Founded in Paris, in 1931, the goal of group Abstraction-Création was to reunite myriad artists of diverse origins, who advocated abstract art and were determined to promote it. At the time, almost all artists who were fervent supporters of this form of art, considered marginal, belonged to the association.

Despite its brief existence, [Read more]

To take part in the pictorial revolution of the turn of the 20th Century, the followers of Cubist painting, the most famous of whom were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Francis Picabia, proposed an art in which objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in abstracted form, devoid any coherent sense of depth.

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Drawing its origins from abstract expressionism, geometrical abstraction appeared in the wake of constructivism during the 20th Century and represented a certain form of opposition to surrealism, with at the head of the movement painters Kazimir Malevitch, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.

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Born in 1912 in Wyoming, the American painter Paul Jackson Pollock struggled his whole life against alcoholism, and art soon became a way for him chase away his devils.

He studied painting and sculpture in several art schools in Los Angeles then in New York as of the mid-20's. He later discovered the art of the Amerindians and became [Read more]

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat developed an interest for drawing as a boy. Later, as an adolescent, he began making graffiti with Al Diaz, notably in the New York subway.

In the early 80s, graffiti entered the artistic milieu following the "New York - New Wave Exhibit" of which they were the stars. Basquiat quickly [Read more]

Painting is one the richest forms of art and a vibrant witness of the past, a way of leaving one's trace over the span of time. Its evolution over the course of the centuries is impossible to describe in just a few words, due to its sheer dimension, longevity, and diversity.

However, it is possible to assert that the term [Read more]