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Minimalism_and_Earthworks_

Minimalism isn’t simple, although Judd, Smithson, Christo and others did use simple forms to convey complex issues about the nature of art.

Architecture_and_design

What about architecture? F.L. Wright’s Guggenheim and Mies’ Seagram Building each drew on classical precedents to create beauty in the modern city.

Early_abstraction_Fauvism_Expressionism_Cubism

Matisse, Kandinsky, Picasso all used abstraction to invent new systems of representation.

Art_between_the_wars_the_avant_garde_and_the_rise_of_totalitarianism

Utopia and the dream preoccupied artists during the depression and the rise of dictators like Hitler.

Figuration_abstraction_in_post_war_Britain

In the years of recovery after WWII, British artists explored both abstraction and figural representation as we see with Henry Moore and Anthony Caro.

World_War_I_Futurism_and_Dada

Boccioni and the Futurists responded very differently than did Duchamp and the Dada artists to the violence of the Great War.

Abstract_Expressionism_the_New_York_School

After WWII, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko and other abstract artists reinvented painting.

A_beginner_s_guide_to_20th_century_art

If abstract art puzzles you, this is a great place to start.

Pop

Wham! Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg crashed the gates of high culture asking what authentic art looks like in a society filled with tawdry commercial images.

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