Art & Design Styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Alvar Aalto (18981976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he desi...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. Wit...

At the age of six, Salvador Dalí (19041989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. Since then, he later said, my ambit...

At the age of six, Salvador Dalí (19041989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. Since then, he later said, my ambit...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

At the age of six, Salvador Dalí (19041989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. Since then, he later said, my ambit...

Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hunde...

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption this is not a pipe, René Magritte (18981967) created an ech...

A lover of light: in 1912, a French critic used these words to describe the great Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, who had close ties to the Fr...

By 1920, Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe. Unbridled urban expansion ha...

Paul Klee experienced his 1914 trip to Tunisia as a major breakthrough for his art: Color and I are one, he famously wrote. I am a painter. Kandins...

The first comprehensive treatment in seventy years of the American Art-Unions remarkable rise and fall For over a decade, the New Yorkbased America...

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 examines Paris as a center of international culture that attracted artists from Western ...

Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Archit...

Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leadi...

Luis Barragán (19021985) was a preeminent Mexican architect known for spare formulations and documentation of his design ideas. He was born in Guad...

The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred pain...

Richard Neutra (18921970), an iconic figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, is particularly well known for his glamorous California house...