Atlas Trail
From Delacroix to Pollock: Six Movements and Their Makers
A chronological walk through six movements this wave deepened, Romanticism through Abstract Expressionism, each paired with the artist whose own work carries it: a corrected visual-art strand, a name-giving painting, a poster style, a credit dispute, a school that crossed continents, and a Cold War reading of a movement's rise.
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The movement itself: this wave corrected its description to cover the visual-art strand it had previously omitted.
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The corrected strand's own painter: Liberty Leading the People carries Romanticism's political imagery in paint, beside its long-recognized Beethoven.
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The movement named by a critic's dismissal of one painting.
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Painted Impression, Sunrise in 1874, the work that gave Impressionism its name.
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A decorative style flourishing 1890 to 1910, newly minted this wave.
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Artists
Its poster style is exemplified by Mucha's Job advertisement.
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A movement whose true co-founder is the subject of a documented historiographic dispute.
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Artists
His 1908 L'Estaque landscapes and 1912 papier colle are cited against the popular framing that credits Picasso alone.
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A design school open only 1919 to 1933, whose influence crossed two continents.
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Founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919.
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A movement whose founder policed its own membership by staged "trial."
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Expelled in 1934 for refusing to denounce fascism and embracing commercial work, yet the artist most associated with the movement's name ever since.
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A movement whose international rise carries a documented Cold War cultural-diplomacy dissent.
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Artists
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) exemplifies the drip technique at the center of that rise.
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