Emerging around the same time as expressionism, cubism was amongst the first truly great leaps away from realism. More than just a differing approach to colour, or style of stroke, cubist artists attempted to re-imagine how the world could be depicted to capture an entirely different kind of reality. Sometimes described as like looking through […]
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Emerging in the 1940s and 1950s, Abstract Expressionism was the first truly American movement to impact internationally on the art world, shifting New York to the new epicentre from Paris. Taking inspiration from the spontaneous and subconscious creative ideals within surrealism, the movement was also informed by the intense emotions of German expressionism, and the […]
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