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54% off (Sale price $158.00, Reg. Price $350.00) :: Choose from Five Options $158 for a two-hour childrens art party for up to 10 ($350 value) $288 for a two-hour childrens art party for up to 20 ($700 value) $271 for a two-hour casual adult art party for up to 10 ($600 value) $510 for a two-hour casual adult art party for up to 20 ($1,200 value) $792 for a two-hour formal adult art party for up to 20 ($2,000 value) The instructor provides refreshments for children and adults attending a formal art parties. During casual adult art parties, participants may bring their own food and drinks. The formal adult art parties include wine and champagne, chocolate-covered fruit, and assorted cheeses—all of which are served by a butler. Modernism: The Art of TurmoilWhen you’re choosing what to paint, your palette of possibilities may include works inspired by modernism. Explore the history of this rule-breaking movement with Groupon’s guide to modernism.Picasso’s angular, impudent ladies of Avignon; Duchamp’s time-lapse portrait of a naked trip downstairs; Mondrian’s serene grids; Pollock’s tangled paint splatters. These works have little in common visually, but the electric current running through each is the modernist tradition. At the turn of the 20th century, the world was in upheaval. Advances in communication, travel, and industrial technologies, economic unrest and inequality, and the increasing mechanization of global warfare contributed to a crisis of faith in the traditions that had seemed to bind much of Europe. In this climate, critical thinkers began to tug on the threads that held familiar artistic forms together to see what happened as they unraveled. Drawing upon roots set down by the art nouveau and impressionist movements, artists across Europe rejected the search for meaning through realism, instead relying on an “art for art’s sake” approach to their work, which was often abstract, shocking, and even deliberately grotesque. Soon, modernism would cross the Atlantic, hitting New York City at the Armory Show of 1913. Paintings by notable Americans such
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