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What about the other art movements post 1933?



Art movements are really just a cataloging technique. The movements can be named by dealers trying to develop a market, artists trying to articulate camaraderie, art historians retroactively categorizing what they think happened.

They are all employed to promote and communicate. I'm more interested human artifact creation.

I find it's more interesting to ignore movements and focus on the artifacts. All the terms are just ways to be articulate.

Here is a cheat sheet on Greek and Roman columns. The image is from the general wikipedia page on Columns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column#/media/File:Schema_Saeu...

Thinking about it in those terms it makes it seem really silly to think there are that many types of paintings or art post 1933.

The only reason to know the names of movements is to try to articulate a thought with extreme clarity.

This makes Art History a cut throat business. The industry is built entirely on bike shedding.




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