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By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...

Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli  Beginning just nine years...

Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...

Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...

The Fluxus Movement was founded in 1960 by Lithuanian American artist George...

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

  When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...

Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...

Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

This just in: Sartle makes new friends!  Amelia, Victoria, and...

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...

The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...

  At the turn of the 20th century, creating art movements in Europe had...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...

This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...

Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...

If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...

via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...

The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...

Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager   Can you even...

Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...

YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

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Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...

Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...

Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

  When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...

We dont need no education

Mining doesn’t cause death

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...

Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...

You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...

The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...

The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...

Imagine all of Einstein’s writings, jottings, and mathematical theorems in crayon...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

Schizophrenia is that disease that everyone associates with “hearing voices.” There...

The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...

We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...

Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...

Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...

Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...

The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...

As far as rare natural phenomena go, the total eclipse is probably in the...

Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...

  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...

An art bromance or something more?   Land art celebrity and hippie...

Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...

Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...

Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...

Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...

Maybe you’ve been experiencing “The Agony and the Ecstasy” of trying to figure out...

The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...

They’re coming for your books.   Biblioclasm is the practice of...

The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...