Category: Movements

Social practice emerged as artists began moving away from the production of traditional objects and toward forms of art centered…

Bio art emerged as artists began engaging directly with biology, genetics, biotechnology, and living organisms as part of their creative…

Video art emerged during the 1960s and 1970s as artists began exploring the creative possibilities of portable video technology. Unlike…

Land art emerged in the late 1960s as artists began moving beyond galleries and museums to work directly within the…

Dada emerged during the turmoil of the First World War as a radical rejection of the cultural values that many…

Conceptual art emerged during the 1960s as a radical shift in artistic thinking, proposing that the idea behind an artwork…

Minimalism emerged in the 1960s as a radical break from the emotional intensity of Abstract Expressionism, introducing a visual language…

Surrealism has returned with unexpected force in the twenty-first century, emerging as a renewed visual and conceptual language capable of…

Abstract Expressionism emerged in the late 1940s as the first fully American art movement to reshape global culture. The world…

For much of the twentieth century, modernism ruled the art world. It was a movement of faith — faith in…

The 21st century has given rise to a new kind of artist — one whose palette includes algorithms, pixels, and…

In the early twentieth century, Europe was still reeling from the devastation of World War I. The optimism of modern…

In the noisy aftermath of Abstract Expressionism and the emotional explosions of mid-20th-century art, a new language emerged — one…

In the mid-20th century, as Abstract Expressionism filled museums with monumental canvases, a quieter yet equally radical transformation was taking…

The story of modern art begins with a rebellion. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the world was…