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The cover of the 1915 BLAST.

     Vorticism An English avant-garde movement founded by Wyndham Lewis in 1914. The name Vorticism came from the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni’s remark that all creative art emanates from an emotional vortex. Like Futurism, Vorticism employed a harsh, angular and highly dynamic style in both painting and sculpture [...]

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François Boucher, Le Déjeuner, (1739, Louvre), shows a rocaille interior of a French bourgeois family in the 18th century. The porcelain statuette and vase add a touch of chinoiserie.

 Rococo  

A light, playful and decorative style that emerged in France around 1700 and was disseminated throughout Europe in the eighteenth century. The term comes from [...]

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Demetrius Chalcondyles (1424 – 1511) was a Renaissance teacher of Greek and of Platonic philosophy who taught in Italy for over forty years; at Padua, Perugia, Milan and Florence.

  Renaissance

 Throughout the Middle Ages man lived in fear of God and within the omnipresence of the Church. Art generally showed the heaves and saints, and [...]

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Proserpine, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood  

An association of young English artists formed in 1848. Dismayed at what they saw as the decadent state of British painting, the Pre-Raphaelites sought to evoke the sincerity of early Italian art before the High Renaissance master Raphael, as exemplified by artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Filippo [...]

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The Disquieting Muses, by Giorgio De Chirico.

Pittura Metafisica [Metaphysical Painting]

Metaphysical Painting was founded in Italy in 1917 by Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carra’. It is characterized by distorted perspectives, unnatural lighting and strange imagery, often using tailors’ dummies and statues instead of the human body. By placing objects in unlikely contexts, the Metaphysical [...]

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  Movement in Squares, by Bridget Riley 1961.

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 Op Art

A movement in abstract art that developed in the 1960s. Op Art [short for ‘optical art’] exploits the fallibility of the human eye. The artist plays games with the viewer by creating images which appear to shimmer and pulsate. Although the work [...]

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Late Baroque classicizing: G. P. Pannini assembles the canon of Roman ruins and Roman sculpture into one vast imaginary gallery (1756)

// Neo [- Classicism, -Expressionism, -Romanticism]

The prefix ‘nero’, meaning ‘new’, refers to a revival of previous trends or ideas. Neo-classicism, for example, was a movement that developed in the latter half of the eighteenth [...]

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Paul Sérusier: The Bois d’Amour à Pont-Aven: The Talisman (Le Talisman), 1888, oil on wood, 27 x 21,5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Nabis

A small group of French artists, active in the 1880s, who were inspired by Paul Gauguin’s method of painting in [...]

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Piet Mondrian, Composition No. 10, 1939-42, oil on canvas, 80 x 73 cm, private collection.

Minimalism Art

A trend in painting and sculpture that developed primarily in the USA during the 1960s and 1970s. As the name implies, Minimalist Art is pared down to its essential; it [...]

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In Parmigianino’s Madonna with the Long Neck (1534-40), Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, highly stylized poses, and lack of clear perspective.

Mannerism

A development of the Renaissance style, Mannerism is [...]