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An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.
How Art Made the World is a 2005 five-part BBC One documentary series, with each episode looking at the influence of art on the current day situation of our society. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] "The essential premise of the show," according to Nigel Spivey , "is that of all the defining characteristics of humanity as a species, none is more basic than the ...
Auto-destructive art (ADA) is a form of art invented by Gustav Metzger, an artist born in Bavaria who moved to Britain in 1939. Taking place after World War II , Metzger wanted to showcase the destruction created from the war through his artwork.
Aug. 25—The Old Man rose from the kitchen table with some difficulty, getting up in stages that unfolded, like a carpenter's ruler, one section at a time. He straightened his back gradually ...
Keeping It Real Art Critics (also known as KIRAC) is a web series on YouTube and Vimeo exploring the international art world. Directed by Stefan Ruitenbeek, a Dutch artist and director, KIRAC episodes occupy the middle ground between art and art criticism and focus mainly on the influence of modernistic, democratic principles within the art world.
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
Artist inspired by council estate childhood wants to make art more inclusive. Photographer's images expose mum's dementia agony. She took a week off work and then threw herself into painting.
The use of motion lines in art is similar to the lines showing mathematical vectors, which are used to indicate direction and force. A similar effect is found in long-exposure photography , where a camera can capture lights as they move through time and space, blurred along the direction of motion .