A dramatic version of life under a tumultuous disguise, the Baroque took center stage in many cultures throughout early 17th- to mid-18th century Europe, responding to an age riven with religious conflict, absolute monarchy and the shattering impact of scientific revelation upon long-held certainties. As the… Baroque Drama and Emotion

The art movement of modernism, which came into full flower in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a response to industrialization, urbanization, world wars and revolutionary ideas in psychology, philosophy and science that left human understanding deeply shaken. Modernists decried the imitation of nature… Modernism and the Genesis of Abstraction

The result of the student strike is that it opened up submission to everyone at school! WHAT IS IT Impressionism was a new movement in art developed by a group of French artists in the mid- to late-19th century. Painters such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,… Impressionism: Capturing the Fleeting Moment

From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, European art and intellectual thought experienced a profound rebirth that emerged from 1,000 years of darkness in the Middle Ages It manifested itself in an increased emphasis on humanism, realism, and classical antiquity known as The Renaissance. Artists started… The Renaissance: An Age of Humanistic Art