AB Art Base - Finestre sull'Arte

AB Art Basics, the art history elements project of Windows on Art. Articles on the great artists and movements with all the basics to start learning about them. Art history from ABC.

Project coordination: Federico Giannini - Ilaria Baratta

Texts by: Ilaria Baratta, Andrea Derni, Federico Giannini, Gabriele Giannini, Cristina Principale, Mirsada Shmidra, Luca Suppressa, Valentina Vadilonga, Arianna Vallarino

Socialist realism. Origins, development and main exponents

15/05/2023

Socialist Realism was an artistic trend that emerged and imposed itself in theUSSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) from the mid-1920s, following the 1917 revolution, Lenin's death and Stalin's subsequent 1924 rise to power. Socialist Realis...
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Constructivism. History and style of the Russian avant-garde movement.

15/05/2023

Constructivism was an avant-garde movement that developed in Russia in the ideological and cultural context of the years around the 1917 Revolution and together with Suprematism constitutes one of the two main Soviet artistic currents of the early 20...
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Suprematism. History and style of the Russian avant-garde movement.

15/05/2023

Suprematism was an avant-garde movement theorized by the Russian painter Kazimir Severinovič Malevič (Kiev, 1879 - Leningrad, 1935) around 1913, which together with Constructivism constitutes one of the two main Soviet artistic currents of the earl...
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Vorticism. History and style of the English davantgarde movement.

13/03/2023

Vorticism was a short-lived literary and artistic movement that flourished in England in 1914 by British painter and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis (Amherst, 1882 - London, 1957) and a diverse group of young artists. The name of the movement was coined b...
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Dadaism. Origins, development and main exponents of the avant-garde movement

30/01/2023

Dadaism or the Dada movement was an avant-garde artistic and literary movement with an international scope, which arose in Zurich in 1916 and spread to other countries in reaction to World War I, the artistic norms and nationalism of the time, which ...
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