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12/14/2012

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Portrait of Chaim Soutine

 

Amedeo Modigliani, 1915, oil on canvas.

Elegantly linear, stylized and masklike heads with columnar necks and rich color are among the most enchanting potraits in modern history.

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Head


Amedeo Modigliani, 1912, limestone

Embodies a highly personal synthesis of African masks, medieval elongation, and Greek purity and form.

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The Green Violinist

 

Marc Chagall, 1918, oil on canvas

cubist manor modified by personal and emotional color. explored rabbinical figures from memories of russian-jewish village life.

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Piano Lesson

 

Henri Matisse, 1916, oil on cardboard

Culminating, architectonic simplicity. Use of cubism while never forgetting his style of bright color and simplicity

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The Music Lesson


Henri Matisse, 1916-1917, oil on canvas

almost rococo elaboration. balanced cerebral, severe side with sensuous decorative aspects. clear in ornimental curves of the window grille.

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Pink Nude

 

Henri Matisse, 1935, oil on canvas

Related to the blue nude. Worked very hard on it with his series of 22 photographs taken for his study and creation. It is the simpliest of his work.

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Sorrows of the King

 

Henri Matisse, 1952, Goucache on cute-and-pasted paper

Developed in his old age. He described it as cutting into color.

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Guernica**

 

Pablo Picassso, 1937, Oil on canvas

tragic mural. most celebrated of all antifacist art works. commisioned for the spanish pavillion at the paris worlds fair. represents Basque town attacked by German dive bombers.

 

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Vollard Suite No. 63

 

Pablo Picasso, Sculptor and reclining Model by a window viewing a Sculptured Head, from the Sculptor's Studio suite, 1933

able to transmute any period and style of work into his own. he believes all art styles exist at the same time.

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Portrait of a Painter, after El Greco

 

 Pablo Picasso, 1937, oil on canvas

changed his manor of style often. compared to el greco, rembrant, cranach and others.

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Personnages rythmiques


Joan Miro, 1934, Oil on canvas

most majestic yet whimsical and mysterious in the whole of Miro's oeuvre. dusty atmostpheric ground that modulates from green to blue to brown and finally to orange float immaculate

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Recumbent Figure

 

Henry Moore, 1938, Elmwood

 

Surrealism and abstraction

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Homage to the Square

 

Josef Albers, 1961, Oil on board

nests of squares with subtly contracting hue and tone chosen to interact with other colors and thus induce sensations. did a whole series

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Composition

 

Hans Hofmann, 1942, Oil on board

german, the finished picture would evoke a sense of depth 

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Untitiled 

 

Lee Krasner, 1940, Oil on canvas

thick dark lines, expressive, much like miro.

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Agony

 

Arshile Gorky, 1947, oil on canvas

characteristic surrealist ambiguity of shape and automatist techniques highly personal style. Mixed references to male and female genitalia.

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Spring

 

Hans Hofmann, 1945, oil on panel

american avan-garde. invented technique of dripping and spraying paint onto surface. messed with tradtional fixed forms and mobile forms.

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Pink Angels

 

Willem de Kooning, 1945, Oil and charcoal on canvas

under the use of surrealist automatism, fragmented human forms so much that their explosive distortions and incompleteness recalled picasso's anatomies.

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Excavation

 

Willem de Kooning, 1950, Oil on canvas

wanted to combine cubism and surrealism into his own style like Gorky. removed color and worked with mostly black and white. anotomical parts so dismembered that they represent little more then abstract vectors of human meaning.

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Woman and Bicycle

 

Willem de Kooning, 1952-53, oil on canvas

abstract expressionism. cult following. use of color and going back to his roots of surrealism.

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Autumn Rhythm

 

Jackson Pollock, 1950, Oil on canvas

using drip method to create gloomy and morbid intuitions over a broad surface and to surrender most of his inner compulsions to a calm and measured lyricism.

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Vir Heroicus Sublimis

 

Barnett Newman, 1950-51, Oil on canvas

nervous spatial movement and calligraphic signs of Abstract Expressionist painting have been eliminated, and replaced, and absorbed by a complex pulsation of high-keyed color divded by 5 vertical lines.

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Maroon on Blue

 

Mark Rothko, 1957-60, Oil on canvas

most renowned of color field painters. stacks of glowing retangles, carried the idea of pure color abstraction.

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Red Earth

 

Adolph Gottlieb, 1959, oil on canvas

favors a tall and heraldic field, split between a flat, stained-in, glowing disk suspended above a spectacular display of broad, liberated brushwork.

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Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 34

 

Robert Motherwell, oil on canvas, 1953-54

interested in idea of life and death. light and dark, color and monochromy, evocative grand shapes of sweeping pigment.

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Painting

 

Clyfford Still, 1951, oil on canvas

strong pigmented colors and contrasts between the deep ink black and golden yellow.

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Cage

 

Herbert Ferber, 1954, lead

clutching tree roots or an imaginary crown of thorns.

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Cubi XVIII, XVII, XIX

 

David smith, stainless steel, 1964, 1963, 1954

structures allied to sculptural cubism. irregular contour

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Kouros

 

Isamu Noguchi, Pink Georgia marble, slate base, 1944-45

suave and fluent mastery of abstract idioms with surrealist overtones, creating interlocking systems of flattened biomorphic forms akin to those of miro.

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To Love

 

Isamu Noguchi, Rose Aurora and black porticoi marble, 1970

master of refined materials, using a wide veriety of carved stones whose surface produces strong feelings.

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Soap Bubble set

 

Josheph Cornell, Box construction, 1947-48

combines the formal austerities of constructivism with the fantasies of surrealism and utilizes suble painting and collage techniques.

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Women Combing her hair & The Montserrat

 

Julio Gonzalez ,1936, Wrought Iron

developed open welded iron construction using modern technology.

The Montserrat was sheet iron

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Figure & Mother and Child II

 

Jacques Lipchitz, bronze, 1926-30 & 1941-45 respectively

Figure is monstrous and compelling with hypnotically staring eyes, dominating its environment.

changed his style, swelling massive volumes with tumultuous shapes and a curving, complex flow of line

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Linear Construction, Variation & Construction for the Bijenkorf Department store

 

Naum Gabo, 1942 and 1954 respectively. 

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Composition no.2

 

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1924, woodcut

german man at the bauhaus, his influence was only second to gropius

 

Light-Space Modulator

 

1921-30, Mobile construction of steel, plastic, and wood

The first sculpture that moved and had active lights as part of it.

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Kinetic Construction: Vibrating Spring

 

Naum Gabo, 1920, Metal rod vibrating by means of a spring.

 

at the peak of kinetic art for sculptures.

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