Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect and a poet. His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni born on 6 March 1475 and died 18 February 1564. Michelangelo was […]
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Modern Art refers to art produced between the 1860s and 1970s. These works of modern art took a detour from traditional art and were often thought of as controversial. These […]
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Thanks to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Guggenheim, New York is home to one of the largest collections of Impressionist paintings in the world, […]
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Pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century, artists of the Cubism movement eschewed the realistic perspectives of space and form which had been used since […]
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People have been creating masterpieces out of stone for tens of thousands of years and while the first of these pieces may have been crude in comparison, they paved the […]
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Travelling the world opens one’s eyes to new experiences and we get to know ourselves better by looking through the eyes of a culture different to our own. Much like […]
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Artistic expression has been part of the culture of humans for thousands of years and there is evidence of artistic expression throughout the evolution of mankind. Here we countdown the […]
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The Italian Renaissance took place between the 14th and 16th centuries and was a period of significant cultural change across Europe. Artistic masters who displayed an interest in the beauty […]
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