History of Art & Design Styles: from c 1900

Adolf Loos (18701933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the countrys architectural ...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic wave...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...

Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (19072012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed ...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (19121956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. C...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18411919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring pu...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (19121956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. C...

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of mod...

Paul Gauguin (18481903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen...

The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine how key moments in art...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (18411919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring pu...

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting ...

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (18931983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, ...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and ma...

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (18931983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, ...