Tag: Art History
Dada was an international, avant-garde art and literary movement that flourished between 1915 and 1922. The Dadaists’ declared purpose was to protest the senseless violence of World War I, which…
A golden section is a line segment that has been divided into two parts in such a way that the ratio of the longer part (a) to the shorter part…
“In Les Mots et Les Images, René Magritte notes that ‘everything tends to make us think that there is very little connection between an object and what represents it’ and that ‘an object never fulfills…
By Eric Hatheway We tried to see when we did not know what we looked like. We were longing for landscapes which had long been destroyed. We saw ourselves as…
There is history. There is drunk history. And then, there is drunk art history. Cheers!
Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae music. Ska skillfully combined the elements of traditional Caribbean mento and calypso with…
A parallel revolt against the traditional modes of expression took place in poetry under the leadership of the Symbolists, who strove for direct poetic experience unspoiled by intellectual elements. They…
The stylistic changes that mark the shift from the Renaissance to the Baroque are very dramatic. The Baroque era spanned a turbulent century and a half. Roughly, the Baroque era…
Abstract art is generally taken to mean painting and sculpture by artists for whom the manner and the means are the subject rather than the representation of any object. All…