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The Pre-Raphaelites: This artistic brotherhood took medieval art and gave it a new spin.

In: 19th Century Art

By: Phillip Burghgraef

Art Book Review – Mexican Muralists: 240 Pages of Work by Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros

In: 20th Century Art

By: Scott Fogdall

Gericault & The Raft of the "Medusa": A Neo-Baroque Masterpiece

In: 19th Century Art

By: Phillip Burghgraef

A Gallery of Nazi Theft: The Museum of Hitler's Dreams

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Duncan McGibbon

ROW: Reflections on Water Forum & Discussion: Environmental Art Exhibit and Local Action with Global Perspective

In: 21st Century Art

By: Simone Keiran

Artist Henri Patrice Dillon: Young Diplomat Turned Chronicler Of Paris Life

In: 19th Century Art

By: Gail Mangold-Vine

Elizabeth Siddal – Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse: Troubled Red-Haired Beauty Became an Art Icon

In: 19th Century Art

By: Jenny Ashford

The Modern History of Art in Afghanistan: An 89-year Fine Art Story

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Rachel Schaus

Judy Chicago and The Dinner Party: American Artist's Installation Piece an Icon in Feminist Art History

In: 20th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Future Unveiled by French Artist Suzanne Valadon: Painting Brings Up Feminist Art History and Female Sexuality

In: 20th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an Overview: "Desperate Romantics" Series Profiles19th-Century British Artists

In: 19th Century Art

By: Solange Berchemin

Avant-Garde – Abstraction in Constructivism: Vladimir Tatlin's 'The Monument to the Third International'

In: 20th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Avant-Garde – Towards Abstraction: Synthetism and Paul Gaugin's Painting 'The Yellow Christ'

In: 19th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Avant-Garde – The Beginning: Realism and Gustave Courbet's Painting 'The Stonebreakers'

In: 19th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Who Were the Indian Space Painters? How Traditional Native American Art Inspired a 20th-Century Movement

In: 20th Century Art

By: Scott Fogdall

Great Still Life Painters in Western Art: Selected Masters, from the Renaissance to Photorealism

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Scott Fogdall

Biography of the Russian Artist Ilya Repin: This 19th Century Painter was a Pioneer of Realism

In: 19th Century Art

By: Victoria Robinson

A Good Night Hug: A Painting by Mary Cassatt

In: 19th Century Art

By: Maria Olaguera

The Life of Elizabeth Siddal: Biography of Lizzie Siddal, Pre-Raphaelite Model and Muse

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Jillian Bost

The Arizona Desert and Frank Lloyd Wright: Principles of Organic Architecture at Taliesin West

In: 20th Century Art

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Futurist Manifesto – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: European Art Movement Spread Rapidly to Russia, America and Japan

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West: The Creation of an Architectural Fellowship in the Arizona Desert

In: 20th Century Art

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Profile of the Victorian Artist Richard Dadd: This English Painter Worked Obsessively Throughout his Incarceration

In: 19th Century Art

By: Victoria Robinson

Josef Lada: 20th Century Czech Artist: Painter, Illustrator, Satirist and Children's Author

In: 20th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Profile of Russian Artist Mikhail Vrubel: This Late 19th-Century Painter Founded Russian Art Nouveau

In: 19th Century Art

By: Victoria Robinson

Was it Murder? The Fate of Artist Tom Thomson: The Death of Thomson in Algonquin Park Remains Unsolved

In: 20th Century Art

By: Terry McNamee

Constructivism - The Artist As Worker: The Advertising Legacy Created By An Art Movement

In: 20th Century Art

By: Melissa Mostyn

Constructivism: The End Of Painting? A Look At Key Works In 5x5=25

In: 20th Century Art

By: Melissa Mostyn

Constructivism - How It Began: The Bolsheviks And The New Russian Avant-Garde

In: 20th Century Art

By: Melissa Mostyn

International Klein Blue: The Story of Ultramarine And The Man Who Patented It

In: 20th Century Art

By: Melissa Mostyn

The Color Red in Three Paintings: In the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Post-Impressionist Cone Collection

