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Les Nabis Revealed: The 8 Artists Who Redefined Modern Art as We Know It

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Energized to achieve a “beauty beyond visible reality,” the Nabis group of French artists challenged convention to create a new artistic vision, as they harnessed Paul Gauguin’s synthetism to envisage an exciting alternative that would usher in the age of modern art.

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Ocean Liners: Speed and Style

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This exhibition revives the golden age of ocean travel, from ground-breaking engineering and fashionable interiors, to the lifestyle on board and their cultural impact on art, architecture, design and film. With over 250 objects including paintings, sculpture, ship models, fashion, photographs and posters.

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The Essential Guide to Minimalist Art: 10 Artists Who Mastered the Art of Simplicity

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Challenging traditional notions of artistic expression, Minimalism pushed the boundaries of what art can be – and its concentrated form of beauty would leave a lasting legacy. His vocabulary of visual art contained lines with simplified colors and shapes, which are evident in his Wall Structure Blue (1962) and his Wall Drawings.

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Henning Koppel: A Jensen Designer That Made a Modern Splash

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When he returned to Copenhagen in 1945, he took a job with the Jensen workshop at the age of 27. When he was younger, Koppel studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Academie Rancon in Paris, where he concentrated on drawing and sculpture. After a long and prosperous career, he died in 1981 at the age of 63.

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8 Famous Color Field Paintings that Define the Genre

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Famous Color Field Painting Artists Color field painters are the quiet residents in the abstract expressionist neighborhood, especially when compared to the loud action painters of the age, like Jackson Pollock. In the 1990s, he explored Surrealist printmaking with The Fountain , as well as sculpture.

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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans 

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These sculptures, which he called tombstones, featured varied figures from preachers to lions (better image here ) and echoed the modernist minimalism that was beginning to grow in popularity across the art world. Materiality Different examples of American folk art can stand the test of time with varying longevity.

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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans 

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These sculptures, which he called tombstones, featured varied figures from preachers to lions (better image here ) and echoed the modernist minimalism that was beginning to grow in popularity across the art world. Materiality Different examples of American folk art can stand the test of time with varying longevity.