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"Iconic, yes. He is one of the defining artists of the surrealist movement."
"Fauvist paintings have vibrant and intense colors."
"None of those people are going anywhere anytime soon, but this ragtag movement of nuvo reached crypto nerds and amateur art enthusiasts has already laid siege to the art world and broken up their cultural monopoly."
"Street art was a feature of urban landscapes across the planet and had become the most significant art movement of the 21st century."
"Vaporwave is both a self-referential joke no one is meant to take seriously and an attempt to wrestle with some very real modern anxieties."
"I think we're on the verge of another 2D renaissance just like we had in the 90s."
"Degas' art is about true movement, about awkward twisting and ungainly leaning."
"All it takes for an art movement to be a thing as a whole bunch of people need to do it and collect it be excited about it."
"Fluxus rejected the status quo, upsetting norms."
"One of the aims of the arts and crafts movement was to remove the boundaries between high and low art."
"Pizarro was the glue that held impressionism together."
"What movement did Andy Warhol subscribe to that produced cheap funny brightly colored art for the masses? Pop art."
"When she made it to New York, she became very plugged into the no wave art movement."
"Cubism shows multiple perspectives at the same time on a flat surface."
"Expressionism is the general term for art that captured The Angst of the early 20th century often exploring isolation and loneliness its focus was on the emotional experience rather than the physical reality."
"By 2008, street art was a feature of urban landscapes across the planet and had become the most significant art movement of the 21st Century."
"Cubism had arrived. Brock's landscapes are full of exciting shapes and forms."
"Impressionism challenges our expectations about composition, about ways of seeing, and it gets us to reconsider how we see what we see."
"A Van Gogh painting is never still. For that reason, you know you can see that he's moving from an almost impressionist or neo-impressionist approach to something quite different."
"We're finally moving into an era that we can say is modern, that it is moved away from classical subject matter."
"We are definitely into the realm of modernism."
"It's going to be organized and kind of controlled by the artists who are making this movement happen."
"Impressionism was a revolutionary movement in European art."
"Arte Povera is reintroducing a dynamic relationship with nature, bringing nature back into the world."
"Impressionism changed everything."
"Surrealism at its fundamental level questions the status quo of the world and challenges the notions of reality."
"The PRB painters felt that art needed to be revitalized."
"Cubism is a movement that unfolds over the first latter half of the first decade into the second decade of the 20th century."
"The Baroque was the first truly international art movement."
"Impressionism initiated the greatest change in art since the Renaissance."
"The Cubists, whichever current they belong to, appear to everyone concerned about the future of art to be the most serious and the most interesting artists of our time."
"Avant-garde is a product of and a reaction to the cultural zeitgeist."
"A new artistic movement is born all over Europe; it is a secession from the present."
"The shift from the Victorian aesthetic to the Art Nouveau aesthetic was dramatic and fast, but the shift from Art Nouveau to Art Deco was even more dramatic and even faster."
"Out of those cliches comes an opportunity for Outsider Art, a voice for the voiceless, you might say."
"Gentile is one of the great artists of what we today know as the International Gothic."
"The message of Impressionism was you could do more with less."
"To understand Die Brücke, you have to understand where Germany was at the beginning of the 20th century."
"Impressionism is happening right there."
"He's a major part of Art Informel, as we would say."
"Art is sweeping the nation...from Brooklyn to Hollywood."
"Art Nouveau was really this movement that was created by artists who wanted to inject creativity and handcraftedness back into art and design."
"Surrealism asserts our complete non-conformity."
"Mannerism is typified by this experimentation."
"The story of the American quilt trail is the story of one of the fastest growing grass roots public arts movements in the US and Canada."
"Impressionism, wow, impressionism is the correct answer."
"I love the movement of the shapes."
"The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, tasked with resuscitating artistic purity for the modern age."
"Represents the essential spirit of impressionism."
"Dadaism soon gave way to the more durable Surrealist movement."
"He's considered the progenitor of Abstract Expressionism because of what he did with paint itself."