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Weeping Woman with Handkerchief by Pablo Picasso: Guernica Collections, Antiwar Masterpieces of 1937

In: 20th Century Art

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Cubism: Early Twentieth-Century Art Movements: Picasso and Braque as Modern Art Masters

In: 20th Century Art

By: Marc Zeale

Futurism: Umberto Boccioni: Marinetti's Contemporary Shaped Twentieth Century Art

In: 20th Century Art

By: Victoria Robinson

Fauvism: Early Twentieth-Century Art Movements: Henri Matisse and Fauvist Influences on Modern Art

In: 20th Century Art

By: Marc Zeale

Martin Benka: Slovak Painter and Illustrator: The Father of Slovak Modernist Art

In: 20th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

Two Critical Views of Women and Art: Paglia and Nochlin Examine Women’s Relationship to Art and Feminism

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

Corot's Ville d'Avray on a Postcard: In Miniature, Painting Seems to Lose its Subtle Complexity

In: 19th Century Art

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

Michel Foucault's Panopticism: An Art Historical Perspective

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

Poe and Primitivism in Gauguin's Nevermore: A Post-Impressionist Painting Inspired by "The Raven"

In: 19th Century Art

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

John William Waterhouse's Painting 'Ophelia': A Victorian Artist's Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Tragic Beauty

In: 19th Century Art

By: Shannon Leigh O'Neil

José Clemente Orozco: Murals at Dartmouth College

In: 21st Century Art

By: Heather Hurd

A Conversation With Michael Joo: An Interview With The Korean American Artist

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Review of Fugitive Pieces: An Exhibition by Edmund Goubert for the IP Art Festival

In: 21st Century Art

By: Marius Goubert

Brian Reed British Artist: The Contemporary Artist and Consumerism

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Experiment Experiência Art From Brazil: The Great Brazilian Art Show

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Katarzyna Kozyra Polish Artist: A Critical Study Of The Artist's Work "Bath House"

In: 20th Century Art

By: Paul Black

John Goto British Artist: Capital Arcade

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Michael Joo A Conversation: An Interview With The Korean American Artist

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Mike Nelson British Artist: The Artist And His Work Tripple Bluff Cannon

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Richard Wilson British Artist: Irons In The Fire

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

The Art Of John Goto: Capital Arcade

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

The Digital Art Of John Goto: Capital Arcade

In: 21st Century Art

By: Paul Black

Women Artists - Hannah Wilke: Profile of Feminist Performance and Multimedia Artist

In: 20th Century Art

By: Shona Black

Women Artists - Tracey Emin: Profile of Iconic British Contemporary Artist

In: 21st Century Art

By: Shona Black

Claude Monet and Giverny Garden: Water Lilies, Ponds, Japanese Bridge, and Weeping Willow Paintings

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Claude Monet Years Before Giverny: French Impressionist Painter, Artist

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Claude Cahun: French Surrealist Photographer: Rediscovered Contemporary of Man Ray

In: 20th Century Art

By: Zuzana Minarikova

John Cooper: Beyond West Kootenay Landscapes: Late 20th-Century Artist Transcends Time & Place in Paintings

In: 20th Century Art

By: Simone Keiran

When Commemorative Statues & Public Art Offends: New Denver & Nelson, BC: Lessons on Homage, Pilgrimage & Sensitivity

In: 21st Century Art

By: Simone Keiran

Subjects by Ingres and Courbet: 19th-Century Painters Experimented with Perspective and Proportion

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Korean Munjado Screen: Asian Screens With Decorated Chinese Characters

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Andy Warhol a Founder of Pop Art: New Direction for American Art of the 1960s

