

Spotlight Artist: Paul Rand and the Corporate takeover of American Modernism
The stylistic influences of Modernism and The International Style on American graphic designers may have originated in the avant garde...
Spotlight Artist: Russian Constructivism- El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, and Tatlin
Synopsis Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century. It evolved just...


Spotlight Artist: Modernism: International Typographic Style or Swiss Style
Josef Muller-Brockmann Summary: Emerging from the modernist and constructivist ideals, the Swiss Style can be defined as an authentic...

Spotlight Artist: Martin Puryear (b. 1941)
From VMFA: "Puryear’s abstract sculptures, while often simple in shape and materials, are richly allusive. This combination of qualities...


Spotlight Artist: Futurism- F.T. Marinetti
The whole idea was to take the entire known world—its ideas, its institutions, its buildings—tear them apart, and rebuild another one in...


Spotlight Artist: Dada Movement - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
FIRST: watch the video below. Along with the "criteria for art" that you considered with AS #14, consider now the "purposes for art" as...


Spotlight Artist: Alphonse Mucha - Art Nouveau Movement
Czech painter Alphonse Mucha leapt to fame in Paris in 1895 when his poster Gismonda (1894) for the superstar Sarah Bernhardt heralded...


Spotlight Artist: William Morris - Arts & Crafts Movement
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist....


Spotlight Artist: Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello (Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian...

Spotlight Artist: Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. His introduction of...