Atlas Trail
Breaking the Rules: Five Revolutions in Western Art
A curated path through five moments when a work refused the conventions of its own time, from the calm mastery of the Renaissance through the shock of Dada.
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The Renaissance ideal: technical mastery in service of an enigmatic, humane presence.
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Romanticism turns from calm ideal to raw political passion.
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Impressionism breaks the finished surface into visible, fleeting brushwork.
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Cubism fractures the picture plane to register the shock of modern war.
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Surrealism abandons waking logic for the logic of dreams.
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Dada asks whether an ordinary object, simply chosen, can be art at all.
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