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Abstract Expressionism
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Baroque
Read more...Following the Protestant Reformation launched by Martin Luther in 1517 and the advances in science made in the sixteenth century, the papacy and the absolute monarchies of Europe desperately needed t...
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Arts and Crafts
Read more...Reacting against the strictures of the international academic style, Russian artists turned to native arts and crafts for inspiration, often deriving subject-matter from Russian history and fairytales...
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Post-Impressionism
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Cubism
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Expressionism
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École de Paris
Read more...The group of non-French artists in Paris before and after the First World War included artists like Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Ossip Zadkin and Jac...
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Eclecticism (Historicism)
Read more...Eclecticism (also known as Historicism) combined new architectural elements with former styles to create a wide variety of possible designs. The word comes from the Greek eklektikos (“selective”), im...
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New Objectivity
Read more...In the early twentieth century, Russian avant-garde art was exclusively correlated to the art of France. Even when Kazimir Malevich suggested not linking oneself to any one country or any art at all,...
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Video Art
Read more...The history of Russian video art began in 1985, when artist Andrey Monastyrsky asked Sabine Haensgen – a doctoral student from West Germany, who had gone to Russia to collect material for her PhD the...
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