20th Century Art

Attending Glasgow Art School part-time, CRM both developed his genius and encountered his lifelong collaborators, the 'Spooks', sisters Frances and Margaret MacDonald.

Dec 6, 2009 - Valerie Williamson

Through the artistic dialogue between two artistic giants a new artistic style - Cubism was born. It would revolutionize the way the public thought about visual art

Dec 6, 2009 - Phillip Burghgraef

The Mackintosh Building, arguably the best working art school space ever made, is now refurbished with a Mackintosh archive, chair museum and improved shopping facilities

Nov 11, 2009 - Valerie Williamson

Students of Mexican and Latin-American art will find beautiful reproductions and informative essays in this 1993 compendium.

Nov 5, 2009 - Scott Fogdall

Chicago's 'The Dinner Party' is one of the most important works of art in terms of feminist art history and a controversial piece of the 20th century American Art.

Aug 15, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Feminist art history reveals how avant-garde, whose objective was to challenge the academic canon, applied exclusively to male artists.

Aug 15, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

The process of abstracting of forms found its extreme in Constructivism, the avant-garde art movement of the post-revolutionary Russian and later Soviet era.

Aug 13, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Akin to the Abstract Expressionists, the Indian Space painters were an informal group of New York artists sharing a common attraction to Native American form invention.

Aug 2, 2009 - Scott Fogdall

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West offers a striking example of the architect's theory of organic architecture applied to the stark but beautiful southwest desert.

Jul 2, 2009 - Jeanne Lombardo

The story of Taliesin West is one of salvation, rebirth and love. Here, the aging architect regenerated his personal and professional life from the ashes of disaster.

May 29, 2009 - Jeanne Lombardo

A biography and overview of work of Josef Lada: a painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and writer who created the most beloved illustrated characters of Czech literature.

May 11, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

On July 8, 1917, Canadian artist Tom Thomson paddled away for an afternoon of fishing on Canoe Lake. A few hours later, his empty canoe showed up near the dock.

May 1, 2009 - Terry McNamee

In bringing art to the masses, the Russian Constructivists created a blueprint that has continued with Andy Warhol, Nike and Franz Ferdinand.

Apr 7, 2009 - Melissa Mostyn

For their first exhibition, the Constructivists aimed to reveal painting as a pointless and self-indulgent exercise - and created a legacy.

Apr 3, 2009 - Melissa Mostyn

Like many 20th century art movements, Constructivism grew out of a time of great change, and artist Aleksandr Rodchenko contributed to the revolution.

Apr 2, 2009 - Melissa Mostyn

French contemporary artist Yves Klein was so obsessed with the dry ultramarine pigment that the binding agent he invented for it is now synonymous with his work.

Mar 24, 2009 - Melissa Mostyn

Red adds boldness and intrigue in "Tauromachie" by Andre Masson, "Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones" by Henri Matisse, and "The Lie" by Felix Vallotton.

Mar 16, 2009 - Suzanne Hill

Weeping Woman with Handkerchief by Pablo Picasso is a depiction of despair and pain. The woman represents the painful realities in the world.

Mar 13, 2009 - Gwendolyn Cuizon

A brief history on the advent of Cubism, and how Picasso and fellow artists inspired a revolution in modern art during the course of two World Wars.

Mar 11, 2009 - Marc Zeale

Italian artist Umberto Boccioni was a key figure in European art. His work marked a dramatic departure from traditional forms.

Mar 3, 2009 - Victoria Robinson

A discussion of how Matisse and his contemporaries introduced modern art concepts in France, and how Fauvism evolved during its short life span between 1905 and 1907.

Feb 27, 2009 - Marc Zeale

Martin Benka (1888-1971) Laid the Foundations of Modernist 20th Century Slovakian Painting.

Feb 22, 2009 - Zuzana Minarikova

Katarzyna Kozyra was responsible for a media backlash in Poland and a re-appraisal of women's roles in the country

Jan 27, 2009 - Paul Black

A pioneer of feminist art and prominent figure of the downtown New York art scene, Hannah Wilke worked in media including sculpture, photography and performance art.

Jan 21, 2009 - Shona Black

French photographer and writer Claude Cahun (1894 - 1954) was a pioneer of photographic portraiture and one of the most significant artists of the surrealist movement.

Nov 30, 2008 - Zuzana Minarikova