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Founded as a backlash against abstract expressionism, minimalism was characterized by simplified, stripped-down forms and materials used to express ideas in a direct and impersonal manner. By presenting objects as...
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Is a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection-or is it merely a black void, the "false mirror," as the surrealist Ren? Magritte entitled his 1928 painting of an eye? Do self-portraits reveal how artists see...
In 1884 Paris saw the publication of A Rebours (translated both as Against the Grain and Against Nature), a cult fin-de-siecle novel that would create a sensation little short of perverse in the European art scene....
The Blaue Reiter ("Blue Rider") group of artists was formed in Munich in 1911 on the initiative of two outstanding artists: Wassily Kandinsky, the fundamental pioneer of purely abstract painting, and Franz Marc, the...
