustav Klimt, Secession, Vienna
Was minimalism abducted by aliens working for the press? 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… Topics: art movement, Donald Judd, minimal art, minimalism
Abstract Expressionism — a club for angry old men 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… Topics: Abstract expressionism, American art
Rococo style and art movement 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… Topics: art movement, rococo
Zero art group and movement 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… Topics: art movement, German art, International art, kinetic, Otto Piene, zero art movement
The Pop art or Pop fart legacy — you decide which one it is 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… Topics: Andy Warhol, Arte Povera, pop art
Hyperrealism 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 defined – art of shock bent on shocking your YBA socks off 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’… Topics: art movement, Britart, concept art, contemporary art, shock art
Surrealism – the origin and characteristics of Surrealism as a movement 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… Topics: art movement, breton, Dali, International art, Magritte, Surrealism, surrealist
DaDa or Dadaism 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… Topics: art movement, collage, dada, Dadaism, merz, photo montage
