ONE of the largest paintings of modern times was the gigantic mural done by the late Raoul Dufy for the pavilion of electricity at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris. The finished work ...
So when computers started to become an everyday reality in the 1950s, artists were there, straining at the leash to see how this new technology could be used for art, for beauty. This huge ...
It tells the broadly chronological story of electronic art from the 1950s (Atsuko Tanaka’s brilliant and potentially lethal 1956 Electric Dress was a response to the newly electrified cityscape ...
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet at London’s Tate Modern, showcases more than 150 artworks produced between 1950 and the 1990s and examines how rapidly advancing ...