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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A final dive into some of the most important artists of the pop artwork movement, looking at five more of the most distinctive and defining talents of this enduringly popular modern art genre. Mimmo Rotella An Italian artist linked to numerous movements including lettrism and nouveau realisme as well as pop art. Beginning his career […]
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Pushing deeper into the pop artist movement that continues to be as popular in contemporary society as it was when it happened, we look over the careers of five more of the modern art form’s most exciting and significant artists. Tom Wesselmann, the cartoonist Starting his art career sketching cartoons while he was in the […]
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For every major star Pop Artist that the whole world knows, like Warhol, or Lichtenstein, or Hockney, there are many more who made important contributions but get seen comparitively little outside of art world circles and art galleries. Below are four more outstanding artists from the pop art period, and beyond; though the movement is […]
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NFTs are the latest thing, but since the earliest days of the modern art movement, we’ve heard the words “but is it art?” uttered many times, especially as many artists sought specifically to break down and redefine what art was. Fauvism, abstractism, pop art, dadaism, minimalism, abstract expressionism, video art and art happenings all brought […]
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Pop art was perhaps one of modern art’s most successful movements, gradually evolving from a number of efforts to challenge the notions of what art was, and reclaim it, as a free creative space, from the strict limitations of classic tradition. At times celebrating, at times questioning, and often poking fun at popular consumer culture, […]
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The boom in contemporary NFT art sales over the last two years has created some eye catching headlines and auction prices, and something of a gold rush to get involved. Unlike traditional artforms such as oil painting, interesting NFTs can be created with little or no artistic ability. As such a number of celebrities with […]
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The modern art period ran from the late 1800s into the late 1900s, and represented a period of incredible experimentation in art where, at first, creatives sought to simply break painterly traditions of the past, but soon came to re-imagine what art even was. The period included so many fascinating and important movements that any […]
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Pop art emerged from decades of experimentation and creativity in the modern art period, which continually sought to redefine and re-imagine art, whether to purely break down the traditions of the past, or to push the boundaries of what art was or could be. At the end of this period, a generation of pop artists […]
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Post World War 1 and the inter-war years in modern art Whatever positivity and sense of fun experimentation had preceded the war began to tarnish and fade; anti-art movements such as dadaism emerged with artists like Duchamp, which sought to not so much change art as flip it entirely away from what had gone before. […]
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