Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

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For the average viewer, there are unwritten rules about art. Art is only art when it is in a museum, when it is centuries old, or when it is realism crafted by a technical master. When modern artwork ...

What is the difference between modern design and contemporary design? At face value, they seem to refer to the same thing — linguistically, they are synonyms of one another. However, in reference to ...

“Contemporary design came out after the midcentury-modern movement,” Sander says. Starting in the 1970s, the style was first seen as more of an amalgamation of various popular aesthetics of the time, ...

Many people argue that painting is the pinnacle of visual art. Slapping paint on a wall or canvas is what this is all about. Painters use a wide variety of hues and brush types to convey their ...

A new curatorial team has taken over the reins at the Cafesjian Art Trust in Shoreview. Jill Ahlberg Yohe, a former longtime curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is the CAT’s curator of modern ...