Towards the end of the nineteenth-century changes in the temperament of the social structure, and economic character of Europe caused artists to abandon previously held art-making conventions and instead seek to interpret the world in new and revolutionary means. \'More of an attitude than a specifi...

The art of the Cuban culture goes back to prehistoric times when the first traces were found in caves. This type of art was later labeled as \"folk art\" because of its nature and craftsmanship. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the island was full of poverty and not much art streamed out. Painter...

Cubism is a form of art that was created, mainly, by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The style emphasizes a flat, two-dimensional plane, contradictory to the techniques of perspective and foreshortening. The main distinguishing characteristic between cubism and oth...

Paul Cezanne: Impressionist of LifeART 293(306) Mr. StevensonCynthia WintersJanuary 20, 2004Paul Cezanne, although misunderstood as an artist, definitely made a huge impact upon the art world. With his use of true to life hues and tones, Cezanne brought out his own view of the world. He ...

Art before the twentieth century was recognized as an imitation of nature. Paintings and portraits were made to look as realistic and three-dimensional as possible, as if we are looking at the real object. The first cubist works were those in which objects, landscapes, and people are represented as...

 Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. He was born to a middle-class family and he spent much of his time in his family\'s summer home in Cadaques, the place where his first studio was built. From early on, Dali was considered a child prodigy and he began painting before th...