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Dive into the fascinating history and different techniques of one of the most captivating art forms.

Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionism’s concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour.

Learn about Baroque, a style spanning art, architecture, and music that characterized Europe from the early 17th to the mid-18th century.

Learn about Fauvism, the short-lived avant-garde style that flourished around Henri Matisse in the early twentieth century.

From jewellery to furniture design, meet the most influential Art Deco designer.

After a century of its golden days, the iconic design style is making its way back into mainstream design and is blossoming in cities like Los…

Op Art employs tricks of visual perception and manipulating rules of perspective to produce illusions of vibrance, movement, and tension.

Avant-garde art pushes pre-existing boundaries and pursues unexplored artistic avenues. Learn about the most famous avant-garde works through art…

Art Nouveau was a turn of the century international art movement spanning the fields of visual arts, architecture, design and jewellery.

Exploring the monochrome: Simple yet complex, paintings made with only one colour or hue have been a staple of the avant-garde for more than 100…

What does fauvism mean and what is conceptual art all about? Speaking art seems like a discipline in itself and if you are new to the art world, you…

We explore the avant-garde art movement Surrealism, which favoured the irrational and the subconscious over modern society's oppressive rationality.

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Photography has developed at a rapid pace since it was first accepted as an art form in 1862 and has inevitably branched off into many different…

The cityscapes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the disturbing insights into the different captured by Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe’s haunting images of…

One aspect of building a fine art or valuables collection that should not be overlooked is preservation. As recognized in the professional art world,…

From the tombs of ancient Egypt to the hallowed halls of today's world-class museums, the practice of art collecting is almost as old as civilization…

For a lot of people, the art world seems to be a hermetically sealed society. Aren’t art fairs only for a specific selection of VIPs sipping…

Though talent is something that belongs solely to each individual artist, inspiration can come from many different places. Behind almost every artist…