Photography is so much a part of life today that the average person in the United States may encounter more than 1000 camera images a day.

American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized form and color within a nonrepresentational framework. Jackson Pollock initiated the revolutionary technique of splattering the paint directly on canvas to achieve the subconscious interpretation of the artist's inner vision of reality.

The Renaissance, a period of remarkable achievements in European culture, begins in Italy.