With the invention of lithography and later photography, there were still plenty of improvements that could be made in the process for creating art prints, but artists largely had all they needed; photo quality reproduction of their art, freeing painters to paint rather than learn engraving techniques. Many artists still continued to work in specific […]
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With the invention of lithography and later photography, there were still plenty of improvements that could be made in to the printing process, but artists and art print masters largely had all they needed. Photo quality reproduction of their pieces was fully realised, freeing painters to paint rather than learn engraving techniques. Many artists still […]
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Taking a central and high profile position in Manhattan, New York, the Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest and most influential modern art galleries in the world. Conceived of in 1929 by Abby Rockefeller and two of her friends, it drew funding from the wealthy family and their network opening the same […]
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Multimedia art showed it’s first signs of evolving in the late 1960s, but truly came to be in the contemporary art period as the number of mediums began to increase almost exponentially. Often confused with mixed media art (which mixes visual media such as oils and pastels on a single canvas), multimedia revolves much more […]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the biggest and best art galleries in the Americas, with over 2 million artworks in the collection, and an exhibition space are which is amongst the largest in the world. Centrally located in Manhattan, The Met was established in 1870 to make art easily available to view […]
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Based in central London, the Tate Modern art galleries are the home of the UK’s national collection of modern and contemporary art, and one of the world’s largest art museums dedicated to the post-1900s art periods. Receiving almost 6 million visitors a year pre-pandemic, it is also amongst the most popular art galleries in the […]
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The often forgotten roots of the contemporary street art movement lie in Chicano art murals and the graffiti scene. Though man has always drawn onto walls in the interests of making his surroundings more attractive, the Chicano and graffiti movements added a spirit of artistry, independence, and defiance to it, often featuring social and political […]
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The new ways of thinking about art that emerged through the modern art period matured at a time when the whole of western society was thinking about a lot of things in new ways. Through the 1960s and 1970s, as modern art turned to contemporary, there were huge societal shifts in terms of race, sexuality, […]
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The Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France, has a powerful reputation as an exceptional modern art gallery, regularly appearing in lists of the greatest art galleries of any type. It focuses heavily on the French influence of the modern era, primarily through the pre-war period of impressionism and post-impressionism. These foundation stone movements, born in France, […]
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The first gallery on the list to focus on modern art from the 20th Century, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia was opened in Madrid in 1990. It is located close to the Museo del Prado and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza art galleries which cover the many movements and periods before modern art. The Reina […]
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