Minimalism emerged at a time when abstract expressionism dominated the art scene, and in the emerging tradition of modern art, a small group of artists developed styles that reacted to it. Simplicity ruled; basic geometric shapes, single colours, and basic industrial materials created a deeply anonymous aesthetic, devoid of symbolism or emotion, and focused on […]
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The early 20th Century was a tumultuous period in art, and also the wider world, with wars, revolutions, and huge shifts in geopolitics and society. Artists were reconsidering what art was too and increasingly seeking to tear up the past, which these major worldwide events fed into and inspired. The First World War impacted so […]
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Surrealism sought to explore dreams and the unconscious, originating amongst writers and poets seeking ways to bring their subconscious into reality, creating a super-reality in the process. Often featuring surprising juxtapositions and subjects, the artists within the movement took inspiration from the Dadaists and psychoanalysis, exploring techniques like automatism and dream analysis to create images […]
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An important bridging point between the early Modern Art movements of cubism, fauvism, expressionism, and later movements such as constructivism, surrealism, and dada, the Futurist movement was an Italian-led movement, and focused hard of visualising future. It sought out content of the future such as technology, aeroplanes, and city scapes, as well as a style […]
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Impressionism was the first really popular artistic movement to diverge from traditional and classical art. It was a small step, freeing up artists to use more expressive brush strokes and colours, but most importantly it changed perspectives; art could be more than romanticised realism. It is also a movement linked to a vast number of […]
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One of the earliest of the Modern Art movements, emerging shortly after Impressionism, Symbolism sought to escape the representation of reality entirely, in favour of subjects like spirituality, imagination, and dreams. Many of the symbolist artists used quite a traditional and often realist style, but the subject matter was very much a shift, and the […]
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The NFT digital art market has long been suspected to be tied intrinsically to the fortunes of cryptocurrencies, but with both markets being very young, it was hard to be certain; correlation doesn’t always mean causation. Crypto markets began their bull run after a dramatic crash in spring 2020, and though there was a lift […]
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Expressionist art represented a huge step forward in the development of Modern Art ideas. Impressionism had first considered incorporating the subjectivity of the artist to the painting; allowing them to hint at mood and movement to better convey their impression on viewing the scene, but these were small steps into experimentation. Expressionism encouraged artists to […]
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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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There will always be names missed that may be deserving, but this is the last of our blogs on some of the great modern artists of the movement, including Impressionist master of movement Degas, Gauguin the Post-Impressionist who most admired him, Moore the great name of abstract sculpture, Chagall’s luminous stained glass colours, and Braque, […]
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