When someone says Surrealism, I bet one of the first things that come to mind is the name of the artist Salvador Dalí, right? This is natural, as the Spaniard firmly established himself in the history of art as one …
The group Die Brücke was founded by Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Otto Müller, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Over time, other artists have joined the group. Text: Yolanda Silva – author of the online course Analysing Art. Cover image: Nollendorfplatz, Ernst Kirchner (Group …
The expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter was founded by Wassily Kandinsky. The painters of this group looked for an art that expresses personal experiences of the life of the Man confronted with the Nature. Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Auguste …
The Gle mask and Picasso african influence . Text: Manuela Tenreiro “PhD in History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, I specialized in Arts and Cultures of the African Diaspora in 2008. Previously, I obtained a …
Hannah Höch is one of the less recognized Dada artists in the history of art. However, her contribution is seminal, in an era of Modernity and and in which the role of the woman gained new contours. A self …
«We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness». In 1909, the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro published the First Futurist Manifesto, by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a text that would become the guiding line of the …
Fritz Lang (Vienna, December 5, 1890 – Los Angeles, August 2, 1976) is considered one of the most famous representatives of German expressionism. The purpose of this post is to know the characteristics of the Expressionist movement and how it …
Expressionism refers to a set of artistic tendencies that took on different names and that lasted until after World War II. However, the ‘first’ Expressionism dates from about 1905 to 1914. Know the main characteristics and artists of this …