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1917 – the Readymade was invented and exhibited by Marcel Duchamp with his work "The Fountain", an upturned urinal signed by the artist. The Readymade expanded the definition of art and of an artist. [4] 1917 – De Stijl, a kind of art based on pure geometry, was invented by Theo van Doesburg.
Inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art, the classical history paintings of the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) and the ideas of the German writer Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779) and the German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), Neoclassicism began in Rome, but soon spread throughout Europe.
Slatkin, Wendy, Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the 20th Century, Prentice Hall, NJ, 1985. ISBN 978-0-13-027319-2. Spies-Gans, Paris A., A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830, London and New Haven: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press, 2022.
1841 in art – Birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Collapsible zinc oil paint tube invented 1840 in art – Birth of Claude Monet ; Death of Caspar David Friedrich 1830s
By the mid-19th-century painters became liberated from the demands of their patronage to only depict scenes from religion, mythology, portraiture or history. The idea "art for art's sake" began to find expression in the work of painters like Francisco de Goya, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner.
Splined canvas can be restretched by adjusting the spline. Stapled canvases stay stretched tighter over a longer period of time, but are more difficult to re-stretch when the need arises. Canvas boards are made of canvas stretched over and glued to a cardboard backing, and sealed on the backside. The canvas is typically linen primed for a ...
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In a statistical study of US employment among art faculties published in 1977, Sandra Packard notes that "in art departments women have been decreasing in number since the 1930s", and that the number of women in art faculties at institutes of higher education "decreas[ed] from 22% in 1963 to a low of 19.5% in 1974", and cites statistics ...