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New Objectivity
The New Objectivity was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism. The…
Primitivism
Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate "primitive" experience. In Western art, primitivism…
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the…
Minimalism
In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art,…
Lyrical abstraction
Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris,…
Lettrism
Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body…
Late modernity
Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societies as the continuation (or development) of…
Late modernism
In the visual arts, late modernism encompasses the overall production of most recent art made between the aftermath of World…
Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate…
Imagism
Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Imagism has…