Valerie Thomas was an American scientist and inventor. In 1980, she created the illusion transmitter which allows 2-dimensional images to be observed as if they were 3-dimensional. Not only did the transmitter lead to the invention of 3D movies, but the technology is still used at NASA today! Thomas was …
Rising in popularity in the 1980s, Feminist art wanted to invoke more emotions and bring forward a standard message more than any art form to come before them. This movement was about women expressing themselves as equal to men through art for the first time. In what is known as …
Minimalism is an extreme form of abstract art developed in the USA in the 1960s and typified by artworks composed of simple geometric shapes based on the square and the rectangle. With minimalism, no attempt is made to represent an outside reality; the artist wants the viewer to respond only …
Emerging in the 1950s, Pop art served as a break away from previous movements. Artists in the Pop Art movement felt that Abstract Expressionist art was alienating (dividing) the audience and wanted to use their art to communicate more effectively with the viewer. Pop art was supposed to turn against …
Minimalism is all about simplicity! Try using simple shapes and forms to create your own minimalist masterpiece! Click here to download the PDF Click here for a full list of handouts
Ads are everywhere in our daily lives! From in-between tv shows to billboards on the street, they are the most common way to promote a product. We may not always recognize this form of marketing as art, but a creative advertisement sticks in consumers’ minds. Can you think of any …
Abstract Painting, Public Domain (CC0) , via Rawpixel Video: Abstract Expressionism Growing from Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism combines the emotional intensity of expressionism with the abstract European forms of art like Cubism, Futurism, and Bauhaus. The term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning …
See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Cropped) Video: Dada An art movement coming from the avant-garde European art scene in the early ’20s, Dadaism was developed as a reaction to WWI, and during this time the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the word was becoming more and …
