Art Movements

The Art of French and British Romanticism By Judith Brown, Serena Kovalosky and Cathy Locke “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey,” by Paul Delaroche, 1833, Collection of the National Gallery in...

Modernism—Some Left-Out Narratives by Kalpana Sahni Just as a man sees an elephant pass by before his very eyes but doubts its existence, then, noticing its footprints, ceases to doubt. ...

The Birth of the Russian Avante-Garde by Cathy Locke   Natan Altman (1889-1970) “Lady by a Piano” 1913, oil on canvas Considered the first group of the Russian avante-garde, the Jack...

Mothers, Disasters and Eye Balls by Cathy Locke Art movements in Russia made a dramatic shift with Stalin’s death in 1953, marking the end of Soviet Realism and the beginning...

The Beehive: Creating a Communist Utopia by Cathy Locke Book cover for the architecture department at VKhUTEMAS, by El Lissitzky, 1927   At the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in...

The Austere Style by Cathy Locke Viktor Popkov, “The Builders of the Bratsk Hydrolectric Power Station,” 1960, oil on canvas The austere style was the Russian art movement that followed...