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Aerial view of the Spider (46 meters long) at Nazca Lines, some 435 km south of Lima, Peru on December 11, 2014. Geoglyphs can be seen only from atop the surrounding foothills or from aircrafts. The purpose of the Nazca lines remains unclear, according some scientists the Nazca people created them to be seen by their gods in the sky.

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Nazca Lines

What Are the Nazca Lines? There are three basic types of Nazca Lines: straight lines, geometric designs and pictorial representations. There are more than 800 straight lines on the coastal plain, some of which are 30 miles (48 km) long. Additionally, there are over 300 geometric designs, which include basic shapes such as triangles, rectangles, […]

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A visitor looks at a painting entitled "La persistance de la mémoire" (Persistence of Memory) by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali's during an exhibition devoted to his work at the Centre Pompidou contopary art center (aka Beaubourg) on November 19, 2012 in Paris. More than 30 years after the first retrospective in 1979, the event gathers more than 200 art pieces and runs until March 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO FRANCOIS GUILLOT (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)

Surrealism History

THE BEGINNING OF SURREALISM Surrealism officially began with Dadaist writer André Breton’s 1924 Surrealist manifesto, but the movement formed as early as 1917, inspired by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico, who captured street locations with a hallucinatory quality. After 1917, de Chirico abandoned that style, but his influence reached the Surrealists through German Dadaist […]

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Artists of the New Deal

New Deal Photographers The field of photography benefitted hugely from the New Deal. In the mid-1930s, the Farm Security Administration’s Resettlement Administration hired photographers to document the work done by the agency, which launched the careers of many major photojournalists. From 1937 to 1942 this army of photographers created iconic images defining the New Deal […]

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Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848–1933), A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels, c. 1905, stained glass, 219.7 x 334.1 cm (86.5 x 131.6 in), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.

Art Nouveau and Art Deco History

Arts and Crafts Movement The Arts and Crafts movement, a precursor to Art Nouveau, focused on hand craftsmanship in the decorative arts and was personified by influential textile designer William Morris. In Art Nouveau, the style of an object is not predetermined and imposed but developed organically through the process of creation, an idea derived […]

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The Failed Soviet Rival to the Flapper Dress

The Soviet masses did not respond well to ‘prozodezhda,’ a 1920s experiment that sought to revolutionize dress.

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Will the British Museum Ever Return These Stolen Artifacts?

Countries are calling on the museum to return looted items like the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles and 4,000 bronze sculptures from the Kingdom of Benin.

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Does This 1,500-Year-Old Painting Show What Jesus Looked Like?

A sixth-century image discovered in Israel depicts Jesus with short, curly hair.

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10 Works of Art That Made People Really Mad

These controversial artworks shocked the world.

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1913

Stolen “Mona Lisa” recovered in Florence

Art, Literature and Film History
1901

Van Gogh paintings shown

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1683

World’s first university museum opens in Oxford, England

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1963

“Mona Lisa” exhibited in Washington

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1475

Michelangelo is born

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1793

Louvre Museum opens

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