Dr. Neil Pyatt, PhD

Dr. Neil Pyatt, PhD is the managing director of LA PARED arte contemporáneo, an independent project that operates an exhibition and residency spaces in Mexico city and a gallery in Pereira, Colombia, that promotes cultural exchange between the two countries. As a writer and researcher, he has been investigating contemporary culture since beginning the classic journalism route at the college newspaper during his undergraduate degree and then on to a master’s in social anthropology at Cambridge. Moving to Mexico in 1996 focused his work on regional contemporary art and its practical impact on politics and people’s lives. A period as a journalist and advertising creative in Oaxaca led to doctoral research through Loughborough University School of the Arts in the UK, which is now available in commercial form as Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca: Hybrid Agency (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). Follow Neil:

Feminist Art Movement – History, Artists and Artwork

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What is Feminist Art? Feminist art is an art movement that emerged from the strength of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The movement challenges men’s dominance in not only art but also society as a whole. It is often solely related to the creation of feminist art theory; however, as a …

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Art Nouveau Art Movement – History, Artists and Artwork

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What is Art Nouveau? Art Nouveau is the name that was later given to what emerged at the very end of the 19th century as an international style of art, architecture and design. Similarities in terms of aesthetics, origin and short duration—ending before the First World War began in 1914—were held by groups of artists, …

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