Shortly after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) a group of artists took their political messages to the great lengths by incorporating them into large public art pieces. The murals of this time were ...

In the early 1900s, art movements within the then-burgeoning category of modern art were exploding in multiple directions, and among them was a strand called Orphism. What was it? In some ways, it is ...

"Published in hardcover in the USA as Art in the modern era : a guide to styles, schools and movements"--T.p. verso. 1860-1900 : rise of the Avant-Gardes -- Impressionism -- Arts and crafts -- Chicago ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Love it or loathe it, there’s no denying that Cubism paved the way for dozens of subsequent modern art movements, from Purism and Precisionism to Surrealism, and continues to inform abstraction in art ...

BBC arts editor and former Tate director Gompertz sees a paradox in the contemporary “love affair” with modern art: while people increasingly visit museums such as MOMA and the Pompidou, they often do ...