Tag: art and design
Gutai Art Movement – Japan’s post-war avant-garde explained
Explore the Gutai Movement: Japans postwar avant-garde where action, materiality and performance broke tradition and redefined art.
Guerrilla Girls – feminist art collective and their legacy
Guerrilla Girls: feminist art activists exposing sexism and racism in the art world with bold, witty campaigns that demand equality.
Pop Art: Celebrating the Everyday
Explore Pop Art’s bold take on everyday life and consumer culture, from adverts to icons, with Warhol and Lichtenstein redefining modern art.
AFRICOBRA – Black art, power and visual liberation
Explore AfriCOBRA, the 1968 Chicago collective defining a Black aesthetic in American art with vibrant colours, cultural pride, and community activism.
Sound Art – Sound at the Center
Discover sound art’s role in contemporary art—its history, defining principles and landmark installations that transform space, listening and perception.
Psychedelic Art: A Kaleidoscopic Journey
Explore psychedelic art from 1960s counterculture to today—vivid colours, concert posters, and visionary artists reshaping culture and consciousness.
Dada – the art movement that declared war on sense
Dada Art & Anti-Art: from Cabaret Voltaire to Duchamps readymades - how a movement reshaped culture, activism, design and AI art.
Hurufiyya – Arab art movement that transformed calligraphy
Explore Hurufiyya: Arabic letters reshape modern Arab art, fusing heritage and modernity - from Al Said to Boullata and Mahdaoui.
Ecological art – how artists are responding to climate crisis
Explore ecological art from the 1960s to now, where art, science and activism unite to drive climate action and community resilience.
Colour Field painting – emotion, abstraction and open canvas
Explore Colour Field Painting from Abstract Expressionism to today: Rothko, Newman, Frankenthaler and the power of immersive colour.
Blobism – the architecture movement that rejected straight lines
Discover Blobism: how digital design unleashed fluid, organic architecture, from Selfridges to Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Centre.
Hyperrealism in art – paintings that look like photographs
Explore hyperrealism’s leap beyond photorealism: ultra-detailed works, leading artists, and how this genre challenges perception.
Feminist art movement – women artists who changed the canon
Explore the Feminist Art movement - from Judy Chicago to Guerrilla Girls - rewriting art history, identity and power through activism.
The Vision of the Art House Movement
From Fellini to Parasite: how Art House cinema’s bold, auteur visions moved from indie margins to mainstream acclaim.
Funk art movement – California’s joyful rebellion in art
Explore Funk Art’s eccentric, irreverent, handmade ethos - from 1960s West Coast roots to Arneson and Voulkos - gritty, political and darkly funny.
Surrealism – dreams, the unconscious and art’s liberation
Discover Surrealism’s legacy - from Dalí’s dreamscapes to the puzzles of Magritte - and its lasting impact on modern art and imagination.
Brutalism: A New Visual Language
Explore Brutalism: post-war concrete architecture prioritising functionality, social utility and a sustainable future.
Bauhaus Movement – design revolution from Weimar to today
Explore the Bauhaus revolution: Gropius to Breuer, modern design that unites art, craft and function, shaping architecture and ideas today.
Minimalism Movement – art, design and the power of less
Explore Minimalism’s impact on art, design, architecture and music - Judd, Martin, Stella - simplicity, space and direct experience in focus.