In: 20th Century Art

By: Todd Murray

A Wild Carnival Ride: Theme Park Art: A Look at the Visual Impact & Appeal of Amusement Park Attractions

In: 21st Century Art

By: Simone Keiran

Abstract-Expressionism: American Painter Jackson Pollock: the "One That Broke the Ice"

In: 20th Century Art

By: Todd Murray

Giovanni Segantini - a Short Biography: Italian Divisionist Painter Showing at National Gallery

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

Salvador Dali Artist And Man: Impressionist Cubist Surrealist And Classical Art

In: 21st Century Art

By: Georgia Fowler

Gary Hume: Door Paintings: The YBA Artist At Modern Art Oxford

In: 20th Century Art

By: Paul Black

Paul Gauguin Life and Works: French Painter and Engraver, Post-Impressionist Artist

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Whistler's Nocturne Falling Rocket: Subject of Libel Suit Against Critic John Ruskin in 1878

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Marc Chagall French Painter: Born in Russia to a Jewish Family, Artist Chagall Painted Magic

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Mary Rayme

Mosaics at Westminster Cathedral: Decoration started by Members of Arts and Crafts Movement Continues

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

Marble in Westminster Cathedral: Floor and Wall Decorations in Cathedral of the Precious Blood

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe: O'Keeffe Painted New Mexico Light Effects Despite Failing Vision.

In: 20th Century Art

By: Jennifer Harrison-Konz

Westminster Cathedral - London: Art by Eric Gill, John Francis Bentley, Tom Phillips and Boris Anrep

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

John Constable's Tribute: A Painting to Memorialize a Monument for Sir Joshua Reynolds

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

The Painter Francis Bacon: Bacon's Quest for the Abject Interior

In: 20th Century Art

By: Catherine Owen

20th-Century Artist Self-Portraits: With Young Girl, With a Self-Portrait, As a Monk, or With Skeleton

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Phoebe Anna Traquair - Illustrator: Leading Female Artist of the Scottish Arts and Crafts Movement

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

Sonnets from the Portuguese: Text by Phoebe Traquair based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems

In: Modern Art History (general)

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

20th-Century Artist-Writers: Englishman John Bratby and Spaniard Antonio Tàpies

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Fascination with Elements of War: In Modern artist Giacomo Balla and Irish Painter Daniel Maclise

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

The Erotic Art of Egon Schiele: An Expressionist Painter's Life

In: 20th Century Art

By: Catherine Owen

Dada Artist Max Ernst: First Used Frottage in His Work in 1925

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Naturalistic Self-Portraits: With a Fellow Artist, With a Black Dog, and With the Colosseum

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

The Pre-Raphaelites: origins of a brotherhood of English 19th century artists

In: 19th Century Art

By: George Frederick Winter

Pollock and Lichtenstein: 20th-Century American Painters

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Word into Art at the British Museum: Artists of the Modern Middle East

In: 21st Century Art

By: Feature Writer Frances Spiegel

Percy Wyndham Lewis: 20th-Century British Vorticist Painter

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Paul Nash and Yves Tanguy: Two 20th-Century English and French Painters

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Which 19th-Century Painter: What are Millais, Beardsley, Cezanne, and Monet known for?

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Eugene Delacroix: Greatest French Romantic Painter of 19th century

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

Name the Early-20th-Century Artist: Can You Identify These Early 20th-Century European Painters?

In: 20th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Guess the European Artist: Can You Name These 19th-Century English and French Painters?

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

Vincent van Gogh's Life and Times: Post-Impressionist Dutch Painter Famous for "The Starry Night"

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Tel Asiado

"The Poor Poet”: This painting by Carl Spitzweg is filled with symbols – from the familiar scene of the starving artist living in a remote loft to the top hat, walking stick and cravat that epitomizes a typical 19th-century German – and is itself a symbol of the Biedermeier era.

In: 19th Century Art

By: Feature Writer Suzanne Hill

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