Margo Alexander
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Margo Margolis"Night into Day" Playful Abstract Matisse Calder Quality Blue Yellow Black White, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Margo Margolis"Overview" Playful/Sophisticated Abstract Matisse Calder Quality Turquoise Pink , 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"All the Greens" Playful Abstract Dark, Light, Olive Green - Orange, Red, Yellow, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"Mapping the Day" Playful/Sophisticated Abstract Calder/Matisse-Like Pink/ Green, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Margo Margolis"White and Green" Playful/Sophisticated Abstract Matisse Calder Qualities Orange, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Monoprint
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Margo Margolis"Red/Yellow"Large Abstraction, Red, Yellow, Black, Cream, White, Pop Sensibility, 2017
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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1990s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Tempera
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Paintings
Watercolor
Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Sectional Sofas
Fabric, Plastic
Mid-20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Italian Classical Roman Barware
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century German Space Age Dinner Plates
Ceramic
2010s German Regency Revival Porcelain
Porcelain
Vintage 1980s German Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Ceramic, Porcelain
Vintage 1960s German Post-Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Vintage 1980s German Mid-Century Modern Crystal Serveware
Crystal
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Crystal
Late 18th Century Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Paintings
Canvas, Paint
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20th Century American Nautical Objects
Mahogany, Paint, Mirror
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
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Monoprint
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1990s Conceptual More Art
1980s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
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Margo Margolis is an American abstract artist and painter, born in 1947. She lives and works in New York and recently retired as Chairman of the Tyler School of Art’s Department of Painting and Sculpture, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her continuing commitment to abstraction is as fresh and invigorating as it was in the early 1970s, when she began exhibiting with the Brooke Alexander Gallery, in New York, where she had several shows. Margolis’s works have also been exhibited throughout the United States of America, at numerous galleries and institutions, including The Pennsylvania Academy of Art, The Renaissance Academy of Art, The Munson-Williams Proctor Institute and Halls Walls, among others.
A Close Look at abstract Art
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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