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Alexander Calder, Red Mobile, 1956. Painted sheet metal and metal rods, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Kinetic Art

Term used to describe art [...]

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Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound, 1913-1914

Futurism

An avant-garde movement founded in Milan in 1909. Its members aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past and to glorify [...]

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Henri Matisse. Portrait of Madame Matisse. (The green line). 1905. 40.50 x 32.5 cm. Oil and tempera on canvas

Fauvism

In 1905 an exhibition was held in Paris which included a [...]

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De Stijl

An artistic movement and magazine founded in Holland in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian. These men believed that art should strive towards complete harmony, order and [...]

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Dada

The name Dada is deliberately meaningless and was given to an international ‘anti-art’ movement that flourished from 1915 to 1912. Its main centre of activity was the Cabaret Voltaire in [...]

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Cubism

This revolutionary method of making a pictorial image was invented by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the first decade of the twentieth century. Although it may appear abstract and geometrical, [...]

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Constructivism

An abstract art movement founded in Russia in 1973. Constructivism swept away traditional notions about art, believing that it should imitate the forms and processes of modem technology. This was especially true of [...]

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Modern body painting

There has been a revival of body painting in the Western society since the 1960s, in part prompted by the liberalization of social mores regarding nudity. Even today there is a [...]

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Conceptual Art

In Conceptual Art it is the ‘concept’ behind the works, rather than the technical skill of the artist in making it, that is important. Conceptual Art became a major international phenomenon [...]

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Cobra

An international association of artists that existed in Europe from 1948 to 1951. The name Cobra was made up from the initials of the cities in which the original members of the association were living [Copenhagen, Brussels [...]