Atlas Trail
From the Salon to the Supermarket: Seven Movements That Rewrote the Rules
A chronological walk through seven art movements, from the pastel intimacy of Rococo in 1715 Paris to the silkscreened soup cans of Pop Art in 1960s New York, each one a direct reaction against the movement before it.
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1715: Rococo answers the death of Louis XIV with lightness, curves and pastel intimacy.
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1750: Neoclassicism answers Rococo excess with the severe line and moral seriousness of antiquity.
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1848: Realism answers idealized antiquity with the unglamorous scale of ordinary provincial life.
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1886: Post-Impressionism answers Impressionist observation with the artist's own subjective vision.
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1909: Futurism answers every museum in Italy with the worship of speed and the machine.
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1915: Constructivism answers the easel painting with the artist as engineer of the revolution.
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1956: Pop Art answers gestural abstraction with the soup can, the comic panel and the silkscreen.
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