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What is Urban Art? Who are the main artists?
In the second part of the 20th century, we see the explosion of street art or urban art, as a way of expressing and communicating a message or brand through images, illustrations or symbols in public space.The practice of graffiti grew, initially in New York, but quickly spread firmly in other contemporary cities, thus challenging the prevailing canons of artistic practices. Find out in this article which were the two Portuguese artists who stood out in this field.
What is cubism? What are the characteristics of the movement?
Cubism was a vanguard movement of the early 20th century, which was characterized by the abandonment of classical perspective and the fragmentation of forms by representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface. The origins of this movement, conceived by just two artists, is usually identified with the creation of the famous painting byDemoiselles d'Avignon per Pablo Picasso, however it was from the works of Paul Cézanne that this one emerged. Find out more about this movement in the new article.
What is Abstract Art? What are the characteristics?
Abstractionism or abstract art was an artistic movement integrated into the European modernist vanguards.Breaking with old paradigms, they expressed themselves by fleeing reality itself, in an abstract way with lines and above all with color. With abstract art, the spectator was given the possibility to interpret geometric shapes and the exploration of pigments freely.Discover in this article the main artists of this movement.
The representation of animals in the history of art
In the Plastic Arts, the theme of animals is recurrent, since the beginning of humanity due to the constant interest of Man in representing them due to cultural, historical, social, religious, scientific and ethical factors. In order to understand how the society of each respective era approached animal representation, in this article we go through creative and social terms, from the beginning of humanity to the present day.