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This painting presented a clear challenge to the typical academic female nude. The conventional female nude was Classically modelled, with an even, well proportioned, alluring feminine body, of the type t...

This ovular and geometrical construction from Rodchenko focusses solely on the exploitation of materials in space. The sculpture comprises of eleven ovular disks cut from plywood and then painted in dark ...

Turner's loose brushwork creates the impression of speed and movement. The directional brushstrokes consisting of pale white paint, evident for example in the right foreground as the brushstrokes interjec...

My favourite is definitely the British Romanticism of the XIXth century. Turner and the Preraphaelites. However, as a History of Art student I need to have a broader knowledge of the most important moveme...

First I would look at the general function of portraiture in the 15th century which was primarily to memorialize the features of the patron for posterity and to ensure rememberance, as well as to celeb...