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
Outsider Art. origins, development, and trends between the twentieth century and the present day
Outsider Art refers to the spontaneous artistic production of innate talents but outsiders to the world of art education and conventional art, whose works are deemed to be of interest and quality. The English term was coined by British art historian ...Read more...
Informal Art. History, styles, artists
In the 1940s and 1950s after World War II, international art was characterized by a new aesthetic current,Art Informel, which expressed itself in various trends, mostly non-figurative, destined to influence subsequent developments in contemporary art...Read more...
Surrealism. Origins, styles and main exponents of the avant-garde movement
Surrealism was a European avant-garde literary and artistic movement that arose in Paris in the 1920s and spread internationally until the outbreak of World War II, covering everything from literature to painting, sculpture and photography to theater...Read more...
Bauhaus. Origins, development and main exponents of the school
The Bauhaus was a higher institute of art education founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, in the cultural-historical context of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), to promote a new educational method that could integrate art and industrial craftsmanship a...Read more...
Socialist realism. Origins, development and main exponents
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...Read more...
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Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture, in Palazzolo sull'Oglio two portraits by Ceruti and Ghislandi compared
Redazione - 06/12/2023 -
The Greccio nativity scene of St. Francis according to Giotto
Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta - 06/12/2023 -
Cleopatra's pool at Hierapolis-Pamukkale: bathing in the ancient baths
Andrea Laratta - 05/12/2023
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