Modern Art

American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, born in 1887, said "making your unknown known is the important thing." O'Keeffe engaged in the process of painting the mysterious in the exterior landscape so she...

The idea of "art for the people" inspired a public mural movement in Mexico, which spread throughout the United States, Europe and Central and South America. Public murals usually intend to make...

Photoshop is a great tool for any artist. It's a computer program that makes replicating your artwork a piece of cake and a ton of fun! Look at how easily you can create multi-colored versions of...

The Unisphere was the focal point of the 1964 World's Fair. Made of stainless steel aluminum, the grandiose icon has retained its original polish and remains virtually untouched by time and...

Artist Pablo Picasso was the father of many art movements including perhaps his most famous, Cubism. During his Cubist stage, he and fellow artist, Georges Braque created the collage as a natural...

Land Art is a modern art movement that explores the relationships between art and the environment in which it exists. Because most Land Art is outdoors, it evolves as a direct result of nature....

DYI or "do it yourself" projects can be fun and give you a sense of pride and accomplishment. If poorly planned, DYI project can be a major headache not including any extra money you may...

Caricatures are drawings of people that have been stylized and manipulated to emphasize specific prominent features of that person. For example, caricatures of Barack Obama often emphasize his...

President Georges Pompidou of France had the idea in 1969 to have a center of modern arts in Paris, and he chose the Beaubourg neighborhood for its location in an attempt to revitalize it. The...

Postmodernism is an artistic and academic movement that emerged during the 1960s and '70s as a successor to Modernism. Postmodernism rejects many of the fundamental assumptions of Western...

Salvador Dali is considered to be one of the most influential modern artists. In addition to using pre-existing methods of applying paint to canvas, Dali also used some methods of his own...

You may have seen some evocative abstract paintings at your local art museum or art gallery. Most likely, they were completed on a large canvas and had a nice frame that outlined the painting....

In a design sense, the concept of modernism was propelled forward by architects such as Le Corbusier, Aalvar Alto and Frank Lloyd Wright. Modernism had its first major appearance in architecture...

Color theory has given artists insight into their craft for centuries. During the Renaissance and throughout 17th and 18th century, the fundamentals of color theory helped artists skillfully...

One way to make your photographs more interesting is by applying a pop art effect using Photoshop. Andy Warhol is probably the most well-known pop artist. His screen prints of Marilyn Monroe were...

Although computers have only been in use for a small part of the history of graphic design, their utilization has revolutionized the art form, making graphic design and computer graphics almost...

One of the things that are becoming more popular these days is forum signatures on the internet. I know you have seen them from time to time by now, so today I will show you some tricks to make...

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Many people see different things , different ways. No matter how small or big they may look there away something that you see. Just use imagination alit and make become something to enjoy taken...

Instructions Things You'll Need: * Yarn (braided yarn, string, non-fraying cloth such as felt, or strips of thin leather also work well) * Scissors * Needle and thread (hot glue or...

Do you have a pile of old CDs laying around? Many of us have AOL CDs as well as various other promotional CDs, as well as old Burned CDs, and CDs beyond repair. You can make wonderful Mosaic art,...

Ever controversial, Andy Warhol captivated, outraged and influenced the contemporary art scene until the day of his untimely death. The key issues in Warhol's art were his innovative use of...

The Modern Art era began in the 1890s. Even after the rise of Postmodernism in the 1940s, some artists continued to work with Modern styles and ideals. Modern artists experienced freedom to...

Often considered one of the foremost leaders of the collage movement of 20th century art, Kurt Schwitters worked in multiple genres, including dada, constructivism and graphic design. He was also...

Mark Rothko painted in the cusp between the Modern Art era, beginning in the 1890s, and the Postmodern era, which began in the late 1940s. Rothko identified with the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Pablo Picasso fractured perspective and turned portraiture on its head. But while he's best known for expanding the boundaries of modern art, Picasso was also an avid student of the masters of...

As modern artists constantly seek ways to avoid conventional painting "clichés" by using unusual techniques to apply paint to canvas, the art world is flooded with technical painting mediums...

Graphic design is an intellectual as well as a creative process, requiring critical and analytical thinking skills as well as abstraction. Graphic artists are adept at finding appropriate,...

Graphite art involves using special graphite drawing tools, usually in the form of graphite pencils. It is especially suitable for wide range of personal styles in art. Graphite drawing tools help...

Chris Ofili is a modern painter of both British and Nigerian heritage. His works often create controversy because they are created using unconventional materials such as elephant dung. He is a...

Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was a member of the artistic movement known as the Mexican Modernist School, a group of painters who rejected European-styled abstract art in favor of realistic portrayals...

Mark Rothko (1903-70) was a New York abstract expressionist painter and is best known for his Color Field paintings, which are characterized by canvases of solid color rather than recognizable...

Pablo Picasso painted his masterpiece, Guernica, in 1937, six days after the Nazis bombed the ancient Basque city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing essentially devastated the...

Abstract art is a large umbrella under which many kinds of art lay. Here are several kinds of abstract art, along with some key artists in each respective field of the abstract milieu.

Diego Rivera was a celebrated Mexican artist famous for his fresco murals that often depicted scenes from Mexican history or conveyed messages of solidarity with the working man. Rivera's work...

This is a fun thing to do if you have a little child at home. I first tried this with my 2 year old daughter and it was really fun to see what she tried to do.

After so many designs and motif, now I will show you how to make names or some useful word on you bracelet as LOVE, PEACE, ENERGY, CARE or MAKE LOVE NOT WAR ect. Materials and tools you need are...

One of the hallmarks of modern art, beginning with artists like Picasso, was the incorporation of items from real life into art. Robert Rauschenberg was one of the first artists, following in the...

Salvador Dali was an artist most famous for his surrealist paintings. Noted as much for his eccentric behavior and dress as for his artwork, Dali was born in Spain in 1904 and began studying art...

Cubism, the first abstract art form, began in the early 1900s as a response to dynamic changes in the world, such as global modernization, industrialization, the steam revolution and the invention...

In the forties and fifties, artists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Clyfford Still challenged the way we think about art and became some of the first financially successful abstract...

Art historians often divide modern art into categories of figurative/representational and abstract art. Although they are by no means mutually exclusive, figurative art is made with the intention...

Henri Matisse's artwork spanned some of the most exciting periods in art history. Like Picasso, he worked in many different mediums and was one of the first great painters of the 20th century....

Salvador Dali, an early 20th century Spanish artist, is associated with the Surrealist movement, though it had been founded many years before Dali became a popular artist. Surrealism was concerned...

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who introduced bold, new styles of work that changed how Western culture perceives and defines art and beauty in art. Picasso was prolific, working in many...

This is not a tutorial, but it's a list of tips and shortcut for Adobe Photoshop, these are the shortcuts I use all the time and this helped me to get really fast and good in photoshop. Enjoy!

Diego Rivera was an artist famous for his work during the early 20th century. He was born in Mexico, lived in Europe for close to 20 years, then returned to Mexico. His long career as an artist...

Kuler is an Adobe website that many web and graphic designers use for color coordinating. Some people use it to come up with good color combinations at random, but some use it with one or two...

The source of man-made glass is unknown, but we do know that glass art dates back around 3,500 years. Today, glassblowers worldwide use some of the same tools and techniques that were developed...

While touring a local artist's studio I noticed a decorated shelf with candles and incense, art tools and other interesting items. When asked, she explained that a local gallery hosted a show...