Art Terms

DADA

In their rebellion against bourgeois artistic standards, they favored incomprehensible and often shocking artistic procedures: the Dadaists, who questioned the classical concept of art more fundamentally than any movement before them.

READYMADE

Plaything of Dadaism and the Surrealists, icon for Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual Art: the Readymades, inseparable from Marcel Duchamp, revolutionized the concept of art and the understanding of art.

VIDEO ART

Originating as an art form in the early 1960s in Germany and America, it has since advanced to become one of the most influential genres of 20th century art: video art.

POSTMODERNISM

It is to be seen as a countermovement to modernity, which is increasingly perceived as sterile and totalitarian: Postmodernism. A spiritual-cultural movement whose beginnings lie in the second half of the 20th century.

IMPRESSIONISM

An exhibition in Paris in 1874 gave birth to what was probably the most exciting and up to then the newest style in 19th century art: Impressionism.

VENICE BIENNALE

The Biennale has been held in Venice every two years since 1895 and is one of the most important exhibitions of international contemporary art.

POP ART

Whether Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, or Robert Rauschenberg: no other concept of style in the modern art history of the 20th century has shaped our idea of aesthetics, design, and the "American way of life" as decisively as Pop Art.

PHOTOGRAPHY

More than any other visual medium, photography has shaped our perception of the world. It is an omnipresent medium. Against this backdrop, it is surprising that photography is taking up more and more space in the current art scene. Can a mass medium be art?

SURREALISM

The founders of Surrealism did not initially see themselves as representatives of a new art movement, but rather as advocates of a revolutionary worldview in which the unconscious, the paradoxical, and the dreamlike played a primary role.
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