This Month's Feature
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Featured Warnborough Art Historian
This Month's Feature
This board features the work of an art historian currently associated with Warnborough. Check here on a monthly basis to see what's new! Maybe next month--the featured art historian will be YOU!
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Issues in Fine Arts
Issues in Fine Arts
This board is a venue for issues, questions, comments and items of interest with respect to Fine Arts. You should also check the NEWS section under ARTICLES.
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Issues in Art History
Issues in Art History
This board is a venue for issues, questions, comments and items of interest with respect to Art History. You should also check the NEWS section under ARTICLES.
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Art of Antiquity
Art of Antiquity
Broadly, this refers to the art of ancient times--and includes Buddhist art,Egyptian art, Etruscan art, Greek art, Hindu art, Islamic art, Prehistoric art, Roman art, and other ancient traditions.
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Art of the Middle Ages
Medieval Art
This refers to the art produced during the period in European history between the collapse of Rome and the Renaissance, c. 476 CE to c. 1450.
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Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art
A revival or rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly in Italy, but also in Germany and other European countries. The period was characterized by a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art, literature and philosophy, and included an emphasis on human beings and their role in the world (humanism).
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Mannerism
Mannerism
A 16th century movement that challenged the harmony, peace and balance associated with High Renaissance standards, through works typified by extreme emotion, exaggerated color, and formal distortion.
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Baroque Art
The Baroque
17th century art style or movement of the Counter-Reformation, primarily found in Catholic countries. Baroque artists sought emotion, movement, and variety in their works--producing works of grandeur.
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Rococo, Neoclassicism and Romanticism
18th Century Movements
The art of the 18th century can be closely linked to the cultural and political environments in which it was created. The Rococo celebrated the elegant, carefree lifestyles of the elite, while Neoclassicism developed largely to inspire interest in and support of the causes of the French Revolution. Romanticism focused on untamed nature, largely as metaphors for human experience.
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Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Other 19th Century Movements
Pre-modern Movements
The movements of the 19th century helped to open the door to the Modern period--with their focus on non-conventional subjects and technique and approach as subject matter.
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Modern Art
Modern Movements
Modernism generally refers to art characterized by the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression, techniques and materials that distinguish many styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Postmodern Art
Postmodernism
Art that reacts against earlier modernist principles, by reintroducing traditional and/or classical elements of style and/or by carrying modernist practices to extremes. Postmodern art also considers and engages the viewer.
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Art of Latin America
Latin American Art
Latin American Art generally refers to artistic traditions that developed in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in 1492 and 1500, respectively, and continuing to the present.
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Graphic Arts
Graphic Arts
Graphic Arts generally includes visual arts that are linear in character, such as drawing and engraving, and other forms of printmaking, such as lithography and serigraphy.
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Arts Education
Short Courses and Workshops
Information about short courses, workshops and seminars on Fine Art and Cultural Art History.
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