Suprematism

Suprematism

Definition: Suprematism was a Russian abstract art movement founded around 1915 by Kazimir Malevich, based on the idea that pure geometric shapes and colour — not the depiction of objects — express the “supremacy” of pure artistic feeling. Historical and...
Conceptual Art

Conceptual Art

Definition: Conceptual Art, developing strongly from the mid-1960s, holds that the idea or concept behind a work is more important than its finished visual or material form. Historical and Social Context Conceptual Art grew out of the questioning spirit of Dada and...
Pop Art

Pop Art

Pop Art A can of soup does not belong in a museum. That was the joke, and then it wasn’t. When Pop Art started showing up on gallery walls in the mid-1950s, it took the stuff nobody thought twice about, like soda bottles, comic panels, movie stars, and cereal...