Derived from the French verb coller, meaning “to glue,” collage refers to both the technique and the resulting work of art in which fragments of paper and other materials are arranged and glued or otherwise affixed to a supporting surface. The development of collage techniques in the 20th century is associated with the names of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris. The term "collage" itself was first applied to the works of Dadaists and Surrealists. Later it was also used in relation to other arts: literature, music, cinema, etc.

René Magritte is one of the brightest representatives of surrealism. He was a researcher, an art thinker and an image philosopher. His paintings are puzzles that explore the relationship between objects.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Rachel Papo has spent her life in two countries, the US and Israel. Having been shooting since her teenage years, Rachel picked photography to meet her career ambitions and tell other people’s stories. Whether serving in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer or visiting a renowned Russian ballet school, the photographer always knows what to focus on to create an enthralling narrative that would be rather close to life.

Architectural photography is considered, if not endangered, then disappearing  a type of photographic art: after all, it is much easier to photograph buildings than people. But the simplicity of architectural photography is imaginary. Millions of amateur photographs are able to perfectly convey the appearance of an object, to create a photocopy of it, but in fact this is not a step forward, but backward.

Above all, it is worth starting to determine what the avant-garde is, despite the fact that the direction is extremely popular nowadays, it appeared about 100 years ago at the beginning of the last 20th century. At that time, all old ideas seemed to be exhaustive, while the familiar art form reflected the artist's intuition already seemed irrelevant, so artists were looking for new ways of self-realisation and began to reject the traditional form of art.  The origins of the avant-garde are the works of Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gauguin, the greatest masters of post-Impressionism, who have formed the basis of the avant-garde movement.

The world of art has no borders, prejudices and stereotypes. Art can be in any form, period of time and expressions. In this article “Contemporary Art in Focus Part 3: late 20th” are presented the next five Contemporary Art movements of the late 20th century, more precisely, such as Sots Art, Graffiti, Postmodern Art, Metamodernism and The New Aesthetics. 

Nude is an artistic genre in sculpture, painting, photography and cinematography, depicting the beauty and aesthetics of the naked human body. Although the nude human body can be highly sexual when photographed, nude body photography in the visual arts tends to actually reduce sexuality to a minimum. Generally, the aim is simply a celebration of art, light and form.

Surrealism is a trend in modern painting, literature, cinema and photography, which was born in France in the 1920s. At the heart of the direction are allusions and paradoxes. Surrealists are working on imagination and fantasy, dreams and ideas, without admitting any limits. The artist's ideas are bravely transferred to the artwork. The originator of surrealism is the writer and poet Andre Breton, who authored the first manifesto of surrealism.