Why Was Futurism Important?

This article summarizes the artistic movement known as Futurism and suggests its importance in early twentieth century modern art.

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Irving Penn's Extraordinary Portrait Photographs

At age 90 Irving Penn, the dean of American potrait photographers, continues his work in New York City. As did Richard Avedon, Penn began at Vogue magazine in the 1940s. Penn's portraits span time and subjects unmatched by any other photographer.

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to see you naked is to recall the earth: nude paintings of the female form

I was in the zone researching for the second part of my series on art movements when I stumbled upon a major blockade - a parade of nude women that seem to appear in every high and low points of art history....

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Book review of Understanding Installation Art from Duchamp to Holzer by Mark Rosenthal

The book Understanding Installation Art from Duchamp to Holzer, by Mark Rosenthal, is an insightful book into the nature and history of installation art. Mr. Rosenthal makes the case that the medium of...

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What is Dadaism and Dada Movement in Europe

       Dada was a movement that arose in Europe in the aftermath of World War I horrors. Due to the war, a number of intellectuals, writers and artists congregated in Zurich. They were mostly of French...

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What is Avant Garde?

A writer who works according to the conventions of the past, instead of inventing new ones, is really producing old rotting bananas. This is the central argument of exponents of avant-garde attitudes or in more modern parlance, “out there” attitudes; the word avant-garde may itself be a rotting banana since it is a product of a past generation.

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Dada - A hundred years of Counter Culture

Dada, an art movement created out of the fighting of the First World War, the begining of the Counter culture and anti-art movements.

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Duchamp: The MacGyver of the Art World?

MacGyver, that dramatic character so memorably portrayed by Richard Dean Anderson, has achieved the cultural cult status of adding to the dictionary (or at least the popular lexicon) the terms "MacGyverism"...

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Kinetic Art- An Introduction

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Men’s Cufflinks of Style

This term denotes a decorative fastener used to connect two sides of a cuff on a dress shirt. If you buy a French Cuff or Double Cuff where button holes are situated on both sides of the cuff, but there are no...

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