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Migration Series No.1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans
Migration Series No.1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans is a Harlem Renaissance tempera and hardboard painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the The Phillips Collection in the United States. The image is © Estate of Jacob Lawrence / ARS, New York, and used according to educational fair use, and tagged political work. -
Meeting Place
Meeting Place is a Harlem Renaissance oil on canvas painting created by Norman Lewis in 1941. It lives in a private collection. The image is from the Estate of Norman W. Lewis, and used according to educational fair use, and is used as an example of social realism. -
African American and White Soldiers aboard A Ship
African American and White Soldiers aboard A Ship is a gelatin silver print photographic print created by Gordon Parks in 1941. It lives at the Library of Congress in the United States. -
Containment of Russia
Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire, which was the containment of the Soviet Union in the Interbellum period. -
Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
During the early years of the Cold War, the United States developed and fielded a hydrogen bomb in the face of repeated military and political provocations by the Soviet Union. The explosion of a Soviet atomic device in 1949, in fact, gave major impetus to the US hydrogen bomb project. -
Abstract Expressionism
As a complex art movement in the late 1940s, abstract expressionism was the logical continuation of the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstraction and Modernist styles. Even though the Abstract Expressionism movement was mainstream, it could be roughly divided into two major painting sub-genres – Action Painting and Color Field Painting. -
At the Solferino-Paris bridge
At the Solferino-Paris bridge is an oil on canvas painting created by Théo Kerg in 1951. It lives at the MNHA - Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art in Luxembourg. -
Pop Art
With its innovations, the movement is considered as the most significant period defining modern art. Using the images from mass culture and found objects, pop art artists reshaped the face of the painting by introducing a new kind of commercial aesthetics. -
Building of the Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. It divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically contrasting zones. -
Marilyn Diptych
Marilyn Diptych is a Pop Art acrylic and canvas painting created by Andy Warhol in 1962. It lives at the Tate Modern in London. -
Prismatic Lattice
Prismatic Lattice is a De Stijl gouache painting created by Charmion von Wiegand in 1962. It lives at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. -
The Land Art
The link to nature and its importance for the works of various authors dates from the beginning of time. The major development in painting occurred when Impressionism painters took their easels en plein air. But, with the birth of land art, nature was no longer just a setting but it was yet another surface creatives embedded the concerns of formal art making directly into. -
Spiral Jetty
In 1970, with his stone construction Spiral Jetty implanted into a salt lake in Utah, Robert Smithson changed not only the face of art but its relationship to usual exhibition setting and the market -
Broken Circle
Broken Circle is a Post Modernist earth sculpture created by Robert Smithson in 1971. -
Neo-Expressionism
Originating in late 1970s painting by the New Fauves, the style drew inspiration from German Expressionist artists like Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and traditional methods like woodcut, this branch of the art was one of the most important and relevant ones of the art expressions across this decade -
summer olympics boycott
The Boycott of the 1980 Olympics was part of a series of actions initiated by the United States in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. -
Street Art
While some took their expressive strokes to canvas, others—like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring—took them to the streets. The gifted, rebellious son of a Haitian home in Brooklyn, Basquiat devoured images, from the walls of MoMA to the pages of MAD magazine. Establishing himself through the tag of an informal graffiti group named “SAMO ©” throughout downtown Manhattan, he developed an aesthetic charged by dichotomies: primitive and classical, high and low, rich and poor. -
Neo-Pop
Late in the decade, as the economic boom cooled, artists and gallerists began to test the limits of what kinds of art object the market would bear. -
Fall of the berlin wall
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Toyism
With a rather unique theory placed behind it, Toyism was a qazi-movement that originated in the 1990s in Emmen, Netherlands. As one may suppose, the title was coined as to symbolize the playful character of the artworks and the philosophy it represented. -
New Takes on Photography
Photography reached towards immense size and complexity as well as installations. The true highlight of the decade in that regard was the moment Andreas Gursky touched the nerve of postmodern aesthetics by manipulating his vast photographs, often aimed at capturing globalized systems of commerce with digital technology. -
Stuckism
Stuckism was an international movement established in the year of 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson. The duo of artists wanted to promote figurative painting as an opposite and better alternative to conceptual creations.