When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 20th-century art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_art

    Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany. Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting. Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism.

  3. 20th-century Western painting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th-century_Western_painting

    20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre ...

  4. Contemporary art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_art

    Art from the past 20 years is very likely to be included, and definitions often include art going back to about 1970; [5] "the art of the late 20th and early 21st century"; [6] "both an outgrowth and a rejection of modern art"; [7] "Strictly speaking, the term 'contemporary art' refers to art made and produced by artists living today"; [8] "Art ...

  5. History of painting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_painting

    Across cultures, continents, and millennia, the history of painting consists of an ongoing river of creativity that continues into the 21st century. [1] Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational, religious and classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual approaches gained favor.

  6. Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

    The art of painter and engraver Émile Frédéric Nicolle, his maternal grandfather, filled the house, and the family liked to play chess, read books, paint, and make music together. Of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp's seven children, one died as an infant and four became successful artists. Marcel Duchamp was the brother of:

  7. Art history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_history

    Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...

  8. New materials in 20th-century art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_materials_in_20th...

    Pablo Picasso, Compotier avec fruits, violon et verre, 1912. The advent of Modernism and Modern Art in the first decades of the 20th century inspired artists to test and transcend the boundaries and the limitations of the traditional and conventional forms of art making in search of newer forms and in search of new materials.

  9. Modern art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

    Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubists Georges Braque, André Derain ...