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From reading the articles on allbuyart.com you
will be able to understand your 20th century contemporary art movements,
from your Abstract Art, Post-Impressionism, Op art, Pop art,
Conceptual art, De- Stijl, through to your Fauvism, Surrealism,
Minimalism, Modernism, Cubism, Futurism and Dadaism. You will also be able
to read about the abstract artists or any individual
famous artists which has dominated a particular modern art movement.
Why do you need to know what these modern art
movements are before you buy artwork? Answer - So that you can choose
your original artwork more efficiently and know what style of contemporary
art you are buying. Also it's a good feeling to know your
contemporary art movements so that when you next go to a modern
art gallery or museum, you know which modern art paintings or drawings belong in which
movements and you will feel like an expert!!! |
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The movement of Op Art
started in 1964. A group of
artists were demonstrating
the relationship between seeing and
understanding through painting artwork
that consisted of optical illusions.
The idea of this concept
was to highlight the fact that the eye
can trick the mind into seeing things
that aren't there. If Art can trick
the mind so can words and propaganda... |
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The modern art
movement of Dadaism was in its prime
from the period of 1916 to 1920. In 1916
Hugo ball (a German poet) was exiled and
set up a cafe in Zurich called the Cabaret
Voltaire. Bohemian artists, musicians and
writers frequented the cafe creating an
atmosphere that emphasized artistic
freedom and creation!
Dadaism was an art Movement
which took the artwork... |
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The movement of Conceptual
Art was all about free thinking. The
belief was that the power of art is
behind the thinking not necessarily the
finished article. This evolved into a
way of thinking that emphasised the
free thinking of art and to look
everywhere and anywhere for ideas. In
Conceptual Artwork any idea is a good idea.
The modern/contemporary art movement
of Conceptual Art became large in the 60s |
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If I could, I would have written this
article with only five words, 'don't
buy modern art prints!' Unfortunately
it wouldn't be a fair evaluation of
why you shouldn't buy modern art prints
and you probably wouldn't take my word
for it. So I will explain why you shouldn't
buy modern art/contemporary art prints.
Modern art artists put a huge amount of
effort, focus and creative thinking
into their work and they receive... |
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Only buy from
online art galleries that provide
a minimum of 7 days money back
guarantee. This will insure that if the
artwork isn't what you expected or
you don't like it then you
can send it back and get your money
back. However! You must make sure that
you return the paintings or drawings in their original
packaging and pay for postage. The
painting must not be damaged... |
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With the wide range of Modern Art paintings
available these days and the fact that
a painting will look perfect
with any interior (old or new) means
Modern Art paintings are the perfect gifts for
weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and
other special occasions. Plus modern art
still gives the 'WOW!' effect
no matter whether its abstract art,
Pop art or whatever, due to contemporary art's
ability to truly... |
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The Highlighting factor of
De Stijl was the fact that art was
being used to design architecture and
furniture. The founders of De Stijl
were Piet Mondrian, Van Doesburg and
Bart Van Der Leck. De Stijl translates
into English as 'The Style'. There
were three periods of De Stijl: The
Immature period which lasted from 1916
to 1921, the mature period which
lasted from 1921 to 1925 and the... |
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The movement of Pop Art was
a hugely successful contemporary art movement.
The hight of it's popularity was during the 1960s
was during the 1960s. The champions
of Pop Art were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy
Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. It is
widely thought that Pop Art was a
reaction to abstract expressionism
or it was an evolutionary move from<
abstract expressionism. The concept of
Pop Art was parallel... |
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The art
movement of Abstract Expressionism
was in full flow by 1946. The
pioneers of Abstract Expressionism
were Jackson Pollock and his partner
Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Willem de
Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline,
Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell,
Barnett Newman and Philip Guston. These
artists formed the New York School.
The contemporary art... |
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In the early 1900s
artists wanted the freedom to express
emotion through their art. They wanted
to paint their emotional response to
objects and not just what they saw.
The idea behind the
contemporary art movement of
Expressionism was that it would be the
vehicle for artists to freely paint
what they felt as opposed to what is
actually there. Abstract art... |
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The modern art movement of Futurism
was Italian and founded in 1909 and
started to diminish in 1918 just as
World War 1 was starting. The aim of
Futurism was to object to traditional
conventionalism and to wage war
against the art of the 19th Century.
The 20th Centaury was a new time when
people were starting to prosper,
health and hygiene was getting... |
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The contemporary art
movement of Impressionism was in
motion in 1867. The idea behind the
contemporary art movement
of Impressionism was that the artist
would convey, through their art work,
an effect of communicating to the
viewer in a manner that would make
the viewer see an object in the way
that someone would see that object
if they were to glance at it... |
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Breaking Art News |
Headline: Dawn Mellor - Vile Affections
Vile Affections
For the past ten years, Dawn Mellor has been painting portraits of celebrities, consciously misrepresenting, sexualising and violating imagery culled from photographic portraits, gossip magazines, film stills and the internet. The combination of imaginative sadistic cruelty, satire and empathy could be seen as communicating something about the use of both individuals and groups as scapegoats onto which unwanted fears and anxieties are projected.
Mellor's subjects range from well known actors and entertainers such as Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, Nicole Kidman and Michael Jackson to politicians and world leaders including, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Condoleezza Rice, writers and academics Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Giles Deleuze and Helene Cixous. This exhibition will comprise over sixty works clustered together salon style in the main gallery space. The exhibition also includes a new series of paintings of the actress Julianne Moore and drawings of Britney Spears for Spacex.
Mellor invents, with black humour, personas or positions from which each series of work is made. In this case that of a violent, paranoid and competitive outsider to 'high society' with quasi-religious delusions and fantasies of power and divine judgement. Mellor's 'persecution' of her subjects makes reference to Satre's famous suggestion that hell is other people, or in this case, hell is misrepresentation... |
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