Though the backbone of art was formed by academics that graduated classical artists, some of the most influential artists broke away from such academies to change the rules. Impressionists, led by Claude Monet, formed a group of artists originally rejected from the academies to paint in their own ...

Painting is one of the most interesting skills to have. Any child can do it, but the important thing in painting is the use of styles. The people who have talents can use styles very successfully and can create new techniques. With the new techniques, primitive art lost the sense and artists found m...

Cubism is one of the first forms of abstract art. Cubism originated in France and was influenced by African sculptures and by Paul Cezanne. The first cubist works were those in which objects, landscapes, and people are represented as many-sided solids. This enables you to see various views of the ob...