Articles related to "European Avant Garde"



Breaking Rules in the Art World
This British Library exhibition explores the 'isms' of Avant Garde, how art and attitudes changed across Europe helped by developments in communications and transport.
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Courtauld Gallery Exhibition – Beyond Bloomsbury
Roger Fry's Omega Workshops created designs by artists such as Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Winifred Gill, Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
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Cirque Calder
Combining sculpture, toys, engineering, whimsy, movement and performance, this miniature circus was a crucible for Calder's ideas and aesthetic, and inspired his mobiles.
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Why Jean-Luc Godard is Important
Godard movies may be familiar to film studies students, but it can be hard to understand exactly why films such as Breathless are so famous and critically esteemed.
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Alexander Calder: Artist Biography
All the rage in the 1950's the mobile is a staple in art class. But this type of sculpture was only invented in the 1930's by an American son of the European avant-garde.
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