Art History

Journey through the evolution of visual arts from ancient civilizations to contemporary movements. Our expert-written articles explore how art reflects and shapes human culture, from Renaissance masterpieces to modern innovations. Learn about influential artists, historical contexts, and the techniques that defined each era. Discover how social, political, and technological changes influenced artistic expression throughout history.

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194 articles in Art History

Encaustic Painting: Wax, Heat, and Ancient Technique

Art Techniques

9 min read·February 27, 2026

Encaustic Painting: Wax, Heat, and Ancient Technique

Discover encaustic painting, the ancient wax-based medium used in Fayum mummy portraits and revived by Jasper Johns. Learn how molten pigmented wax creates luminous, layered surfaces unlike any other painting medium.

Collage as Art: From Cubist Newspapers to Hannah Höch

Art Techniques

10 min read·February 27, 2026

Collage as Art: From Cubist Newspapers to Hannah Höch

Trace the history of collage from Picasso and Braque's Cubist papier collé to Hannah Höch's Dada photomontages and Matisse's paper cutouts. Learn how collage became a serious art form and how to use it yourself.

Conceptual Art: When the Idea Is the Artwork

Art History

11 min read·February 24, 2026

Conceptual Art: When the Idea Is the Artwork

Explore Conceptual Art and how artists from Duchamp to Kosuth, LeWitt, and Yoko Ono made the idea the primary vehicle of art. Discover why this movement challenged every assumption about what art is and what it needs to be.

Art History

10 min read·February 24, 2026

Social Realism: Art as Political Weapon

Explore Social Realism and how artists like Dorothea Lange, Diego Rivera, and Grant Wood used their work to document poverty, champion the working class, and challenge political power. Art at its most urgent and its most human.

Art Nouveau: Nature, Ornament, and the Total Work of Art

Art History

10 min read·February 23, 2026

Art Nouveau: Nature, Ornament, and the Total Work of Art

Discover Art Nouveau, the late 19th-century movement that wove organic forms, flowing lines, and decorative beauty into everything from architecture to posters. From Alphonse Mucha to Victor Horta, explore art that refused to separate the beautiful from the everyday.

Arte Povera: Italian Art Made from Worthless Materials

Art History

10 min read·February 23, 2026

Arte Povera: Italian Art Made from Worthless Materials

Discover Arte Povera, the Italian art movement that used coal, earth, straw, vegetables, and fire to challenge consumer culture and the art market. From Kounellis to Pistoletto and Merz, explore why "poor art" changed everything.

Futurism: Speed, Machines, and the Art of Chaos

Art History

11 min read·February 22, 2026

Futurism: Speed, Machines, and the Art of Chaos

Explore Italian Futurism and its obsession with speed, machines, violence, and the thrill of modern life. From Boccioni to Balla and the Futurist Manifesto, discover the movement that worshipped the future and helped shape it.

The Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty, Medieval Romance, and Victorian Rebellion

Art History

10 min read·February 22, 2026

The Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty, Medieval Romance, and Victorian Rebellion

Discover the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their radical rejection of academic painting. From Millais's Ophelia to Rossetti's luminous women and Holman Hunt's moral paintings, explore Victorian England's most passionate art movement.

Gothic Art and Architecture: Cathedrals, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Sacred Space

Art History

11 min read·February 21, 2026

Gothic Art and Architecture: Cathedrals, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Sacred Space

Explore Gothic art and architecture from the soaring cathedrals of France to the illuminated manuscripts of the medieval scriptorium. Discover what flying buttresses, pointed arches, and stained glass tell us about a world organized around faith.

Expressionism: Munch, Kirchner, and Painting Raw Feeling

Art History

10 min read·February 21, 2026

Expressionism: Munch, Kirchner, and Painting Raw Feeling

Discover how Expressionism used distortion, intense color, and emotional urgency to paint inner experience rather than outer appearance. From Edvard Munch to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Die Brücke, and beyond.

Minimalism: When Less Became the Whole Point

Art History

10 min read·February 20, 2026

Minimalism: When Less Became the Whole Point

Explore Minimalism in art and design: how artists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Carl Andre stripped painting and sculpture to their essential forms and made the act of looking itself the subject.

Cubism: Picasso, Braque, and Seeing All Sides at Once

Art History

9 min read·February 20, 2026

Cubism: Picasso, Braque, and Seeing All Sides at Once

Learn how Cubism shattered centuries of single-point perspective and rebuilt reality from fragments. From Picasso and Braque's early experiments to Synthetic Cubism and beyond, this is the movement that made modern art modern.

Romanticism: Emotion, Nature, and the Revolt Against Reason

Art History

11 min read·February 19, 2026

Romanticism: Emotion, Nature, and the Revolt Against Reason

Discover how Romanticism rejected Enlightenment reason and turned to raw emotion, wild nature, and individual experience. From Friedrich to Delacroix and Turner, explore the movement that changed how art feels.

Baroque Art: Drama, Light, and the Power of the Catholic Church

Art History

11 min read·February 19, 2026

Baroque Art: Drama, Light, and the Power of the Catholic Church

Explore how Baroque art used dramatic light, emotional intensity, and sweeping movement to serve the Catholic Church and move ordinary viewers to devotion. From Caravaggio to Rembrandt and Bernini, discover the movement that changed everything.

Auguste Rodin: The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, and Modern Sculpture

Artist Spotlight

10 min read·February 18, 2026

Auguste Rodin: The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, and Modern Sculpture

Explore the life and revolutionary art of Auguste Rodin. From The Thinker to the Gates of Hell, discover how he broke from academic convention and transformed sculpture into an art of raw emotion and unfinished surfaces.

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Art History

Encaustic Painting: Wax, Heat, and Ancient Technique

Collage as Art: From Cubist Newspapers to Hannah Höch

Conceptual Art: When the Idea Is the Artwork

Social Realism: Art as Political Weapon

Art Nouveau: Nature, Ornament, and the Total Work of Art

Arte Povera: Italian Art Made from Worthless Materials

Futurism: Speed, Machines, and the Art of Chaos

The Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty, Medieval Romance, and Victorian Rebellion

Gothic Art and Architecture: Cathedrals, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Sacred Space

Expressionism: Munch, Kirchner, and Painting Raw Feeling

Minimalism: When Less Became the Whole Point

Cubism: Picasso, Braque, and Seeing All Sides at Once

Romanticism: Emotion, Nature, and the Revolt Against Reason

Baroque Art: Drama, Light, and the Power of the Catholic Church

Auguste Rodin: The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, and Modern Sculpture