What characterises Impressionism for most people nowadays, is both the subject matter and the technique. Landscapes, and scenes from modern urban and suburban life painted in bright, pure colours are ...

And something similar happened with Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. With similar names, but a slight detour on the theme, these two became superhit art styles and produced many masterpieces.

In relation to contemporary art museums, the date of origin for the term ‘contemporary art’ varies. The Institute of Contemporary Art in London, founded in 1947, champions art from that year onwards.

Their work incorporates visible brushstrokes of bright colours, an emphasis on the light in its changing qualities and contemporary subjects. Works were on small-scale canvases, and were mainly ...

Thomas Lange is a contemporary painter based in Poland. In his paintings, he combines cubism, colorism, and cloisonnism. Lange was captivated by the colorism of Fauvist, Henri Matisse, and Paul ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious symbolism ...

As Elena Mashajeva-Agraphiotis continues to explore and expand the boundaries of contemporary impressionism, her work remains a profound testament to the beauty and complexity of nature, rendered ...

More than one involves a video work featuring music, the medium that remains the best trigger. But some people claim to get ...

Neo-impressionism is characterised by the use of the divisionist technique (often popularly but incorrectly called pointillism, a term Paul Signac repudiated). Divisionism attempted to put ...

The three major houses are playing it safe, focusing on blue-chip names and leaving less space for discoveries on the ...