EMMA-KATE WILSON

Surrealism was an incredible time for female artists, with many of the traditional methods of art making renounced and experimental practices coming to the surface, they found themselves flipping the male gaze.

After the many years of abstraction, surrealism, ready-made sculpture, and conceptual art, we are slowly seeing a return to realism art almost 200 years since the first emergence of the movement in French society.

Impressionism was a transient time for the changing world of art, beginning in the early 1860s by Claude Monet and other Parisian-based artists. The movement itself altered the way we looked at the world as the definitions between high and low society merged and industrialisation boomed.

Minimalism is about simplicity, reduction and materiality. The artworks from this school of thought attempt an objective approach in representing the literal; geometric forms or industrial materials become about highlighting that particular moment in time and space.