Category: Modern Art

In libraries, universities, and art museums from Paris to Boston, one is likely to find monumental painted decorations by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Generally these internationally acclaimed public murals – Read More …

“…Burne-Jones in turn attracted the veneration of Aubrey Beardsley, probably the most remarkable English illustrator of the industrial age. He too was a precocious talent: at the age of fifteen Read More …

“B?cklin … was an energetic figure devoid of the languid melancholy of ‘decadence’. Italy’s light and aura of antiquity were decisive in his early development; his paintings quickly came to Read More …

The tendency towards greater sobriety in form and colour is apparent in the oeuvre of Leon Spilliaert. This Ostend artist was something of an outsider in his generation, slightly lost Read More …

When The Museum of Modern Art’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., met Aleksandr Rodchenko on his trip to Moscow in 1927—one of the first times an Anglophone art historian Read More …

“An international style of decoration and architecture which developed in the 1880s and 1890s. The name derives from the Maison de l’Art Nouveau, an interior design gallery opened in Paris Read More …

“An institute established in 1919 by Gropius from the old Weimar Academy of Fine Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts (which had been established by van de Read More …

Beardsley was the greatest black and white artist since Daumier, better in some ways because purer in line. No one came close to him in the Art Nouveau age, without Read More …

“Transcendentalism was the common interest of the painters who formed the Expressionist group known as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in 1910. It was also a deep-set part of Read More …

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar on April 1, 1919, as a merger of the Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School and the Weimar Academy of Fine Read More …